Book of questions

Sometimes I thought to myself that there are a lot of books which try to give answers on very different topics but there is no book of questions. Today I found out that I was wrong and that there is a book of questions by Gregory Stock. Although I had something different in mind I find the idea quite interesting. Here are some of the questions from his book:

• Would you pull out the wings of a wonderful butterfly if you got a great one-week holiday according to your choice for it?
• If you had to choose today to either stay with your partner for the rest of your life or leave him/her immediately - what would you do?
• How many of your friendships have been lasting longer than 10 years? Which of your current friendships will be important to you in 10 years?
• You could become 90 years old. The last 60 years with the body or the mind of a 30-year old. How would you decide?
• Do you judge others with a higher or lower standard than yourself?
• Would you kill an innocent person if you could stop poverty in the world by doing so?
• You could live 20 years in extreme happiness knowing, however, you would have to die immediately afterwards. Would you decide in favour for it?
• What in life makes you extremely thankful?
• You are responsible for 100 people's lives. Which alternative would you prefer: You can save 90 or you have a 50:50 probability to save/lose all.
• You can either go on a 4-week holiday with your parents or work extra hours in the office every evening. How do you decide?
• How much sex would you really like to have if your partner was always willing and there was no time limit?
• Would you like to extend your life by one year if another person's life - who you will never meet - was reduced by one year? How would you decide if you knew who it was?
• With whom would you feel more comfortable: A partner who is twice as attractive as you or one who is half as attractive as you?
• How many times a day do you look into a mirror?
• Would you commit perjury for a good friend?
• Would you send your partner to a seminar about sexual practices?
• You get to know that your best friends deals with heroin. How do you react?
• You can choose to either have one good friend and no further acquaintances or many superficial friends and no soulmate. What do you prefer?
• You have the chance to meet the love of your life knowing that this person has to die in 6 months. Would you like to meet that person nonetheless? What if that person would not die but betray you?
• Would you like to know the exact date of your death?

There is no right or wrong to these questions but some really keep you thinking...