Would You Rather

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Welcome to c/WouldYouRather, where we present you with the toughest, most ridiculous choices you never knew you had to make! Would you rather have a third arm that's only useful for picking your nose, or be able to talk to animals but only if they're wearing hats? Yeah, it's that kind of vibe. Come for the absurdity, stay because you've clearly got nothing better to do with your life.

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WYR be able to read and speak every language fluently but never be able to leave your home, or be able to travel for free to any place on Earth but be unable to read or write? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by HammyMcBurgers@sh.itjust.works to c/wouldyourather@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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In scenario 1, if you change homes you can move between them to transport your property, but you cannot leave once you're settled in. You can only move once every 15 years. The deal also includes programming languages, conlangs, extinct languages, and alien languages if contact with them ever occurs.

In scenario 2, you forget how to read overnight and are never able to learn it again for any language. All travel fees and gas money is free and you may also enter restricted areas like military bases. If the technology for far space travel is invented within your lifetime, you may also go there. If you are ever imprisoned, you can walk out of the facility unharmed.

In both scenarios you live to be 95.

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[–] evthestrike@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Scenario 2. Id travel around and learn to speak new languages, and I would hire a scribe to read and write for me

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I choose scenario 2. I've met people that couldn't write or read and they had a pretty good life.

Also if I'm travelling to places where I don't know the language there wouldn't be much of a difference, I just need people to tag along for a free trip and do the reading for me.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In scenario 1, can I still go out into my yard?

Eh, probably scenario 1 either way. I can spend the next 15 years making bank doing translations of books I want to read anyway. Maybe get a little academic clout working with dead languages. Make enough to build a house with a nice waterfront view, with a few acres of forest if I can go in the yard.

When I get bored of translations, I can try software development. Being fluent in every programming language should make me pretty productive.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's tough, I'm inclined to go with the first one but I'd definitely have to invest in the best VR setup possible. On the second one, is there a set amount of time between travels, or can you be a nomad and live for free? Would food be included as a travel expense?

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Shit, I don't leave the house unless there's no other choice as it is

[–] Brekky@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If I live in an apartment complex can I use the facilities?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

So in scenario 2 if your in some place your not normally supposed to be are you going to get in trouble? Are people going to yell at you or as part of it your just known to have an all access pass and they all just accept it. Can I do things anywhere and it was be as acceptable and allowed as if I did it in the privacy of my own home?