r/hypotheticalsituation

You're offered 400 million dollars by one of the most evil serial killers in history.

This person has committed so many horrific crimes that reading the details would make most people sick to their stomach. He has never harmed you or anyone you care about, and he has absolutely no intention of doing so.

You are the only person who possesses a piece of evidence that would guarantee his conviction and put him in prison for the rest of his life. Without your evidence, he will be found not guilty and walk free.

Before the trial, he secretly offers you 400 million dollars to stay silent until the verdict is reached. If you accept, he will pay you every cent, guaranteed. He will never target you, your family, your friends, or anyone connected to you, either directly or indirectly. There is no trick, no betrayal, and no hidden catch.

If he is convicted because of your evidence, you receive nothing. He also has powerful criminal connections, and it is widely believed that many of his partners are still out there and have never been caught. While there is no guarantee they would come after you, turning him in could put you on their radar.

If you stay silent, he walks free with no legal consequences.

What are you doing?

Edit: 100 percent he will kill again just to be clear. If you let him go.

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u/Neither_Drawing_241 — 2 hours ago

Would you want to try being the other gender but for an entire year ?

Let’s say that a random genie appears in front of you and giving you an offer : you can experience how the other gender is living BUT only for an entire year. So if you’re a woman who wants to try being a man, it’ll last for 365 days and same for man who wants to be a woman. Not just a day, not just a week. A year.

Would you take the deal ?

For obvious and easier reasons, you’d be placed in another world so to speak and you’d be back in your real world as soon as the year ends.

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u/Anton_Zimsky — 3 hours ago

You can be god of just a single room

If you ever get burnt out or just tired of things in general, you can teleport to a single room the size of your bedroom. In it, you have the power to anything. You can spawn anything that fits in the room, you can bring anyone, you can dilate time so you spend an hour there while a second passes in real life. At any point you could return home and come back again but you can’t take anything from the room with you. The only thing you can’t do is make the room itself bigger.

What do you do with this power?

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u/OldLadOfTheCastle — 6 hours ago

You and your friend are swimming in a high building

They dive underwater and yank your swimming trunks off. Quickly they jump out of the pool grab a hang glider and glide out the window.

What do you do?

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u/Ifyouliveinadream — 3 hours ago

your wife gets turned into a dog

let's say your wife of 10 years got transformed into a dog by some evil which and there's no way to turn her back. she still keeps her memories and her human mind intact. would you stay with her or would you leave?

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u/ButterscotchOk3047 — 5 hours ago

$100,000 a month but the bottoms of your feet constantly feel like you’re standing on ice

Inspired by Chronicles of Narnia: $100,000 per month but the bottoms of your feet are constantly cold, as if you’re standing on a block of ice. No physical damage or pain, just a severe icy sensation

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u/chromite297 — 4 hours ago

Your fly/zipper always feels like it’s down

You get $10 per day but in exchange it feels like you constantly let your pants unzipped whether you did or didn’t. You even feel that way on pants that don’t even have a zipper. You taking that $3650/year presumably tax free.

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u/CarefulHand8130 — 4 hours ago

A global airline offers you an unlimited lifetime pass, but you'll always be seated right next to a crying baby in economy.

And, no other airline will ever sell you a ticket for life. You're stuck with just this airline, in economy, and next to the crying baby who needs a diaper change.

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u/HighOnLove26 — 6 hours ago

Experiment in mind control

If you could completely control the mind of any one person, for one year, no limit on distance but must be the same person under your control the whole time, who would that be? And what would you have them do? Or, what would you do to them? You can control actions, erase memories, or make them see or believe anything, but you cannot kill them or make them kill anyone, including themselves. 😈

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u/mature_muscleguy — 2 hours ago

Should the evil king get the "diavolo" treatment

Imagine this , there is an evil king that rules over the entire world he has magical wizard abilities and has ruled the world for the past 550 years he rules the planet with an iron fist and lets hundreds of thousands die daily cause of starvation,sacrifices many citizens weekly and eats babies of virgin mothers he impregnates magically without intercourse. He is un-killable by any means imaginable except with a ray gun this ray gun is one of a kind and can never be rebuilt or reverse engineered to be altered.The ray gun shoots a beam of energy (here's where the diavolo part comes in)if struck by it the person struck will be sent into another universe where the will be stripped of their powers and die. But they will be brought back to life in a different universe and a completely different scenario where they will die again, this will continue infinitely forever ♾️, this person who gets shot by the ray will at some point experience every single death imaginable (e.g :live a full life only to die choking on a piece of food. Being tortured for 30 years knowing nothing but pain etc) .now imagine you have the choice to shoot this king with the ray gun would you do it? Would you send this objectively evil king to such a fate?

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u/totallynotracist45 — 3 hours ago

You have died and awoken in an afterlife, you are being asked to pick a new body and it can be anything you can imagine. What do you pick?

You have no visual memory of your current body as a side effect of dying, but they say you'll get visual memory back in about ~6-12 months. Until then, you have to pick something new. That's the only rule.

What are you going with?

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u/SpecialFlutters — 8 hours ago

10 humanoid friends

**Credits to the other user who inspired this by their own hypothetical but I forgot the username lol**

So you found a storage with 10 humanoid robots along with the instructions.

As the instructions state, the humanoids are activated by charging them and taking a ring off of their hand and putting it on your own. This ring adjusts in size accordingly and scans the human wearing it hence initiating the adoption process. The manual goes on about to how to activate and maintain the humanoids and establish yourself as the owner. During this process you will have the ability to adjust the entire appearance, character, skills, intelligence etc etc of the humanoid and once you're done they'll always stay loyal to you and obey you while still having their own personality that you gave them. Once this process is fully done and you're happy with the result, you can remove the ring from your finger, put it somewhere safe and start initiating the next humanoid if you wish.

The humanoid can be programmed in every little detail and is capable of getting a job, driving a car, being your partner or your child's nanny, you name it. It is able to produce it's own documents according to it's appearance but obviously birth certificate records, diplomas etc won't exist but all in all you can find them a job, travel with them, get them a driver's licence or even marry them.

How many are you taking with you and what characters are you assigning to them?

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u/idk-anymore-tbh-- — 6 hours ago

You are given a billion dollars right now.

The catch is, you have to spend all of it down to the last cent in 72 hours purely on yourself.

Rules -

  1. You can't donate any money to charities or open your own, or in any way get rid of the money in a way that doesn't directly benefit you.

  2. You can't buy anything for anyone but yourself.

  3. No government entity will ask you where your money came from or attempt to tax you for it.

  4. Everything you purchase needs to be yours within the 3 day time limit. For example : You can't order a plane since it takes months to manufacture and deliver.

  5. You MUST pay market value for whatever you buy, and cannot pay a price that you decide with the seller of any item if you collude with them.

  6. You cannot buy things on payment plans and set the money aside to pay for it if the last payment is not completed within 72 hours of getting the money.

If you succeed, you get to keep everything you've bought.

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u/Abhi_yeet — 16 hours ago

Your mortality solves the problem of your loved ones

You press a button and you vanish like you never existed before. The memory of you is wiped from the brains of your loved ones, but they now will live the best possible life ever. They will be happy , rich and have total authority and power, will you take it ?

I will !!!

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u/Weary_Word_5262 — 12 hours ago

You get the choice to pick one item amongst 3 option

1)A bracelet of destination that let's you travel different universe and alternate timelines and has the ability to tell you in details about those timelines and universes

  1. A ring of death that let's you kill any living organisms with just your thoughts before their set time of death and absorb the remaining lifespan they have to yourself and also let's you to sell any extra lifespan you have

3)A Coin of Fortune – Grants unbelievable luck whenever you flip the coin and it lands head but does nothing when it lands tail the luck granted makes any reasonable outcome go in your favor.

Which would you take?

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u/Casual_Dude2532 — 13 hours ago

All humans now have a glowing halo above their heads every time they interact with someone.

These are the colors and the meanings

Red means the person finds you attractive.

Hot pink means they don't just find you hot, but they are actively crushing hard on you and want to flirt.

Green means they think you're cool, but in a friendly and non-romantic way. Maybe you did a cool trick shot, or showed off your brand new Electric scooter, and all of a sudden, all your homies have a glowing green halo above their heads.

Aqua means they're embarrassed to be around you, and they're awkward and want to leave the situation.

Light purple means they're scared of you, and dark purple means they're plotting against you and have dark thoughts. So if you see a dark purple halo on someone, they may have a knife, be a con artist, or pickpocket.

Salmon pink means the person is crushing on you but already has a romantic partner.

Black means the person is depressed and too sad to even think about you at all.

Gray means the person feels completely neutral and ambivalent about you. They may feel nothing and not even acknowledge your presence.

Half red, half Pink means the person is madly in love, and they are having NSFW thoughts.

Yellow means the person sees you as a safe person in an "I want you in my fallout shelter" sorta way.

Orangy yellow means the same as above, but in an "I want you as my parental figure" way.

Bright orange means the person thinks you're stupid and they don't trust you at all.

Assume everyone, including you get this aura, and there is NO way to turn it off at all. How would this play out for you, and how will you take advantage of it? Also, humans don't get this aura until they turn 18.

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u/Comprehensive_Fox_79 — 17 hours ago

You get money

A. Get $1,000 to your bank account with no questions from authorities.

B. Get $5,000,000 in cash that you won't be able to explain. $5 mil has also magically disappeared from a local millionaire, and they got sent your drunk photo from 5 years ago along with "lol, thank you for the money" from an untraceable account.

C. Get $20,000,000 in cash that you won't be able to explain. Same amount of money has disappeared from charity organizations that support severely ill people. They got sent a low-quality photo of you with "lol, thank you for the money" from an untraceable account.

Your choice? If B or C, what would you do?

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u/owlWithBrokenWings — 17 hours ago

You get a button that gives you $10000 on each press, but also spawns a french woman from 15th century who blames you for being here

You can press the button maximum of 10000 times. Each time you press it you get $10000 dollars but an 18 year old woman from 15th century France gets spawned within one mile from you. It is a copy with all the memories of a real person from that period so don't worry about time travel paradoxes. She will spawn somewhere relatively safe so don't worry about accidental death at least not immediately.

She also knows that you are somehow responsible for her being here. She knows your face and could recognise you, and knows your current location (you had on button press) but not the name.

So you can get lots of money, but increased numbers of medieval french women are all accusing you of causing them to exist in this time.

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u/pencilUserWho — 1 day ago