2, 7, 10, 12, 16, 35, 60, 64, 69.
2. What will people say at your funeral?
"Here lies the idiot who died in a freak accident involving a banana and an electric mitre cutter. May his death serve as an example for us all."
Well, I think nothing extraordinary. “He was beloved by his friends and family etc.” and when the generation of my grandchildren has grown up, little more than my name and faded black and white 3D holograms will remain, which my progeny will point at with fingers, saying “Was that Ol’ Uncle Tommy or…?”
7. If you received enough money to never need to work again, what would you spend your time doing?
Writing and publishing unsuccessful novels.
10. If your entire life was a movie, what title would best fit?
"How I learned to stop worrying and love the self"
16. If you could ask a single person one question, and they had to answer truthfully, who and what would you ask?
My future wife. “So, the story you told me about your virginal pregnancy…”
Now, serously, one question with a truthful answer to one person? I don’t think I have anything in mind. Im okay with asking lots of questions and then sifting thorugh the lies of my fellow humans over time.
35. When was the last time you travelled somewhere new?
As in, a new foreign country? That must have been more than ten years ago. Me and airplanes, we don’t get along too well.
60. When did you not speak up, when you know you really should have?
Oh, there are several occasions, many even. That one time I should have made a love confession, that one time a guy was fighting with a woman on public transport. That one time a colleague botched the numbers of our quality report to make the situation seem better than it is to the management.
Nothing life-changing, or anything.
64. What is honor, and does it even matter anymore?
I’d like to direct you to the answer I gave in the post below this one.
69. Is being open-minded a virtue, if it’s causing destructive ideas to spread throughout society?
Open-mindedness alone is not a virtue, open-mindedness coupled with skepticism is. But that is, I admit, dodging the question a bit.
But to answer the question specifically: I say open-mindedness is a virtue regardless how destructive the ideas are which it spread, because open-mindedness allows for a selection process to take place. The consequences have to be endured.
A close-minded society might have greater stability, but it will never develop or evolve, and will have a hard time to adapt to new environmental influences when they come. And changes to environmental influences will come, always, it just might take more or less time. Humans are a bit overconfident wehn looking at the achievements over history - certainly, we are now able to influence our environment like no other animal species was ever able to, but in the grand scheme of universal forces, we are still less than a speck of dust knocking agaainst the magnetosphere of a star. Certain things, which are strongly related to inherent factors of human nature, will stay constant, but there is still a lot of (relative) flexibility within our biological contraints.
