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I offer you a free cake, but every 4 bites you have to let me smash your thumb with a hammer.

How do you react?

1. Tell me to go to hell.

2. Try to figure out a way to eat the cake without getting your thumb smashed.

3. Accept the offer.

1 & 2 are perfectly rational human reactions. 3 probably indicates some degree of mental illness on your part.

There's also probably a deep sickness in the society and culture that allowed me to make the offer in the first place.




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