#hypothetical polls

[stream-of-stars-polling]

You get infinite money, but every purchase you make becomes public knowledge. Worth it?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 1

They won't receive a list to read from, they'll just know.

Even purchases made if you borrow someone else's money or get them to buy you something become public knowledge.

everyone knows what chocolate milk you buy. What underwear you buy. What meds you buy. Any purchase from shein. Any book. Any streamer donated to.

You'll never be able to surprise anyone with a gift.

A special protection i'll give you is that people won't think to hound you for money

[hypotheticalpolls]

Would you sterilize two-thirds of the population if it gave scientists the chance to fix significant ecological issues humanity has caused? This would drastically reduce the exploitation and consumption of many resources, but stop the sterilised population from procreating via any method.

Would you sterilize two-thirds of the population in this case?

yes

no

results

Voting ended onJan 22

[hypotheticalpolls]

One day, you wake up as the opposite agab. Nobody knows this has happened and everyone remembers you as the new gender. There is a button you can use to turn back into your agab, but you can only press it once. If you press it, everyone will forget about your gender switcharoo and remember you as your agab again. The button disappears after a year and you can’t reverse the change at this point.

How long do you go before pressing the button?

I press it immediately

a few hours

a few days

a week or so

a few weeks

a few months

the whole year until the last day you can press it

I never press the button

results

Voting ended onDec 2, 2024

Edits to clarify bc a bunch of people have found this poll:

If you’re intersex you have the opposite sex characteristics as the ones you were born with

If you’re binary trans then you just become cis of whatever gender you transitioned to

I understand people’s critiques of the poll and I’m sorry for not clarifying stuff earlier but please don’t be mean to me - just because I don’t always know the word/terminology to use doesn’t make me a terrible person or trans-/intersexphobic :(

[hypotheticalpolls]

You have a brother. You know that someone has been seriously injured as a result of criminal activity undertaken by him. You live in a country where the police are generally trustworthy.

Are you morally obliged to inform the cops about your brother’s crime?

yes

no

results

Voting ended onFeb 25, 2025

[hypotheticalpolls]

You are forced to time travel and can’t go back, where do you go?

1975

2075

Results

Voting ended onFeb 5, 2025

[hypotheticalpolls]

If you were offered a quintillion dollars, but had the choice to give it up to millions of people in desperate need of it globally and with equity, would you do it?

What would you do with the quintillion dollars?

keep it for myself

distribute it to people in need

Voting ended onJan 23

[hypotheticalpolls]

You are in public with a young child you know who normally uses the opposite gendered-bathroom as you. (If you usually use the women’s bathroom, they’d use the men’s and vice versa). However, the child really needs to go to the bathroom, it’s an emergency and nobody else can take them. No gender-neutral bathroom is available.

Which bathroom do you take them to?

I would take them to the women’s bathroom, I would NORMALLY use the women’s

I would take them to the men’s bathroom, I would NORMALLY use the women’s

I would take them to the men’s bathroom, I would NORMALLY use the men’s

I would take them to the women’s bathroom, I would NORMALLY use the men’s

I (would) never use a gendered public bathroom / results

Voting ended onFeb 24

Notes:

-The child is too young to be able to just go into the bathroom alone, but is old enough that you can just wait outside the stall for them to finish.

-There are also no single-person or family bathrooms available.

[hypotheticalpolls]

If you were offered an operation to permanently raise your intelligence significantly (+3 SD) would you do it? Would your opinion change if the change only lasted a year, and then you went back to normal?

I would do it if it was permanent or if it was temporary

I would do it if it was permanent, but not if it were temporary

I would do it if it was temporary, but not if it were permanent

I would not do this in any case

Results

Voting ended onApr 19, 2025