Thought Experiments

You find yourself on a game show. The lights are almost blinding, but you make out three doors ahead of you. Whatever you have done, you are now presented with a choice: Door number 1, number 2, and number 3. The game show host, in his bright red suit and quirky snicker, tells you that the prizes behind each door are aligned in order of value, but doesn't say in increasing or decreasing order. Which door would you pick? He opens up door number 3, and shows you that this prize is absolutely terrible. Which door do you pick now?

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You're now journeying in a mystical dream world. Interestingly, you come across an bizarre sight. A small strip of land that separates an inconceivably large pool of lava from an equally inconceivably large pool of water. Where would you walk on the strip of land? Closer to the lava, or to the water? What if you were notified that there were piranhas in the water? Where would you walk then?

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You're back in your own shoes. Life presents you a dilemma in which you could take a stance between two polar opposites. For argument's sake, you could swing either way, neither is necessarily pleasant. Two little figurines appear on your shoulders. One tells you to consider which of the two sides would be the worse of two evils. The other tells you to just pick the middle ground, as the argument of which is worse is irrelevant. Who do you listen to?