If you could see your future, would you really want to see it?

• Tiernan

  I'd like to know if my fake brother was going to die so I could stop it from happening.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Tiernan;1584406 wrote:I'd like to know if my fake brother was going to die so I could stop it from happening.

  I'd like to see your future, to try to help innocent bystanders avoid injury when you get behind the wheel whilst loaded.
• Heretic

  

  Fab4Runner;1584093 wrote:What if you're in for a life of misery? I don't want to be depressed about becoming depressed.

  Then you take out all your money, buy a crazy amount of drugs, binge like crazy and if that doesn't finish you off, you handle that step yourself.
  
  As opposed to enduring a life of misery, you have a brief period of ecstasy and then prevent that life of misery from ever happening.
• vball10set

  I wonder how many people who answered 'yes' would still do so if they knew their future could not be altered in any way.
• Laley23

  

  Heretic;1584495 wrote:Then you take out all your money, buy a crazy amount of drugs, binge like crazy and if that doesn't finish you off, you handle that step yourself.
  
  As opposed to enduring a life of misery, you have a brief period of ecstasy and then prevent that life of misery from ever happening.

  Well, now we are talking as if seeing the future we can alter what we are going to do.
• Heretic

  

  Laley23;1584505 wrote:Well, now we are talking as if seeing the future we can alter what we are going to do.

  Well, yeah, free will and all. I mean, it's not like if I see a horrible future that I wouldn't try to avoid it. And if one goes to extreme enough measures, they can avoid the average mundane loser-ville fate.
  
  I mean, if I see my future and see that I'm going to spend my entire life as an office drone before dying of a heart attack at age 57 and I decide that future sucks, I don't see any way that I couldn't alter things if I wanted to. It might involve a public homicide, but I could alter it.
• Laley23

  

  Heretic;1584511 wrote:Well, yeah, free will and all. I mean, it's not like if I see a horrible future that I wouldn't try to avoid it. And if one goes to extreme enough measures, they can avoid the average mundane loser-ville fate.
  
  I mean, if I see my future and see that I'm going to spend my entire life as an office drone before dying of a heart attack at age 57 and I decide that future sucks, I don't see any way that I couldn't alter things if I wanted to. It might involve a public homicide, but I could alter it.

  I guess I didn't see the original question as having the ability to change what you saw.
  
  In that case, I think it would be 100% choosing to see it. What's the downside? Know future is awesome or know it sucks and change it??
• sherm03

  

  I totally would want to see. Back to the Future II taught me that it's OK to see your future so you could go back to your current time and change something about yourself in order to make life better. I mean, what if it's as simple as not freaking out when someone calls you chicken?
• Classyposter58

  

  Laley23;1584083 wrote:Fuck no. No chance in hell I would want to know.

  With ya there, kinda defeats the purpose of life
• vball10set

  Laley23;1584519 wrote:I guess I didn't see the original question as having the ability to change what you saw.

  It didn't.
• Rotinaj

  

  Laley23;1584519 wrote:I guess I didn't see the original question as having the ability to change what you saw.
  
  In that case, I think it would be 100% choosing to see it. What's the downside? Know future is awesome or know it sucks and change it??

  This is the correct line of thinking in this hypothetical. Seeing yourself being shot in your house on February 28th and just saying fuck it, I guess ill go and die today doesn't make any sense.
• Tiernan

  vball10set;1584497 wrote:I wonder how many people who answered 'yes' would still do so if they knew their future could not be altered in any way.

  Obviously you've never seen a single Time Travel movie...everytime someone goes into the future and alters their life it causes a cataclysmic chain reaction that destroys the earth.
• Tiernan

  Oh wait that is The Past...never mind.
• sherm03

  

  Tiernan;1584906 wrote:Obviously you've never seen a single Time Travel movie...everytime someone goes into the future and alters their life it causes a cataclysmic chain reaction that destroys the earth.

  Obviously you've never seen Back to the Future II...because no, it doesn't.
• Tiernan

  Sarcasm Shermy sarcasm...look it up, quite a concept.
• hang_loose

  If you could see the future, you could change it!!! Sheldon (Big Bang Theroy (sp).