r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

You are approached by a business man who offers you a one time offer to be put in a Skinner box for a year.

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You will receive either $1000 a week or the amount of money you’re currently making per week, whichever is more.

But for 365 days you are kept in a literal Skinner box.

And what you are conditioned to do is entirely up to you at the beginning.

Learn a skill, become fit, write a book, learn a musical instrument, whatever.

It’s 100% up to you.

They will provide whatever resources you need to accomplish your goals, and will hire whoever you need to make sure you succeed.

When you go in that box, they will control your diet, your routines, and anything else they need to do to make sure you accomplish it.

You are given whatever rewards and punishments that are necessary but never cause any permanent harm.

And you may not opt out until the task is complete or the year is up.

This does not necessarily mean solitary confinement, as interactions with others could be one of your rewards.

What do you do it?


r/hypotheticalsituation 18h ago

Kill your family for a million dollars

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You have to kill the five family members you're closest to (Closest emotionally, not physically). Once you're done, time resets to the moment you accepted this offer, and you get the money. Only you will remember this happened. Your family will be fine, to them this never happened. But you're not allowed to tell them why you're killing them. You have to be in the same room as them and see them die when it happens. Time only resets when all five are dead. If you fail to kill all five, time will continue normally. If you die before all five are dead, time will continue normally. You can repeat this as many times as you want.


r/hypotheticalsituation 11h ago

Your friend told you that they cheated on their partner, what are you going to do?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 8h ago

You choose: One thing will cost $250 for life

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You are presented this deal. You get to choose one of several things that will cost at most $250. Things can still be less, but if you go to buy or pay for something, you have a special discount that will be applied so the price is $250. The catch is, if you buy something that costs way more, you cannot resell it. It is for your use only or for your immediate family, but they cannot own it. Here are the choices:

Medical care. Your current insurance, if you have it, is still in place. But if you develop cancer, or something else serious, all of the treatment for it would cost no more than $250. If you need long term care, $250. If you need a really expensive medication for a long period of time, $250. If you need extensive rehab, $250. This extends to your immediate family, children, spouse, parents.

Traveling. You can fly anywhere you want, or travel any way you want, and it will cost $250. First class ticket to Dubai? $250. However, this applies to just your travel. Your hotel, activities, food, etc are not part of this. But your travel from point A to point B is not going to cost more than $250.

Vacation. Just the reverse of above. Anywhere you travel to, your accomodations cannot cost more than $250. That doesn't mean you can be permanently on vacation. It is reasonable and the entity granting this will know what is and isn't reasonable. Luxury 5 star hotel? $250 total. This also applies to any Airbnb or anything like that. This doesn't count towards other costs of your vacation. If there are things included with your stay, like if it's all inclusive, that's fine.

Car. You can purchase any car you like and it will cost no more than $250. If you are married or something, you can gift one car to your spouse or SO. However you cannot own more than one car at a time. You cannot resell it or gift it to anyone but your SO. You are responsible for all gas, insurance, repairs, etc. If you want to get a new car, you have to wait 6 months before you can. Same rules apply for your SO, but you have to do it, they can't go buy it. If it breaks down in those 6 months, you have to pay for repairs.

Food. Any restaurant, grocery store, etc. You can go to the nicest, fanciest most exclusive restaurants, and your check will never exceed $250. You cannot host more than 3 other people. You have to pay and cannot accept money from your party of up to 3. It has to come from you. If you go to the grocery store, you can buy anything you want, but pay no more than $250. You can't resell anything you buy though. Or accept compensation in any other way.

This choice lasts for life and you get one chance at it. You cannot use your discount to profit or anyone close to you in any way. There's no loophole that allows you to. What is your choice?


r/hypotheticalsituation 4h ago

You are forced to start your life over from age 5, and the catch is this. You must be a high level pro athlete.

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If you do not, you are sent to a hell like dimension after death for eternity.

Here are the details. You will be given a completely healthy but otherwise average body for whatever sex/gender you choose to be. But staying injury free at that point is on you. No illness or issues your body if you had any before. And your body is now completely average. Height, weight, ECT... So no huge downside but no help there. (maybe you can add a few inches up or down above average... but keep it within 1-2 of average. No being 7 feet and joining the NBA as a cheat code.

To be considered a success you must either win an Olympic medal. Make a pro team at the highest level for at least 1 year total. If an individual sport, you must finish top 10 in your weight class or sport at least once at the highest level (it can be less in a more competitive sport... but you need to be good enough to be clearly a good pro who can make a good living).

It must be a sport that is reasonably well known AKA, not made up and one you can make a living wage at and sponsorships I suppose can count.

What is your plan?

Edit: To be clear... what constitutes high level i want to leave a little vague. But i want it to be more than just being a pro. For instant getting a boxing license and being a pro boxer doing 4 rounders shouldn't count.


r/hypotheticalsituation 15h ago

You have to pee

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You go to the bathroom and pee. But you wet yourself. You never went to the bathroom. It wasn't real. You wake up on the floor with a futuristic headset flashing bright lights into your eyes. An inhuman hand takes it off. That hand turns out to be yours. You look at the headset's display. It says "Human Simulator."

*What do you do?*


r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

2 billion but you have you gain all knowledge and truth in your puny human brain

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That’s it, 2 billion for eating the whole apple. You gain all knowledge and truth. Your only risks is insanity because everyone around you appear “dumb.” And your stuck in 2025 where we are pre Idiocracy(movie)


r/hypotheticalsituation 12h ago

Sex No pain no gain

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You can relive the worst pain in your balls/worst menstrual cramps you've ever felt in exchange for 1 point. You can put this point in any skill of yours (skill, not status, so there is no way to increase your resistance to pain) and it will make you +1x better at that (which means that the first time your skill will double, the second time your skill will triple compared to how you were before the first time, etc.). You can do this as many times as you want, but you can only go through it again after the last pain is completely gone.

The pain will instantly be applied to you without any real physical harm. Even if you no longer have your gonads and uterus you will feel the pain as if you had them. No type of painkiller, doping, massage, medicine, position, compress, or anything similar will work, NOTHING. You will also be unable to remain unconscious while experiencing pain. But the pain will pass at its natural pace for its intensity. Every time you do this the pain will double in intensity compared to the last time you did it. If you have never felt pain related to your sex, the first time you do this you will feel the average pain that people feel.

The only way to activate pain is at the moment of the act consciously, that is, with the clear thought of "right now I'm going to feel pain"

What would you do with that?


r/hypotheticalsituation 7h ago

Trolley Problems [no loopholes] Three men are about to fall to their deaths, you can only save one of them

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There are three buttons, the moment you touch one, the other two become inoperable.

Upon use, a metal floor will appear, allowing the chosen to go free, the other two will roast alive (they are over a pit of fire)

Man 1: carries with him an endless water bottle, always stays cold, can contain anything you currently need or desire to drink. Mimics the taste, carbs and flavor. One drink can stop dehydration, two drinks can sate hungry bellies.

Man 2: carries a laptop with a word processor that can rewrite reality. You can stop, remove, edit or rewrite portions of your life or someone else's life. Never runs out of battery. Immediately stops working if written in such a way as to commit evil (rewrite world war II so that the Nazis won, creating a racist friendly state etc) or desire to bring it about (for instance, if your grandpa was part of the SS and you want him revived, it will stop working permanently. The computer will go up in a mushroom cloud and take you with it if anything involving children is written for malicious intent. Automatically go to hell, do not collect $200.

Man 3: a purse with infinite space, that always contains what you need immediately and cannot be stolen (vanishes upon being stolen), sold ( can't be captured on camera, invisible to all scanning technology and is illegal to sell on eBay or Amazon) or destroyed (made out of mithril leather)

Who do you save and why

Clarification: using the laptop counts as a loophole.


r/hypotheticalsituation 9h ago

How long would you go without cleaning your body for $10K a day?

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  • You would still have to go about your normal life, you can’t lock yourself inside all day.
  • You cannot take a shower or bath of any kind, this also includes using baby wipes to wipe your yourself.
  • You cannot use environmental substitutes such as washing yourself with the rain.

Once you accept this challenge, it starts the next day, and when you quit the money immediately gets transferred to your bank.


r/hypotheticalsituation 22h ago

Escape an active volcano using a lava lamp, or saving yourself.

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You’re trapped in an active volcano. You have an indestructible lava lamp jar. You also have natural climbing skills. The volcano will erupt in 1 hour, in which you must escape. The volcano will not erupt if you make the lava lamp or climb out. If you choose to make a lava lamp, you have to make the lava lamp function using real lava. I didn’t give you a working lava lamp, just a jar for one that can’t be broken or lost. You do have the other materials necessary, but it’s not in parts like your normal ikea furniture. It’s literally just big squares of the material. Do you climb out, or make the lava lamp? Remember, the volcano will erupt in 1 hour killing you if you’re still inside.


r/hypotheticalsituation 13h ago

Would you accept:

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Super speed (sprinting something like 100m in 5s, running a 40 minute marathon) BUT you get a deviated septum that lowers your oxygenation and can’t be reversed. You’ll be very tired doing any exercise for any length of time, and unless you do suffer through it you’ll loose your fitness and likely end up less fit than you are now. Let’s assume there’s no fame or fortune to be gained from winning races etc.


r/hypotheticalsituation 17h ago

Money $1 million daily ethically or $10 million daily evily?

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You’re given an option between 2 ways of making money. Which would you rather?

Option 1 - The Sin Tax: Every day at the end of the day you get $1 million deposited into your bank account, however, every time you break one of 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony or sloth), no matter the severity, the amount deposited into your bank account halves. This tax stacks with each time you sin during the day with no limit. A sin counts as anything you consciously act upon and choose to disobey, unconscious and passing thoughts don’t count unless you act upon them. Every day it resets and you start with the potential to earn $1,000,000 again.

Option 2 - The Evil List: Every day you are given 8 new tasks on a todo list that get progressively more and more evil. Every task completed increases the money you receive by tenfold with a limit up to $10 million a day. The $1 task starts off simple with something like telling a lie to someone and the final $10 million task is something like killing an innocent family of 4. A more moderate task around $10,000 would be something like convincing someone to do something that will actively harm them or stealing an item of high value. After completing the task, the money is deposited immediately into your bank account. If an item is not completed or completed partially, you do not receive the reward for completing the task. Every day at 12 AM according to your time zone, the todo list refreshed and you are given 8 new tasks.


r/hypotheticalsituation 13h ago

Your truck is one of the autobots. it transforms and then pulls the sword from the stone becoming king of England. Now what?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

If you woke up in a bed naked next to Morgan freeman, what will you do?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 18h ago

A genie offers to create items for you which have not been made for some reason (or have been made in small quantities or with dubious quality, etc)

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to start: no future tech, nothing sci-fi, nothing fringe or cutting-edge, nothing fantasy or magical... no loopholes. items that could easily be made with the technology and knowledge of today or the past, with components that similarly have or could already be made, just in configurations nobody did because low market demand or too expensive for the use-case, etc.

Also, nothing you want just to sell, and nothing of high value or big size. no asking for houses or cars... however, if you have them, you CAN ask for unmade or uncommonly-made features/addons/modifications FOR your house or car.

One simple example is: you can tell the genie you want (insert flagship phone model here) but with a lower screen resolution. you dont need such high resolution on such a small screen, and less pixels to light up means less battery draw.

Another example: an electric bicycle with a number of rare features not many companies make (or the quality is uncertain for the ones who do) such as front-wheel electric motor, or hub/sprocket motor... even if less useful or less efficient, thats what YOU want for whatever your reasons are (and i have my reasons for wanting this, and much more specifics on the bike i want, too :-P )

or that BOSE suspension for your car.... etc.

You can ask for as many things as you want. what items do you want or have you wanted, that market demand or production costs have screwed you on?


r/hypotheticalsituation 23h ago

Will you let your clone bang love of your life ?

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Yeah I just read this scenario

Main charachter wife struggle to raise his child,Our MC can't be with her.So he made clone for her.It's pretty weird even tho that is your clone.

It still mean someone banging your wife

The rule are:

1.Your partner didn't mind banging your clone because for their opinion,the clone are not different from you

2.You really love each other

3.Refusing mean your partner will find another human but bigger chance their will live alone until die.

Forgotten rule: You will leave your partner.There will be no contact anymore.(But in that book,MC get to watch them love each other [the MC clone and her wife] )

So what will you do in this situation?


r/hypotheticalsituation 11h ago

You're offered $250 million to let Batman beat you up.

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You need to commit a small crime like jaywalking first. Batman will give you the worst beating of your life. You'll be in a coma for one month, then spend 10 years slowly recovering from severe injuries and brain damage.

During recovery, you'll be paralyzed but gradually regain the ability to walk. After 10 years, you'll be completely healed and magically become 18 years old again with a perfect healthy healed body. A billionaire of the name Bruce Wayne will pay all your medical bills and give you $250 million. (This is an offer you can refuse)

Batman would become real and all of DC basically if you accept this deal.


r/hypotheticalsituation 8h ago

if any person could be revived from the dead, objectively speaking who would be the best person to use it on?

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like if you only had 1 chance to use it on someone

best person is pretty subjective, but in my mind since its such a rare thing to revive someone there must be a "best person" to use it on


r/hypotheticalsituation 15h ago

You're going on vacation

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You were planning on taking your immediate family on an annual vacation, but you wanted to also take a close friend, Emma. Emma's a winged angel and has served in the Angel Corps for over 200 years. She was born into servitude with death being the only escape. Emma rose to legendary status, but still witnessed the horrors of war over and over again. She lost countless of her sisters in war—discovering many of their bodies herself and piecing together the horrors they suffered at the hands of sadistic demons.

But recently, Emma was freed from service when the Angel Corps became a volunteer organization. She immediately retired. She found herself stuck, though. Life as a public servant is all she's ever known. Slowly but surely, she's been adjusting to civilian life. You think this vacation would be perfect for her, and she agrees to go with you. There's a problem, though. Emma can't can't fit in the car.

She can definitely get in there, but her wings make it impossible for her to put her back against a seat. All things considered, her wings aren't very large—going from her jaw to her lower pelvis. This is also why she can't fly. With some trial and error, she's able to fit somewhat comfortably in the middle of the back seats. She can't fasten her seatbelt and no one can sit beside her, but she's in the car.

Emma doesn't mind the discomfort and still wants to go, but she doesn't want to be a burden. She agrees to stay behind if it's too much trouble. You'll have to make a choice. You can bring Emma and one other guest, or you can leave her behind and go with your family as originally intended.

*What do you do?*


r/hypotheticalsituation 23h ago

Reducing The World Population By 1 Billion

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Aliens show up and announce that will grant us knowledge of nuclear fusion and cancer cures, but only if we are able to reduce the population on Earth by 1 billion in one year's time. If we are not able to accomplish the task, all human life will cease to exist. You have been put in charge of deciding the best course of action.

You have been given an army of drones that will protect you as well as give you access to any electric system in the world. Foreign languages will be translated as needed. The drones can kill, but there are not enough of them to fulfill the task in the time allotted. They are mainly the enforcers to your directives.

They provide a location tracker for every human on the planet as a way of knowing what the current population is in real time as well as a way to see who might be hiding. Once the reduced number is reached, the information will be shared. For example, if the starting population is 9 billion, the instant the population reaches 8 billion, the task is over even is 10 children are born a second later.

As a show of their power and as extra incentive, they move Ceres into orbit around Mars.

EDIT: Reduce the human population by 1 billion. You are the one to oversee the project, so you are the one who approves who dies and how. The drones can be used to force governments to implement your decision either by killing the leaders, or falsifying orders/failsafes on weapons.

Surprised I haven't seen what proposals there are for what to do with a billion dead bodies that would occur in a year.


r/hypotheticalsituation 5h ago

Money You’re playing a game of chess and are in a position where you can take your opponents queen for free, and your opponent tells you that they will give you $1,000,000,000 if you don’t take their queen and that they will release a bioweapon on the world if you take their queen

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For those who don’t know how to play chess, your queen is generally your most powerful piece, and in most cases it’s advantageous if you have your queen and your opponent doesn’t. There are exceptions to this, but in this scenario you’re not in an exception to this, in terms of the game, as you can take their queen for free, and while you can’t yet see a sequence of moves that leads to checkmating your opponent you will most likely win soon after if you take your opponents queen.

Your opponent tells you that if you don’t take their queen then after the game they will give you $1,000,000,000, and they tell you that they have a bio weapon and if you take their queen then they will release the bio weapon upon the world and this bio weapon will completely wipe out humanity. If you try asking your opponent why you should believe them they say, “Trust me bro.”

Do you take your opponents queen because their claim seems unbelievable or not take it because you don’t want to risk having the bio weapon released and are hoping that they honor their promise of giving you the $1,000,000,000?


r/hypotheticalsituation 3h ago

You are given three wishes, but after using them you will start your life over with no memories. The wishes will be granted in your new life. You will never know.

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The genie is GENUINELY on your side, there will be no tricks. The only stipulations are the wishes must seem plausibly real to your new self (so no superpowers or anything physically impossible, but you could wish to be a rich ultra-attractive super genius or something).

Any negative consequences from the wishes will still happen, for example if you wish for your new family to be rich, they may end up leaving you with nothing. You could also grow to be a worse person. For any unused wishes the genie will pick for you and use his own judgement to better your life, and you WILL be starting over no matter what you do.

If you try to use any loopholes to get more wishes, seemingly impossible things, or even keep your memories, it MIGHT work depending on the method... but then the genie will switch to malicious compliance mode and try to ruin your new life, so tread carefully!

What wishes do you make?


r/hypotheticalsituation 6h ago

You have a rough day while out of town in bumf*ck nowhere. You stop at a local watering hole for some sh*twater beer. As you enter there’s two guys dragging a body to the door…

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One of the guys says “Took you long enough!” Angry. “Come grab this end and tell us what to do with this piece of sh*t. I ain’t never had to disappear a body before. Tell us what you want us to do.”

What are you gonna do?


r/hypotheticalsituation 22h ago

You are contacted by a tv producer to participate as a contestant in a new reality tv show known as Winter Hunt, what would be your strategy to win the show?

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In this reality show, you and other 15 contestants will compete and live in a snowy envviromment for 38 days in order to gain a initial $500k money prize (that will get bigger as the game goes)

How the game works:

You will live inside a warm and comfortable cabin, ideal for strategizing and resting, but every week you and your colleagues will go out into the harsh cold to hunt for suitcases filled with money that are hidden in under the snow, the money you find will be added to the big prize, If the cast manage to get all suitcases the prize If $500k turns into a big prize of 1,5 million dollars.

Every two weeks there will be a challenge that tests your physique , mind and general endurance to gain a power in the game - immunity which you can give to yourself or another player, after this challenge the participants will vote on one of them to eliminate and go back home early but there's also another risk...a eliminated participant can choose to take the money they found with them while hunting, decreasing the prize to their non-eliminated contestants

EDIT: I forgot to add what will happen in the final.

Like in Survivor, you will get judged by a jury made out of other eliminated players who will vote among the finalists.

Now, what would you do?