What would you attempt to do if you knew you could never fail?
Submitted by BeckyPink.
My neighbors have already given all the good logical and/or tongue-in-cheek answers to this one. But nobody's given the paradoxical answer yet:
I'd attempt to fail a driver's license test.
I'll let someone else work out the ramifications of me succeeding at failing when I "could never fail", thereby failing to fail what I attempted to fail, and whether this really would create a rip in the space-time continuum. Feel free to discuss in the comments.
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August 27th, 2007 on 12:59 PM
Brain ache… does not compute…
August 27th, 2007 on 1:26 PM
So? With your one chance to attempt something you could not fail, you are going to attempt to fail and in doing so succeed at failing? Nice.
August 27th, 2007 on 1:38 PM
Eh. If the djinn ever pops out of the lamp and offers me this hypothetical situation, I'll reconsider. Like I said, some of my neighbors came up with the good answers .
August 27th, 2007 on 1:48 PM
I like your answer. now just divide it by zero.
August 27th, 2007 on 4:14 PM
Okay, I'm going to sound like I'm 13 years old, but there was an episode of Daria where all the students were tasked to fail miserably at something, thereby succeeding at failure… which made everybody miserable.
Very good response, BTW.