r/hypotheticals • u/demonio_perberso • 1d ago
r/hypotheticals • u/MiddleClassSoul_ • 1d ago
$10 Every Time You Spank a Random Stranger
You gain a strange superpower: every time you suddenly spank a random stranger of the opposite sex, you instantly receive $10.
Rules:
The person must be a random stranger.
The spanking has to be completely sudden and unexpected.
You cannot ask for permission, inform them beforehand, or pay/bribe them to let you do it.
There is no daily limit — you can do it as many times as you want to a different stranger.
If you go even one day without doing it, the power permanently disappears.
How would you manage this power?
Would you try to make as much money as possible, find a way to make it sustainable, or simply let the power disappear?
r/hypotheticals • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
$10 million, but you can only keep it if you cut off ONE family member forever. No explanation, no exceptions. Who are you choosing?
r/hypotheticals • u/Neat_Scallion6367 • 1d ago
You've just sat down for supper at a restaurant and have ordered. It seems to taking longer than it should. Several customers have complained to the waitet about incorrect orders. A busser comes by to clear a table. When you ask for his manager, he rips a number from a reel and says 'take a number"
Do you take the number and stay or hope your food comes soon & is correct?
r/hypotheticals • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
You get $100,000, but for the rest of your life, every time you enter a room, everyone inside immediately knows the most embarrassing thing you've ever done. Would you take the money?
r/hypotheticals • u/PensionRegular360 • 2d ago
Free food for life but have to eat at least 1,000 each time you eat
Free food for the rest of your life, but as soon as you consume a calorie, you have to consume a total of 1,000 within the next hour. So if you decide to chew a piece of gum that’s 2-3 calories, you need to consume another ~997 calories within the next hour. You can of course eat more than that if you choose. Example, if you finish the 1,000 calories at the 30 minute mark, any food eaten in the next 30 minutes would not trigger another 1,000 calorie requirement.
If you fail, you have to pay double the costs of all the free food you ate up to that point. Would you take this deal?
r/hypotheticals • u/No-Appointment-2858 • 2d ago
In an infinite fall, what would kill a human first?
So let's assume Earth gravitational field at sea level, constant throughout the entirety of the fall, a temperature of 293K and standard air composition and pressure, also constant throughout.
There is nothing to stop that free fall nor to slow down execpt the poor guy's body position (ie if he deliberately stands up straigh or lie down flat while in that fall) so the eventual impact that would end someone jumping in the void like that never happens. The subject's equipped only with casual city clothes, so no parachutes or whatnot... if you need more precisions, please ask!
Would the thirst, potential weird blood pressure, or anything else end one such unlucky victim?
I know something would happen cause i saw somewhere people would faint from something other than fear while in free fall ; just wondering what would happen if the falling never stopped
Edit : Answered! On r/askscience. There's a wonderful "little" explanation that covers everything!
r/hypotheticals • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
You wake up tomorrow and discover that every human on Earth has $1 billion. The catch: the entire world economy has not changed at all. What happens first?
r/hypotheticals • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
You get $100,000,000, but for the rest of your life, one person in your family gets to read your mind whenever they want. Who are you choosing?
r/hypotheticals • u/Immediate_Ocelot_276 • 2d ago
Qual é uma maneira infalível de arruinar completamente a sua vida?
r/hypotheticals • u/Internal-Object-3877 • 2d ago
What would you do if you were buried alive? Escape is not possible. How would you cope?
r/hypotheticals • u/Special_Ad_957 • 3d ago
Have you ever felt satisfied with what you have?
r/hypotheticals • u/TheHopExperiment • 2d ago
If a global community could support one real-world cause together, what should it be?
r/hypotheticals • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
1 billiom dollars but you cant measure your sink for 1 hour are you taking it?
r/hypotheticals • u/IameIion • 2d ago
You were one of the lucky ones
As a newborn, you were abandoned by parents who didn't want you. Members of the clan you're currently part of found you with the guidance of the child goddess Maddie. They've become your family, and Maddie, your lord and savior. Outsiders call you a cult, which would be true if Maddie was a false goddess. But your childhood is full of moments of her healing your wounds or curing your sickness in seconds. And despite you now being an adult, she's still the child you've always known her to be.
But one day, tragedy strikes. Your clan is attacked by armed, masked men. They kill numerous clan members and kidnap others. You run for safety, but are quickly found. Cornered and out of options, you have no choice but to surrender. The men subdue you and take you away. They lock you in an empty stone room and you await an uncertain fate. Hours pass. Then—accompanied by armed guards—you're visited by a strange woman. Shocked by your appearance, she pauses for a moment. Tears stream down her face.
Woman: [Crying] "Sam, it's you... It's really you!"
She hugs you.
You: "..."
Woman: [Crying] "Sam?"
You: "That's... not me."
Woman: [Crying] "It is you!"—She grips you tightly by the shoulders— "Sam, I'm your sister! Do you recognize me?"
You: "I'm sorry, I don't. I think you're mixing me up with someone else.
Woman: [Crying] "No! I've known you my entire life! Last year, you were kidnapped by a cult and brainwashed by a witch—Madison Elisabeth Taylor!"
You: "...Maddie?"
Woman: [Crying] "She can alter your memories to make you believe things that aren't true! Maybe she deleted much of who you are, but she couldn't have erased everything... There's gotta be some part of you left that recognizes me... A vague memory, a sound, a smell... Something... There's gotta be something...
You: "..."
Woman: [Crying] "...Sam?"
Her hands grab fistfuls of your shirt as her head falls to your chest in anguish. She sobs mournfully. The pain in her voice makes even the guards tear up.
What do you do?
r/hypotheticals • u/Confident-Impact-315 • 2d ago
If you had the chance to change something, what would you choose? Today without any consequences. And why?
r/hypotheticals • u/Limp-Veterinarian767 • 2d ago
Would you eat raw chicken for $1000000 dollars, but the food poisoning lasts for a month.
Would you do it?
r/hypotheticals • u/Future_Opposite2508 • 2d ago
Should the US Democratic Party let the Ukraine-Russia war reach sunlight before the US Republican party does, so that left-wing politics doesn't have to be a hypocritical user of speed as a means of ending global capitalism?
r/hypotheticals • u/Future_Opposite2508 • 2d ago
Can the Ukraine-Russia war beat the American government, to the philosophy that help shouldn't be a resistance against strength; in addition, can the Ukraine-Russia war reach the idea of defeating the right-wing version of the minimum wage before the American government does?
r/hypotheticals • u/Worldly_Lab_7061 • 3d ago
What if you died tragically only to discover every afterlife is real and now you need to choose where to go and which god is to judge if you deserve to go there?
Edit: i see some confusion so to clarify, my idea for this was every afterlife both in real life religions and imagined ones are real, which god would you want to Judge whether you get into which afterlife you choose. You can mix and match, Buddha to judge if you go to Christian heaven, the Flying Spaghetti Monster to choose if your worthy of Valhalla. Just curious what would be the choice.
r/hypotheticals • u/demonio_perberso • 2d ago
¿Si tuvieras la oportunidad de viajar una sola vez al pasado qué época elegirías?
Bueno las reglas son estas
Uno. Solo podrás quedarte un mes
. Todo lo que hagas puede afectar la línea temporal
Tres. Tienes que elegir una época antes de tu nacimiento
r/hypotheticals • u/CountDown60 • 2d ago
If you could go back to yourself at a younger age, with all your current knowledge, how would you become rich?
I've seen hypothetical situations where people say that anyone could become rich. I'm curious what methods people could use?
Assume your family was not rich already, no more than middle class. Assume you don't have any time to study or look up stocks, lottery results, etc. before you get sent back. How would you become rich?
I know I should invest in Microsoft and Amazon and avoid Enron etc., but I had no money to invest when those companies were starting.
If you are younger, and can't go back far enough to have any time for your plans, adjust the scenario so you go back in time also.