[One Week]
I'm studying Existentialism in English class (Yes, after the AP Exam has been taken...), and tonight I thought up the question "An asteroid is headed straight toward earth and you can't do anything about it...with one week to live, to do anything you want...what do you do?" and asked a bunch of people. Seems like the first answer they give is the one that most identifies with their personality. Lisa Perez said she'd go crazy, Genia said she'd get laid, Dez said he'd raid Dean Kamen's house.
It seems that if someone was given the chance to do whatever they wanted, they would do the most instinctual thing they could think of which they can't do right now. I guess impending doom could be good for some people...Imagine all the people out there who would become brave all of a sudden, all the people who would actually try to make their lives mean something. I guess it would balance out though with all the people that would go out and do things like murder people just because they can...
It looks to me like people aren't really all that good or bad comparatively to anyone else, in reality everyone has the same wants, the same desires, the same needs...whether they manifest them or not is all up to whether the person is willing to pay the consequences. I guess with a week left, the best and the worst in everyone would come out, makes sense though.