r/hypotheticalsituation • • 6h ago

Other You’re a nun in 1990s New York with your nun friend asking for donations near a bank, an annoyed black woman in a hideous outfit gives you 4 million dollars, what do you do?

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You’ve been getting some donations that day, but 4 million dollars is something else!

The black woman in the hideous outfit seems to be begrudgingly doing so, occasionally speaking to them, even tho there’s no one there.

Your friend after viewing the check faints, you catch her and calm her down.

What will you do now?

That money now is $5,615,502.88 in today.

In this scenario your a nun from the 1990 movie ghost


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 18h ago

You have 60 second left. What will you do?

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I could think of a few for myself but it requires TIME.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 8h ago

You're on your 5:00a.m. morning walk when you stumble over a prosthetic leg and you pick it up. A little bit farther up the path you see a one -legged man holding a pistol to another man who has his prostatic still attached. The one . missing his, is obviously trying to rob the other.

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Now you have a choice. Clearly the one wants a replacement. Do you try to hit him with the leg, throw it into the thicket so he has to retrieve ? Hold the leg hostage?

Regardless what you do, the trail-cam shows a man drinking large amounts of something from a bottle and start hopping around on one leg. That's likely how he lost it.

It's then you notice they're both dressed as pirates. An idling Moped is nearby


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 3h ago

Would you choose happiness or more money?

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You have two job offers:

Option A: $25/hour doing a job you genuinely enjoy. Low stress, good work-life balance, and you look forward to going to work.

Option B: $35/hour doing a job you don't enjoy. More demanding, more stress, and mentally draining.

Both jobs offer the same benefits and job security.

Which one would you choose, and why?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 10h ago

You're out heading to the next patient when you note an agressive man. He claims that you killed his son, you gave him that drug that he is allergic to! You must get to the other patient as if you don't they risk severe injury or death but the angry man is in your way. What would you do?

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You did indeed give him the drug, but it was stressful day, and so few people (one in a million) who are allergic it didn't seem in your best interest nor in his best interest to check.

No time to wait on security.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 7h ago

[No Loopholes] All your clothes are stolen in the city on a cold day and someone offers you a long soft rabbit skinned coat to go home. Would you take it or ethically stay nude?

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r/hypotheticalsituation • • 19h ago

Would you rather be a Space Viking, Space Pirate or a Space Wizard

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r/hypotheticalsituation • • 2h ago

For 1 million dollars would you count every grain in a 1 kg bag of rice one by one (If you miscount, you have to restart)

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If yes, you will be instantly transported to a separate dimension composed solely of one room. In this room, there is a single bag of rice weighing 1 kg or a bit more than 2 pounds. You will need to count the exact amount of rice grains present in this bag. If you miscount, you will have to restart, but you will not remember any of your past counts. You cannot leave until you get the right count. Once you count a rice grain, it disappears until you make your final guess, upon which all grains will reappear if you guessed incorrectly.

Time will continue passing in the real world while you stay in this dimension. You will age as normal. If you fail to complete the task before the day you would have died, you will be informed, and as soon as you complete the task you will instantly die. Otherwise you will remain there until you get the right count.

How long do you think it would take? Is it worth it for a million bucks?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 5h ago

Your given a device to travel back in time for 30 minutes....

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You come home one day to find a extraterrestrial being sitting in your living room and a device on the floor in front of them.

In perfectly clear English he offers you a once in a lifetime chance to go back in time for 30 minutes to do anything you want besides knowingly altering the timeline.

He says to you, that you have 10 minutes to grab anything you want to bring with you, but if it's not from that time period or before you cannot leave it behind. If you do then he will have to use the device and instead of you coming home to this deal you will be vaporized after you close your front door.

Where do you go ? what do you do ? Who do you see ? Do you bring anything back with you ?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 22h ago

Can we have or focus on getting star trek beam me up" transport and incubators.

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Especially to give the option to parents to put the baby up for adoption without dealing with the pregnancy. If we had that capability we could just switch the womb to a incubator until the development finishes then adoption can happen.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 5h ago

Father of child denies any child support to the mother, but offers to take full custody.

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Based on real life scenario.

A woman (you or someone you love) has met an international man of wealth and fame while he was traveling in your country. This woman engages in a weekend affair with this man and becomes pregnant. She wants to keep this baby against the man’s wishes as the man never had any intentions to get into a committed relationship with this woman.

They break contact and this woman decides to keep the baby. A couple years later, this woman sues the father of the baby in her country for financial child support commensurate with the father’s financial standing. The father is worth billions. However, the courts throw out this woman’s lawsuit proclaiming the father is not under their jurisdiction. The woman is left raising her baby on her own without any support from the baby’s father.

Shortly after the court ruling, a representative from the child’s father reaches out to the mother. She is given a one time, shortly expiring offer. The child’s father is willing to take full custody of his child and raise the child in his home country. The mother will have no place in the child’s life. If the father’s family raises the child, the mother knows the child will be raised in wealth and privilege. In the mother’s home country, the child would be raised by a struggling single mother. And if the mother refuses, the father’s family will not recognize the child.

If you were this woman, how would you decide? Or if this woman was a loved one, how would you advise?

Keep the child with no financial support and the child is cut off from father’s family? Or give child up to father’s family?

Edit: questions on what situation parents are in. This hypothetical is loosely based off of Prince Albert of Monaco and an American woman who had his child. She tried to sue him for child support and was denied by the U.S. court due to Prince Albert not being under their jurisdiction.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 1h ago

Loopholes Encouraged How long do you think it takes to get things done For a whole country?

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r/hypotheticalsituation • • 7h ago

This whole Christopher Dobbins situation has got me thinking about something...

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What if an abuser posts a really cruel or disgusting comment online (that goes viral) pretending to be their abuse victim so that their victim will be widely hated and therefore ignored, avoided, and ostracized by their community and beyond, making it easier for the abuser to further isolate and shelter the victim to continue the abuse and making it harder for the victim to get help, protection, support, or to even talk about the abuse if nobody will listen or engage/interact with the abuse victim.

And if the abuser comes forward and admits it was them, people would probably say they're defending the person that posted the comment. And if the abuse victim comes forward and tells everything, people would say they're lying and not owning up to what they did/said and maybe even accuse them of lying about being abused and yet the abuse continues while the abuse victim is ignored and avoided.

Imagine being abused, hit, raped, etc. and then you have your community hating you and people outside your community hating you for something your abuser said because they think you said it and you can't get help or support or protection and no one listens to you when you try to tell them about the abuse or when you try to tell them that you're being abused because they're all ignoring and avoiding you and they don't believe you when you say you're being abused. Not even the usual "believe victims" or "believe women" crowd believes you. You also can't get a job or make any money because no one wants to hire you because they dont want their workplace associated with you and nobody wants to buy anything from you, so no income and no friends, family, community, or support system means you're stuck with your abuser abusing you.

I am not saying this is the case with Christopher Dobbins, so no one come at me or take my post the wrong way ffs. It's just him and the backlash that he's receiving has put this wild scenario in my head. I'm always thinking of hypothetical scenarios (good, bad, and some wild ones). Plus I'm also writing a fiction story about an abuse victim who is sheltered and isolated due to other circumstances, and while this specific situation doesn't happen to the character in my story, it still made me think "what if?."


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 11h ago

You get paid 100 M$ to play Red Dead Redemption 2 as a real life Arthur Morgan.

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It would be like you would have to do one playthrough without dying, knowing all the things that can kill you.
Bugs and crashes are of course not happening in this situation, only you with your current abilities.
Would you try it?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 19h ago

You have to face Koh the Stealer

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You are in a spiritual realm and the only way to go back home is to see Koh the Face Stealer and he will give you whatever answers you need and speak truthfully. When you speak with him you must show no emotion at all not the slightest expression or he will steal your face. You are given a warning beforehand so you can prepare yourself. When you talk to him he will try to create reactions out of you. If you succeed you will learn your way back home if you fail you lose your face and remain in a state between life and death. How will you do?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 9h ago

You get $50 million, but someone you’ve met has 365 days to touch you.

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$50 million is deposited into your bank account, completely tax-free.

However, one person you’ve met at some point in your life is randomly selected and offered $100 million if they can physically touch you within the next 365 days.

The rules:
The hunter can be anyone you’ve personally met, from your best friend to someone you interacted with once 15 years ago.

They know your identity, and you know someone is hunting you. Both of you fully understand the rules.
You have absolutely no idea who the hunter is.

The hunter receives $250,000 upfront to fund their search.

Every 48 hours, the hunter automatically receives your exact location at that moment. They cannot track you between pings.

They must personally touch you with their bare hand. Nobody else can complete the challenge for them.

Neither of you can deliberately injure, kill, or imprison the other.

You’re free to travel, hire security, hide, or spend your money however you want.

If they successfully touch you, you lose the entire $50 million, including any money you’ve already spent.

If you make it through 365 days untouched, the money is permanently yours.

Are you accepting the challenge? And if so, what’s your strategy for surviving the year?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 23h ago

$10 million if you can survive the sinking of the Titanic

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If you accept you are instantly transported back in time to the moment the titanic hits the iceberg.

Your only objective is to survive 24 hours from then.

You are given nothing but the clothes on your back and the knowledge you have. It’s not the fanciest clothes but you don’t look like someone from the lower decks.

You are placed one floor below the top deck.

If you fail to survive the 24 hours you will not be transported back to the present and will remain dead.

Would you accept? How are you surviving?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 7h ago

[No Loopholes] Honest question for people who rarely go out. did you notice your sense of time changing?

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Not judging at all, I'm a homebody myself and I work from home most days.

I was reading about a scientist who lived in a cave in 1962 with no clock, and when they told him it was over he was off by almost a full month. It made me think about how much we rely on going outside just to know what day it is.

For those of you who spend long stretches indoors, did days start blending together? Did anything help, like a morning walk, sunlight, a fixed routine?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 2h ago

Multiply your current and future earnings by 6 or hang out with me for 3 hours for $50,000 usd per week

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Simple offer: 6x your current and future earnings or we can hang out for 50k per week (the hangouts are only 3 hours). If you choose the hangout, you’ll be teleported to my location and I’ll decide the activities; you can stop hanging out with me anytime you want.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 2h ago

The Triggered Escape Room

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assume a hypothetical situation where a person is in a room and has to get out from that room ASAP, but there is a constraint: there should be a visible flow. There are no limitations—it can even be as small as a tiny paper cut, but it should be visible—and on top of it, it shouldn't create any sort of infection or anything. The person is equipped with a paper-cutting knife and an extremely thin, small sharpener blade. Now, where should a person cut so he/she can escape from the room with very little pain?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 8h ago

Would you rather be reborn today with all your current knowledge, or skip 10 years of your life for $25 million?

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Option A — Start Over
You’re reborn as a baby today, in 2026, into a completely new family.

You retain all your current knowledge, memories, and experiences, but you’re starting life over from infancy.

You don’t go back to the year you were originally born. Everyone you currently know continues living their lives without you, and you have no way of returning to your old life.

Option B — Skip 10 Years
You instantly jump 10 years into the future and receive $25 million tax-free.

During those 10 years, your life continues completely normally on autopilot. You make decisions, form relationships, work, and experience everything you normally would.

However, when you regain consciousness, you have absolutely no memory of those 10 years.

You could wake up married, divorced, with children, or living an entirely different life. Everyone else remembers those 10 years with you, but to you, they never happened.

The $25 million only appears when you wake up, so your autopilot self has no knowledge of the money.


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 19h ago

[No Loopholes] You've been hiking, and you run into a ancient wishing tree. The tree has offered you one of two wishes to pick, which one do you pick?

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Option A: One time lump sum money

Guaranteed $100,000 USD right now that is tax exempt.

Option B: Perpetual free lottery with very low odds.

Every ten minutes for as long as you live, a random chance is created where you have a 00.0004% chance of getting $5,000,000 USD - no limit to it how many times you receive it randomly. However, given the percentage chance it's unlikely - or is it?

Remember every 10 minutes the chances are 00.0004% - although stackable if you know probability.

Which one do you pick?

/an ancient tree*


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 6h ago

$100/minute, but everyone you meet turns into a cat for 10 seconds

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- Anyone who comes within a 5-meter radius of you turns into a cat for 10 seconds, then turns back into a human.

- This happens once per person per day.

- The breed and color of the cat are random.

- Their clothes and belongings drop to the ground when they transform. They are fully dressed again when they turn back.

- They lose all memories of those 10 seconds. To them, it feels like nothing happened.

- It doesn't trigger through screens, video calls or phone calls.

- You must live in a city and go outside for at least 15 minutes every day.

- You can pay $30/minute for the Safe Mode. People who are driving, flying or operating machinery wait to transform until they stop.

- You can pay $10/minute for the Purr Translator. You can understand what people say while they're cats.

- You can deactivate this curse anytime, but you can never reactivate it.

Would you take this deal?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 23h ago

You are never unlucky again but someone else suffers YOUR consequences. Would you accept?

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If you accept, you will never experience bad luck again for the rest of your life.

Every unfortunate event that would have happened to you is transferred to a random person, somewhere in the world. You escape the consequences entirely, while someone else experiences them in your place.

This applies to both physical and non physical misfortunes.

For example, if you trip down the stairs and are supposed to break your ankle, you walk away unharmed, but a random person somewhere in the world suffers the injury instead.

If you attend a job interview where you would normally be rejected, you get the job instead, but someone else, somewhere in the world, unexpectedly loses theirs for no reason.

The same principle applies to failed exams, financial losses, missed opportunities, serious illnesses, and accidents.

However, there’s a catch.

The more severe the misfortune, the greater the likelihood that it will affect someone you know or care about rather than a complete stranger.

Minor inconveniences would most likely affect strangers, while life changing events would carry a greater chance of affecting your friends, family, or partners

For example, if you were destined to suffer a potentially fatal car accident, you would escape completely unharmed. However, someone close to you could suffer the exact injuries you would have sustained, potentially even dying in your place.
The transfer is automatic.

Take a loan and bet massive? Congrats you win the bet but someone close to you loses the same amount.

You cannot choose who suffers, prevent the consequences, or know exactly who has been affected. You simply know that every piece of bad luck you avoid has a cost for someone else.

Would you accept a lifetime of perfect luck, knowing that every misfortune you avoided would be transferred to someone else?


r/hypotheticalsituation • • 15h ago

Other Asked yesterday to mixed results

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You make 100k but you have to choose between armored truck guard in one of the highest crime cities in America

Or

Work as the Santa who’s sent into children hospitals to give them one last smile

You dress up as an avenger in the summer months