A domanda kind of inspired off a Black Mirror episode....

If te had the ability to click a button and find out how long a relationship would last, may that relationship be friendship, romatic, o familial, would te click the button?

SCENARIO A: If te click the button, te will have to click the button every time after that for every relationship.

SCENARIO B: te do not have to click the button again if te click it once and it will always be open to clicking.

State what te would do under both scenarios
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Mauserfan1910 said:
I wouldn't in either scinario. The future isn't real, there's no such thing as fate. Even if something theoretically tell me the future, that won't change the fact that I still have to give my marriage my all, o else the future might still be wrong.
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^My theory alligns with yours. Also, even if it was capability to be 100% correct, I wouldnt anyways since knowing such a deadline would do nothing più than make the left over days horrid.
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wantadog said:
As of like two years ago, I would have detto neither cuz I don't believe in fate o destiny, but since then my visualizzazioni on it have changed. For friendships and familial relationships, I'm kinda meh on it so I'd probably do Scenario B for those cuz I don't care about my family very much and I only have one true friend.

On romantic relationships tho...I have noticed I've become rather cynical towards the concept of Amore in the last two years, taking on a "it'll screw te over if te let it" attitude so I would emphatically choose Scenario A cuz te can't get hurt o betrayed if te don't put any trust in anything.

I realize that's a shitty way of looking at it. I kinda feel bad cuz I used to be upbeat and optimistic about that kind of stuff but eh.
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My answer didn't really answer what I'd DO in both scenarios so much as which relationships I'd choose for each scenario
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Rihanna312 said:
In scenario A I wouldn`t press it. It would be too boring to live life that way. I imagine that would mean that I can`t change future no matter how hard I tried and everything would play out exactly as the button has said.

In scenario B I guess I might use that button if it`d work for, let`s say, old frieds with whom I`ve drifted apart. I would like to know if it`s worth trying to renew the friendship o if they have changed so much that we couldn`t really ever be good Friends again.
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8theGreat said:
I'm having a hard time thinking of anything that could actually be gained da knowing that information.

Presumably it's so te can gauge how much time/effort/trust/expectation to put into detto relationship, so te aren't horribly disappointing when it ends, but the length of time te know that person would be a really crappy way to try and calculate that.

The time alone wouldn't indicate the quality of the relationship in question. te can have short-lived relationships that were really good and te were glad to have still, o te can be in a horrible relationship for years and years that te hate being in.

Like, I would much rather be close Friends with someone that I only knew for like 3 months that still left a lasting, positive impression on me than be stuck married to someone I hate for 10+ years because I'm scared to death of being alone.

And if te just knew how long each of those relationships lasted, and based its entire merit on how long it was, you'd assume the friendship was shit but the marriage was awesome when really it was the opposite.

Consequently, te may put less stock in a relationship te know is only going to last a short while that te actually had a lot to gain from. te may put più stock into someone that's going to drive te absolutely insane in the long run and in the end not be worth it.

And if te weren't going to use it as a way to decide which relationships weren't and were going to be worthwhile, what would te even do with that information? te could say that te can't be hurt if te know the relationship will end in 10 months, but is it really the length of time o the relationship ending that hurts? It's usually something else, something più nuanced, that makes it hurt.
Not to mention that every time te see that person, you're going to have how long your relationship will last in the back of your head no matter what. That would suck, not to mention that it would kind of take away from the organic factor of building relationships.

The only time it would really be beneficial at all in any way would be if it told te that te were going to be in a relationship that te were really happy, but there comes a point in any relationship whether it be a friendship o a romance o a familial thing where te can kind of tell on your own.
And that's assuming things don't go aspro, acida and te just stay together because its convenient o something which does happen.


There's really no point in that sort of thing when te really sit down and think about it. Relationships are nuanced.
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