Would you be willing to drive a maximum speed of 10 MPH, if you knew it would save over a million lives per year, worldwide?

[Anonymous]

This is a hypothetical question. This is NOT really happening. In the real world only about 50% of the population are capable of answering a hypothetical question. On GAG it's more like 5-10% of the population that are capable of answering a hypothetical question.

If you struggle with a question like this, then please click, here:

What is your favorite Jelly Bean flavor?

Yes, I care about the lives of others

No, I'm willing to sacrifice the lives of others

Updates

+1 y

Only ONE person on this thread had the creative insight and intelligence to see past the surface of this question and see that this is about Covid-19, vaccinations and masks. Only ONE person. I'm really shocked. I thought at least three people would get it, but I was wrong.

He nailed this question within a minute after I posted it. Others went on about walking, biking, horseback riding and one guy said there wasn't data to support that slow speeds were safer than fast speeds. LOL

[MysteriousDarkness]

No because it would take too long to get places. Getting to my parents takes around 30 minutes now would end up taking 1hr 36mins to get to going 10mph at most nonstop meaning no stopoing for traffic lights, stop signs etc.
It would take my girlfriend around 2½ times longer to get to work. It would be 13 to work and home working 5 days a week. Each day it takes her 30mins to get to work and 1hr to get home. Tgat would be 7½hrs so it would take another 5½hrs round tripe per work week if going 10mph. That is goi g 13 mikes yo work and 13 miles back home.
Those are just two examples why traveling no more than 10mph woild be ridiculous.

[Asker]

What if someone said you were selfish just like a non-vaxxer?

[Curmudgeon]

This is a good point. And it applies to the current Red China COVID-19 flu, in spades. The facts are that the overwhelming numbers of people will recover from this, and grinding the economy to a halt with ill considered "lockdowns" has actually harmed and will continue to actually harm more people - in terms of HEALTH - than just prudently managing the situation.

[Asker]

MHO.

[Asker]

It's been five hours and you were the ONLY one smart enough to connect the dots.

Shit, I've got people walking, biking, and even riding horses. LOL What the fuck?

[Curmudgeon]

It IS Sad, isn't it? Did people really not understand your parable?

[Asker]

I wasn't meaning to be mean when I posted in the description the link to the jelly bean question. I just knew that no one would be able to catch what I thought was a slow pitch. You shocked me when you nailed if within minutes.

That one guys is going to get more than one horse so he can go faster!! Brilliant!

This is hot off the press...

Which of these GAG-type answers would be your favorite? "I'm going to France in December. For those who've been there, what sights should I see? ↗

[Asker]

79% of the people are not willing to inconvenience themselves to save a million lives each year. LOL

My experiment was a success.

[Apple1996]

No thatd be so slow and nobody would ever get anywhere/also would waste gas.

[Asker]

Saving gas is more important than saving lives?

[Apple1996]

I dont think that would actually save any lives. If you ever drove on a highway then youd understand that going that slow would probably cause a accident

[Asker]

Brilliant point.

[Paris13]

@Iron_Man No horsing around. I am Riding Shotgun now. lol!!! xx

[Iron_Man]

Lol…

[PlacentaSalad]

50% of the "real world" are incapable of answering hypothetical questions because 50% of the real world are smart enough to understand that hypothetical questions are pointless, and dumb. In fact, 99% of hypothetical questions are logically impossible and cogitate on permutations that did not happen or never will happen, so counterfactual definite propositions are a major waste of our time. It's pointless to posit outcomes that only could have occurred if reality had been different than it actually was.

Why don't you tell me how different the world would be if Boeing's X-32 won the JSF contract? Who really knows. There's no point in even thinking about it.

So no, I'd drive over 10 MPH and hope you were one of the million people who met their demise just because you thought it was a good idea to ask a question like this. It's cleverly disguised but poorly phrased as are all hypothetical questions.

[Asker]

What a whining bitch. You had to waste your time saying all of that about something you think is pointless? You must have mental issues.

[ToastyOats]

We need more people dying not less! I would suggest building colosseums throughout the country where men can volunteer to fight to the death, People convicted of serious crimes can be thrown into 1000 acre enclosures out west to form their own primitive anarchist societies, high speed highways with extra curves and vaguely defined lanes and of course, lots of vaccines. Its time we start being more badass and embrace eugenic culling! Not some namby pamby nanny state coddling that only exacerbates overpopulation and Human Supremacy. Time for dolphin on human death matches, no guns no clothes!

[doe9de]

No just simply because you can run faster than 10 miles an hour or even bike. So If I couldn't drive faster then 10 miles an hour I wouldn't drive at all.

[Asker]

That works.

[Shamalien]

I think 30k (the school zone speed) would accomplish the same thing and allow us to still get places in reasonable time. 10mph is too fking slow, I would NOT be willing. Now if it was 30k for cars and unlimited for bikes, electric scooters, small one man transports, I’d be more open to it.

[Asker]

So you voted, no?

[Shamalien]

correct

[Jamie05rhs]

30mph would not allow anyone to get anywhere in any reasonable amount of time. Maybe 40.

[Anonymous]

I'd give up driving completely if I knew it would save over a million lives.

Do you know how rare it is to save a million lives? How is that even a question?

What psychopath would say "kill millions - I got places to be and I must do the driving"

[andreasderjuengere]

I am - hypothetically - willing to reduce my own comforts when it has an overall positive result.
My - hypothetical - mental struggle is: how many of the one million who were saved would deserve to be saved?

[Asker]

Same with the vaccine?

[andreasderjuengere]

:) I don't beg for a vaccine. But I have no fears about conspiracies ( :D ) or side effects.
I am a little skeptical if the vaccines are as efficient as we need them, but I don't find them more ''dangerous'' than Covid itself. My turn will be some time in late August - ''we'' are a little behind schedule here.
To refuse cooperation in this present mess is like a kid having a tantrum in the supermarket, because Mom does not buy the sweets that were demanded.

[Asker]

That's what they said about thalidomide.


Don't refuse the drug like a kid in the store, just take it. All will be well. I promise.

[andreasderjuengere]

Vaccines are not sold over the counter. But I see your concerns.
The good news: I don't plan to be pregnant any time soon.

[Jamie05rhs]

Fuck no. Then no one would ever get anything done.

That's also why I do not support any more lockdowns.

[Anonymous]

I don't think that question applies to us here in London. The average speed now is only 11 mph

[oddwaffle]

None of those guys are doing anything to me. Why would I want to help them?

[Asker]

How did you vote?

[oddwaffle]

No, obviously.

Selfish? Maybe but who isn't really selfish. Or a lot of African people wouldn't starve by now.

[red324]

No because gunshot deaths would people equal that number

[Iron_Man]

That’s like a school zone that is absolutely ridiculous I’d rather ride a horse if it was like that

[Paris13]

Heee Haw!!! Denny's has Straw and All. lol!!! xxoo

[Asker]

How did you vote?

[Iron_Man]

I didn’t Nobody Is going to get hurt at that super low speed

[Asker]

That's kind of the point.

[Iron_Man]

You’ll never get anywhere going that slow why put all that money into a car when I can get a horse that can move faster than that? Or I can get a buggy Full of horses, You’ve seen those western movies they can fly

[Asker]

Even with 10 horses, the speed limit is still 10 mph.

[Iron_Man]

Well I’ll break that Speed limit and I’ll take my horse away from other people and go 25 mph running

[Paris13]

Lol!!! xxoo

[Iron_Man]

@Paris13 xoxo

[OddBeMe]

I do follow scientific advice even if it only helps others. Like recycling. Doesn’t do me any tangible good now. But science has convinced me of future good.

[najekim]

Nope. The Human race is always in the need of culling, so faster then betting. Hell, people hated when it was only 55mph on the freeways.

[Asker]

Which is why they shouldn't have made a vaccine. I agree with you.

[exitseven]

No, I like to drive fast.

[sponge-bob]

10 mph might as well just walk or ride a bike

[Asker]

That can be arranged.

[sponge-bob]

Cool I need a new bike can I get one of those bikes with the fat tires?

[Asker]

Yes, but they only sell them on the beaches of California.

[sponge-bob]

no not beach bikes. they look like this www.trekbikes.com/.../

[Asker]

Get it tomorrow

[sponge-bob]

your so nice to me

[Sketti2021]

A...

[Asker]

Good

[PaleCymr]

I walk for this reason 😂.

[JesseJayNeak]

If that were the case, I'd be better walking

[Anonymous]

fuck those assholes. they should all die

[Black-Pepper]

I don’t get it

[Asker]

It's complicated.

[Black-Pepper]

Can you simplify it for me?

[Asker]

I did better than that, I voted for you.

[Black-Pepper]

You can’t vote for me on here