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Discussion » Questions » Family » You get to flip a coin. If it is heads, your family lives long, happy, healthy and financially rewarding lives

You get to flip a coin. If it is heads, your family lives long, happy, healthy and financially rewarding lives

for as long as the family line continues, but you have to die immediately. If it is tails, you get the long and happy life and their lives would be as they were prior to flipping the coin. Do you flip it?

Posted - April 22, 2021

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  • 13277
    they're their

    Impossible scenario. Nobody lives forever no matter how many coins you flip.
      April 22, 2021 10:07 AM MDT
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  • 44601
    The forever means as long as the family line continues.
      April 22, 2021 11:48 AM MDT
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  • 44601
    Repaired as necessary. Now you can answer it if you choose.
      April 22, 2021 1:29 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Thank you for answering your summons.
      April 22, 2021 2:58 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    No.. I think everyone is doing well as things stand.
      April 22, 2021 10:21 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    No.  The cost is too great either way.
      April 22, 2021 2:25 PM MDT
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  • 10634
    Hmmm... how about I just grab the coin and run?  
      April 22, 2021 3:01 PM MDT
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  • 53502


      Heads. I’m just about done around here anyway. I’ve eaten all the sandwiches I need to eat, the Minnesota project is stretching out over years with no favorable end in sight yet, there are concurrent ongoing investigations covering several jurisdictions looking into the basement facilities, grammar-policing is just whack-a-mole online, knock-off sweatshops produce more tildes of low quality than my suppliers can keep up with, the Harem scheduling matrix is a complete disaster due to all the changes and the infighting over who gets me first or how much time she gets, Vegemite is starting to show up on far more US grocery store shelves, the whippersnappers have taken over whole sections of my lawn and refuse to budge, etc., etc., etc.  If it gives the rest of my family members that boost, I’m doing them more good than harm by taking the deal.
    ~

     

      April 22, 2021 4:42 PM MDT
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  • 44601
    Excellent job, but you didn't answer the question. I simply asked if you would flip it.
      April 23, 2021 2:16 PM MDT
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  • 53502

     

      You’re right, I should have included that. Yes, I’d flip it, and I’d hope it came up heads. 

    ~

      April 23, 2021 3:43 PM MDT
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  • 17592
    Sure. 
      April 23, 2021 1:32 PM MDT
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