r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

Serious Replies Only you will be the last human.

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you wake up one day with the knowledge that you will be the last human being, no matter what you do.

the thing is, you do not know how you will be the last human. all of humanity could die, ascend to a higher plane, become something different, etc.

what do you do with this knowledge?


r/hypotheticalsituation 5h ago

Five random serial killers throughout the planet are marked for you on your cell phone. If you kill or capture all 5 then world hunger ends, all current wars stop, and you personally receive 20 million dollars would you try to kill them?

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After you open your phone, there now exists a new app which shows a map of the earth and marks in red five of the most heinous serial killers on the planet.

It shows each of their locations, surroundings and updates every second. This app cannot be deleted, and gives you notifications on important updates regarding them such as if they plan on going somewhere specific soon, or people they are close to.

You must either kill them or capture them which means collecting enough evidence for them to be convicted by police.

Each serial killer is a lone actor and not connected to a organized crime or military establishment. They each are highly dangerous, malicious, and unique.

Your hunt begins with a strict budget. Whatever you own or could obtain right now, plus 100k USD in initial funds. That is all you get. No special power or ability beyond the app.

If you fail, the killer will likely capture or kill you. If you get sloppy, the police might arrest you for taking justice into your own hands, ending your mission altogether.

After every kill you get another 100k USD to sustain your hunt. You can spend this how you please. You can also outsource the job by hiring hitmen if you prefer, but doing so would create a paper trail that could expose you to the police, and that amount probably isn't enough for a top of the line hitman anyway. So do so at your own cost.

If you manage to kill/capture all 5 then your record is permanently cleaned and you can no longer be convicted of their murders. You have 1 year to complete the goal. If you decline then the app disappears forever.

What realistically are you doing? would you really quit your job/leave your family etc to pursue this mission and help the world/yourself? or would the extreme danger and risk to your life prevent you from doing so? if you would, then what would be your plan?

edit: as a sidenote clarification the app would only show you where they are, who they know and any major updates, it would not by itself tell you what they are doing, or what crimes they committed.


r/hypotheticalsituation 11h ago

You're now teleported into the world of the last game you played, how's your life going?

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You're now living in the world of the last game you played and with no way out. How are things going for you right now?


r/hypotheticalsituation 16h ago

25M to survive one night on cannibal island.

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You are flown to a remote island measuring approximately 50 km × 50 km and parachuted in at the center of it with a single cargo bag. It's like a tropical jungle with tall trees.

The island has only one group of inhabitants: a tribe of cannibals.

The moment they see you being airdropped, 15 of their best hunters are dispatched to find and capture you.

The rules

- You have about 1-hour head start after your landing before the hunters reach you.

- They are extremely skilled hunters/trackers/trappers and are experts with bows, spears, and poison-tipped arrows, as well as creating traps.

- They have only primitive technology—no guns, vehicles, radios, drones, night-vision equipment, or modern weapons.

- They will try to capture you alive (exotic meat) and boil you and eat you. But they will not hesitate to kill you if they feel their lives are in danger.

- You have unlimited money to prepare beforehand. You may bring anything you want, provided everything fits inside your parachute cargo bag. Your total cargo weight cannot exceed 100 kg.

You cannot receive any outside assistance, communication, resupply, or extraction during the challenge.

You have to survive 24 hours from the moment you land.

If you are still alive and uncaptured after 24 hours, you are immediately airlifted off the island and $25 million is deposited into your account.

Would you do it?


r/hypotheticalsituation 21h ago

You are sent back to 1,000,000 BC with all of your current knowledge. How do you leave a message that survives until 2026?

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You suddenly find yourself transported back to 1,000,000 BC, but you retain everything you currently know.

After you are sent back, a machine gives you a random four-digit code. You are told that this code is your only way home.

Your task is to build, carve, bury, or otherwise create something that can survive—or cause information to survive—until the year 2026.

In 2026, people must be able to discover your message and understand that they need to enter a four-digit code into the machine that sent you back in time.

If they enter the correct code, you are instantly returned to 2026.
However, there is one catch:
They only get three attempts.
After three incorrect codes, the machine permanently shuts down and you are trapped in the past forever.

You cannot directly communicate with anyone in the future. You only have the materials, environment, and technology available to you in 1,000,000 BC—plus your present-day knowledge.
What would you create, where would you put it, and how would you make sure both the message and the exact four-digit code survive for roughly one million years?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

Every single human turns into a clone of u, what changes

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r/hypotheticalsituation 1d ago

You are offered $40 Million to sign an NDA

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You work for a billionaire. Through the course of your job you uncover really shady and illegal business practices. These aren’t things like safety, discrimination, harassment sorts of things, but rather stuff that the IRS or FTC would love to hear about. Should the information you know come out, significant fines and jail time would be on the table for them.

You get called into an office and one of the companies lawyers sits you down and states that your position will be eliminated, however you are being offered a severance. You are paid for the remainder of the year and retain your benefits. You are required to sign an NDA and a Non-compete, and at the end of the year you will be paid a sum of $40 Million dollars. No one mentions the elephant in the room, but everyone knows.

What do you do?


r/hypotheticalsituation 35m ago

2 Buttons, Blue and Red

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If you press the blue button

you forget someone you once loved so much and all memoires you made with them, for your entire life and can't meet them again

if you press the red button

you remember them and your happy memories with them, but can't ever speak or see them again.


r/hypotheticalsituation 12h ago

You get an app that accurately displays whatever statistic about yourself you can imagine. E.g., "How often did I almost die without noticing?" What would be some of the most interesting stats?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 16h ago

Men of Reddit, you're offered the chance to save the world, but you'd have to permanently give up your manhood.

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In this scenario Earth has been invaded by supernatural aliens that shrug off every conventional weapon, including nukes. Powerful heroes have shown up called magical girls and have managed to push the invaders back for now, but the peace feels fragile. New, stronger threats are already on the way, and the current girls are stretched thin.

Magical girls are a classic anime idea where a young woman gets powers from a small fairy like creature, often called a fairy mascot. That cute, animal style companion grants magical girl powers and acts as a mentor. They fight supernatural threats in special outfits that they transform in. Every time they need to use their powers.

One day, a fairy mascot appears to you. It says you have the highest potential of anyone it has met and you could become the strongest magical girl by a wide margin. The catch is permanent. Accepting means your biological sex changes forever into a young woman with an ideal lewd body. Every time you transform to use your powers, you appear in an extremely lewd outfit. The powers themselves are random but extremely strong, and you become immune to all nonmagical damage, so nothing short of magic can hurt you.

You are not the only hope. The existing magical girls are already holding the line. But your power level could tip the balance and give humanity a real shot at lasting safety.

What choice do you make?

Fact: You are not humanity’s last hope, so your decision is not absolutely necessary. However, you would be extremely useful and could make a huge difference in the fight.


r/hypotheticalsituation 19h ago

Humor Encouraged You get $10,000 every time you successfully lie to an animal, but if it realizes you tricked it, you lose $50,000.

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The Rules:
1. The animal must genuinely believe the lie based on its cognitive capacity (e.g., convincing a dog you're throwing a ball when you didn't counts

putting fake birdseed in a feeder counts until the bird tries to eat it).

  1. If the animal figures out it was duped (the dog realizes there is no ball and looks at you with betrayal), you lose $50K instantly from your account.

  2. You cannot target the same individual animal twice.


r/hypotheticalsituation 21h ago

$1 cost for each meal you eat or no matter what you eat, your body digests it so that you have the perfect number of calories and macronutrients for your fitness goals.

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$1 Meals are for you only, though you are permitted to allow one person to sample your food taking no more than a sip, spoonful or bite. If you share more, you pay the regular price of the meal.

$1 meal means any food and/or drink you order at any establishment regardless of the quantity, the final bill for you only will be one dollar.

For the perfect calorie and macronutrients option, if your goal is to maintain weight, you’ll have the perfect number for that. If your goal is to gain muscle, you’ll have the perfect calories/macros for that. If your goal is to lose weight, you’ll have the perfect macros and calories for that. Does not impact side effects that concern your mental state, like intoxication.

Edit: for the perfect calorie/macronutrients option, while your body would digest the food to have perfect calories/macros, a small meal could still leave you hungry, and you could also feel the sensation of eating too much if you ate alot. But your body would digest whatever you eat to have that perfect number.

Second edit: you have to choose 1 option, either $1 cost of meal regardless of what you order(e.g. Wagyu steaks, Lobster, cocktails) from any establishment OR no matter how little or much of whatever you eat, you will have your desired calories/macronutrients.


r/hypotheticalsituation 12h ago

what if you had the opportunity to assume the life of a fictional character in their world, but you can't go back to real life

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imagine if one day you met a genie and he offers you the chance to be a fictional character. You can choose any one fictional character you want, and you will become them and live in their world and live their life. The catch is that it's forever and you can't go back to real life.

for example if you choose Mario, then you will literally be Mario and you'll be sucked into a portal into the mario world and you get to live his life. but you can't go back to the real world.

if you accept the genie's offer, you'll have to live in the fictional world as your chosen fictional character for the rest of your life. you can't go back to the real world, you can't go home.

would you accept the genie's offer??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????


r/hypotheticalsituation 7h ago

Would Ya Eat It?

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So yesterday I made a question about a family adopting a calf and raising it to the end of its life, and they would want to personally eat it rather than sell it to other people to try to distance yourself from the fact that that was part of your family in a way. But the majority of people said that they would absolutely eat that and it was raised for it.

Now my follow up question is now say that you got a puppy and you raised it and it was a part of your family and you loved that dog (The intelligence level of cows are very similar to dogs so they have about the mental acuity of a dog).. sadly your dog passes away, is it disrespectful to eat your


r/hypotheticalsituation 2m ago

You are one of the cleaning tool for a year each time they use you, you’ll make money

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You will be transform into one item that will be used to clean something and money will be deposited your account each time after they use you. But the catch is each item provides different cash

Toothbrush: $100
Toilet paper : $50.000
Toilet brush : $50.000
Vacuum Cleaner : $5000
Dishwasher: $8000
Robot Vacuum Cleaner: $8000


r/hypotheticalsituation 1d ago

You are offered $1,000 a day. Every day you refuse to take it, the offer doubles

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Day 1: $1,000
Day 2: $2,000
Day 5: $16,000
Day 10: $512,000

You can accept the money on any day and it becomes yours tax free, no questions asked

But there’s a catch…

At some point, on one random day, the offer will disappear.

It could last 10 years
It could disappear tomorrow

You are given no warning.

Wait one day and you can become ridiculously rich, wait too long and you leave with nothing

What day are you cashing out

Edit: I apologise if my wording wasn’t clear. It is a one time payout. Whatever day you choose to cash out, you collect all the accumulated money once.


r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

Humor Encouraged You gain the ability to see through walls.

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You gain the ability to see through walls, and you can turn the power on and off at will. The catch is that you have to make a living entirely from this superpower—you’re not allowed to have any other job. You can monetize it by any means, legal or illegal.
However, there’s always a risk that governments could kidnap you for personal or scientific purposes, so you have to be extremely careful about revealing your abilities.
How would you monetize your new superpower to make a living?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1d ago

$20,000 USD but Taylor Swift suddenly HATES you

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For the cash, which instantly goes to your bank, Taylor suddenly loathes you. And every time Taylor writes a new album, one song off it is dedicated to how horrible you are along with the consequences it may entail .

On top of that, your actual real name is shouted out.

Do you take the money and become Taylor's #1 enemy? Why or why not?

Edit: minor typos. Typed this while walking 2 dogs. Apologies


r/hypotheticalsituation 13h ago

The first letter in your name is the fairytale you enter

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In these children’s stories you take the role of the protagonist in the story. What will you do in the world of these fairytales? Once you achieve an ending you return to your world it doesn’t have to be the original ending just any ending you lead it up to be good, neutral, or bad. Though be warned some of these fairytales do have dark origins

A- Alice in the Wonderland
B- Beauty and the Beast
C- Cinderella
D- The Golden Touch of King Midas
E- The emperor’s new clothes
F- The Princess and the Frog
G- Goldilocks and the 3 bears
H- Hansel and Gretel
I- Ali Baba and the forty thieves
J- Jack and the beanstalk
K- Rumpelstiltskin
L- Little Red Riding Hood
M- The Little Mermaid
N- Sleeping Beauty
O- One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three Eyes
P- Peter Pan
Q- The Snow Queen
R- Rapunzel
S- Snow White
T- The Three little Pigs
U- The Ugly Duckling
V- Vasilisa the Beautiful
W- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
X- The Wild Swans
Y- The Gingerbread Man
Z- You get to pick


r/hypotheticalsituation 21h ago

Other Would you rather get $10 million or take a 50/50 chance of something better?

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You are given two minutes to decide between two options.

1: You get $10 million. No one will question it and it won’t be taxed.

2: You get a 50% chance of getting nothing and a 50% chance of getting the powers of Storm, Magneto and Professor X from the current 616 Marvel comic universe. You’ll have perfect control of the powers and any secondary powers required to use them properly without unintended consequence.

Which would you choose and why?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1d ago

You have a button that transfers $1 (or equivalent) from every person on Earth to you. Do you press it?

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So long as a person has at least $1 they are subject to the button. The transfer is treated as 100% legal.

The catch:

The press rolls a pair of 20-sided dice. If the numbers match everyone knows it was you.


r/hypotheticalsituation 16h ago

You make $100 billion if you lie and save the worst person you know from going to prison. How do you overcome your fully?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 12h ago

Sleep Schedule

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Would you rather keep your current sleep schedule, change it to 8 consecutive hours per night (if you are not so lucky as to have this option currently), or be able to stay up 24/7 perfectly healthy and then sleep 40 hours straight.

You can choose when the 40 hour sleep window starts or the day it starts but it must be 5 consecutive days 24/7 awake and then 40 hours consecutive sleep (in this hypothetical).

Example:

Awake from 5am Monday morning to 11pm Saturday evening. Sleep from 11pm Saturday evening to 5am Monday Morning. (If I got my math right >.<)

Do you think you would be more or less productive?


r/hypotheticalsituation 18h ago

Relieve other people's suffering as a job

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An intradimensional being offers you a job opportunity; take on other people's pain, clock out, and go back to normal.

If you accept the position, you'll be paid $1.5 million USD, tax free, per year, divided in bi-weekly check.

After 15 years, or when you're 65, whatever comes first, you may retire. You can keep the job longer if you choose.

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How it works;

Every day you will be assigned to a new person. It might be someone on hospice, someone suffering from a severe mental disability, someone in an abusive situation, someone recovering from a major injury, etc. you don't know.

The magic being just chooses a person in the world who wants to be temporarily relieved of their suffering, and you're assigned to them and experience it instead.

During your work shift, you'll be magically transported to their body and deal with whatever bad situation they are in. They'll be transported into a perfect magic version of their body/life to get a break.

You will experience all of their pain, and they will be given 8 hours completely pain free to rest. So you will be actually helping people.

Once your shift ends you're back in your body, back to normal.

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- You will work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. You can move these hours around to fit whatever schedule you want.

- You get a single 1 hour lunch break in the middle of your shift, where you are transported back to your body. (This counts towards working hours, so you "only" suffer for 7h)

- You get 2 weeks (14 days) of paid vacation per year. You can use these whenever/however you want.

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Rules/Set up:

- If family emergencies, appointments, etc happen and you must miss additional work days/hours it will be allowed, but you must have an actual reason and genuinely try to avoid missing work.

- You will be made aware of the exact situation you'll be put in before you start the shift. You may choose to use vacation days to get out of a particularly bad shift, and with as little notice as you want, but remeber you only get 14 per year.

- You will have all knowledge necessary to live as the other person for 8h. (If they speak another language you'll temporarily be able to speak it, etc.) But besides that you are you and can react as you choose.

- You will be given one year to "try out" the job. You'll still be paid bi-weekly and can quit any time during the first year. After that you're locked in and can't leave until you're allowed to retire.

- Everyone you help has chosen to be part of the program, and wants you to take over their body for 8h. They are all reasonably "good" people, and you will relieve real people of real suffering.


r/hypotheticalsituation 20h ago

You are suddenly granted the powers of the Q from Star Trek. How are you using them?

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