No consequences, positive or negative? I think I’ll just stay on the sofa.
What even is the point? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m with you, I’ll have a nice long weekend.
The experience, perhaps.
Can’t even enjoy a good video game, save files ain’t saving.
kill a couple thousand politicians, but try to spare any under the age of 45. I may or may not agree with their views, but at least they’ll be a part of the future they’re tryna make.
torture some billionaires to gain access to their company payroll, so I can cut their CEOs pay and raise their entry-level workers’ pay. Hell, I’ll raise the payrates of everyone under them, they all deserve it more than a CEO.
I’d prolly only have enough time to do that to one company tho, so I’d probably choose Amazon as priority one.
Would you like some volunteers?
I would NEVER condone violence. But hypothetically, as a united States citizen, the most significant thing a person could do is eliminate two Supreme Court Justices.
It’s the only part of our government with ZERO balance of power, and it is currently using its power to change settled interpretations of the law.
Fix the would by killing every billionaire on earth and distributing their wealth to social programs
The question becomes more interesting when you consider that the scenario doesn’t give you infinite power to do anything, just no consequences for what you do. I mean yea if you stole a million dollars, you would face no consequences, but realistically speaking, could you steal a million dollars even if you tried? Some other people here suggested murdering politicians (which is pretty fucked up tbh) but it’s quite likely you’d never even get the chance to do this within 24 hours, especially considering many politicians have security people.
I’m really trying to rack my brain for the most impactful thing I could even do within 24 hours, without consequences. One idea would be to loan as much money as I possibly could and transfer all the money somewhere else, assuming the debt is cancelled at the end of the 24 hours as it is a “consequence”.
I wouldn’t (and probably couldn’t) do anything more extreme than that. The consequences is not what is holding me back from being a murderer 😅, that’s just my moral compass.
Assuming the strict definition of “no consequences”, anything we did would be reset, since it implies consequence.
Maybe redefine the issue as “no negative consequences”.
If you’re REALLY strict, then “retaining the memory of it happening” is a consequence. So maybe this already happened under the strict setting, but none of us remember it.
Several years ago, I went under the knife and the whole day from the point they put me under is a total blank. It’s unsettling because I am told I carried on conversations with the doctor, family members, etc. after initially coming to from anaesthesia, but it’s only starting the following morning when I woke up in a regular hospital bed that I could start remembering again.
Crazy to think about.
I’m not sure if I could get anywhere and back. Woge I own a gun and you have allowed me to get it on a plane, but that day would expire before I get home and now I have a gun that I am taking through airports and customs.
Yeah if the law (or fear of god) is the only thing that prevents one from doing horrible things, then they’re probably not the most balanced person to begin with.
For fun… no consequences. So the security detail can’t touch you… and any area effect weapon can’t either. Like in the movies. So one big boom. Of course no consequences might also count for the target I guess. Lol.
Some other people here suggested murdering politicians (which is pretty fucked up tbh)
They murder people all the time
Everyone’s talking about killing people and I’m here thinking about how you could try every drug imaginable with zero risk of addiction
addiction is far more complicated than just biological mechanisms unfortunately. the fact that it’s already appealing to you should be a warning sign!
Its really not. The context of the question was “there are zero consequences for your actions”. To put it somewhat reductively, addiction is, in essence, a direct or indirect consequence of experiencing a high. Since the hypothetical specifiee no consequences, there would be no addiction.
I appreciate the concern, but please don’t read too much into it. Its a silly answer to a silly question.
except… it’s not. we can let it go because it is a light hearted question, but as someone who provides treatment to this population I just wanted to give a shout out to the fact that addiction goes beyond biochemical dependence and usually stems from shit being fucked up in your own life that causes you to be interested in using substances to begin with
I understand where you’re coming from, and I don’t mean to minimize the issue - just didn’t expect my reply to incite a serious discussion about the pitfalls of addiction. Its absolutely an important subject involving many complicated factors.
For context, though, I can assure you that my comment did not come from a place of subconscious interest. I place incredible value on maintaining a clear state of mind, and go to great strides to keep it that way. I would never willingly jeprodaize it.
That’d be fun. You’d be able to get high and it’d be 100% safe!
Gonna break so fuckin many laws of physics.
perpetual motion lets fucking gooooooooo!
*24 hrs of perpetual’ish motion
If it continues after 24 hours, does it necessarily have to stop considering it is still the same action?
This is the “can God create a stone so heavy” thing. It’s known as a metaphysical impossibility.
By that point, could it REALLY be called perpetual motion if it only lasts for 24 hours?
Realistically: Steal every catalytic converter from every nearby truck and SUV, melt them down and sell them for like $100,000
If there’s a security stand down: Bust into airports and destroy corporate jets.
If anything is possible: Vladimir Putin. Benjamin Netanyahu. Former and current CEOs
You could do literally anything with impunity and you choose to steal catalytic converters?
This is somehow worse than Dwight’s fantasy of working in hell for $88,000 a year.
Haters gonna hate
They started cracking down on stolen cats so they’re not that valuable anymore
What about dogs?
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You’d rather go through that hassle than just walking into a bank vault and loading up a big bag with cash?
No consequences mean no positive consequences as well. After the timer is up, everything’s back to normal. You truly have to live in the moment for this one.
Then there’s no point.
There still is! Have a blast in these 24 h. Get high. Spend all your money on the best food. Have some fun with sex workers. There’s plenty to have which is fun on a short-term basis.
And then you have no memory of it at the end of the day. Pointless.
So everything is pointless unless you remember it? Is everything pointless just because you die either way and everything will be lost?
If my actions have any lasting effect, then it’s not pointless.
does everybody just come back to life too? Like if somebody offed the supreme court 3 years ago I’d have 4k extra dollars from the original student loan debt relief attempt
I’d interpret “no consequences” as absolutely no consequences, so a hard reset. In that way killed people get alive again, yes.
Inconsequential ? Sigh story of my life.
Man, I dunno. Probably something crazy like allow myself to be vulnerable and express my true emotions.
Haha, yeah, such a funny joke… n-no reason to think we really have emotions. Nope, everything’s A-OK. So funny. Yup.
Assassinate a very specific person.
I’d be restructuring the entire government. Or as much as I could in 24 hours, anyway.
Wouldn’t “no consequences” mean that nothing is permanent? Since consequences can include good ones.
So everything you do about the government can’t have consequences. So… it’s meaningless?
Pfft Logic, we need sound flogic round these parts!
Oh I’d restructure it alright…
No consequences?
With all due respect to the seriousness of suicidality, I can’t help but wonder how killing myself would play out.
I would suppose you get rudely resurrected when the 24 hours expires.
Ah, so like Groundhog Day.
So the choices are indulging in risky experiences, whether for pleasure or for character building (e.g. facing a storm at sea). Only memory is preserved. You can’t make sociopolitical improvements or enrich yourself. (Though if you revert to a day ago you might know what stocks to buy in the morning.)
Nice try FBI, but you’re not getting that confession out of me this easily!!!
I totally get where people are going with eliminating dictators and what not, but knowing myself as well as I do… yeah, you’d probably find me down at the Chinese buffet.
Fuck, I’d probably even still pay for it.
Something like that, and a fuck load of real ale.
Can I get some prep time beforehand? Cuz I don’t know how to fly an attack helicopter or a bomber and I will need all the range and firepower.
Install a whole bunch of robot body parts and become a super human…
Just to clarify, “No consequences” means that it’ll all be fine, my body won’t reject the implants and this won’t be a terrible horrific idea, right?
Right…
That’s right you have no consequences for 24 hours. Then you’re body will start rejecting the implants.
