People Share Their Most Compelling "Would You Rather" Questions

"Would you rather" gets out of hand quickly, like in that movie of the same name. Would you rather be the last person standing in a horror movie with deaths on your hands, or die saving lives, but as a forgotten hero?

IceManLeroy asked, What's your best "would you rather"?

Submissions have been edited for clarity, context, and profanity.

Would you rather have a magic van that can teleport you anywhere you want and time travel anywhere you want, or a magic ring that when it touches a book you absorb all the knowledge inside?

Would you rather have an obsessive insane person love you or hate you?

Would you rather:

• Climb the tallest mountain
• Travel to the bottom of the sea?

If you had to live in a cage for the rest of your life, would you rather the bars be horizontal, or vertical?

Would you rather be able to converse with (non-human) animals, or have lifelong fluency in every (human) language?

A friend of mine got a question that read, "would you rather have an extra arm or an extra leg." My friend is missing an arm so the choice was pretty clear.

So how about this, would you rather be able to eat anything you want and have it be perfect nutrition or have to only sleep 1 hour a day and be fully rested?

Fly effortlessly, but only at 1/4 walking speed

or

Teleport anywhere, but only twice per month?

Having Jurassic Park or Ghostbusters be real?

Would you rather have mastery (and the ability to apply such mastery) over any-and-all scientific or mathematical concepts

OR

Be able to create artistic masterpieces using any medium?

Would you rather do something great for all of humanity but be remembered as one of the worst people who ever lived, or do nothing with any lasting impact in your life and be remembered as a hero to all people?

Would you rather gain 100 lbs / 45 kg of fat, or lose 15 inches / 38 cm of height? Either condition would be permanent

Would you rather your food always be too hot (as in, you'd never be used to it, it's always too hot) or have no knees?

Would you rather eat 10 gallons of cookie dough or 10 gallons of ice cream? You're only allowed to eat your choice and drink water until your choice is gone.

For this question, you'll be locked in a room full of spiders for some amount of time. Would you rather have the lights on or off?

Would you rather be very beautiful and have diarrhea forever or very ugly and safe from diarrhea for the rest of your life?

Would you rather A) Every time you have an orgasm, the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth plays, or B) every time the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth plays, you have an orgasm?

And yes, if you choose A, it will be audible to anyone in the same room as you. It will play as though from a small, but decently powerful, Bluetooth speaker.

If you think you'd choose B, I encourage you to take note of every time you hear this song in the next few months. I've found it comes on kind of a lot.

Would you rather own a rhino the size of a hamster, or a hamster the size of a rhino?

Would you rather live in the South Pole or in space?

Would you rather spend an hour going back in time to observe the dinosaurs/prehistoric animals (you get to pick the time period), or would you want to spend an hour on another planet or moon?