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Would You Rather

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WouldYouRather or "Would you rather" (abbreviated as WYR) is a place to have a conversation that poses a dilemma in the form of a question beginning with "would you rather".

The OP asks a question or options that are either similarly good or similarly bad and people in the comments discuss how they would answer.

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Would you rather have the power of flight or invisibility? (self.wouldyourather)
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For flight: you have the ability to fly, let's assume Superman-status.

For invisibility: you can become invisible at will along with your clothes, so no awkward mishaps. You can't make objects invisible though.

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[โ€“] stanleytweedle 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Flight, but only because you included 'superman-status'. Usually these questions don't address the fact that just being able to fly is probably more trouble than it's worth if you still have the usual human frailties. You couldn't go too fast or a birdstrike would kill you, limited altitude, and landing safely could be a problem. Plus our senses just aren't designed for the extremes of flight so we'd probably be disoriented all the time. But if you're already built to handle all that then flight would be awesome.

But if I could fly I'd probably start to act more like a bird than a person anyway. I'd sleep in trees and towers and get food by swooping down and snatching from outdoor dining places and stuff.

[โ€“] Calvin 4 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, I wanted to ask a more interesting question. Not a fan of those tricky conditions as much where it's like, you fly but can only breathe in a certain part of the atmosphere, etc lol.