Book of Questions #17

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"Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...> wrote:
> Anybody want to answer this one below? <snip> QUESTION:
> 17.  Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it 
meant
> you would live for a thousand years at any physical age you chose?
 
I'd rather be pretty and dead, than hideous and alive :) This reminds 
me of a question that my friends and I (in jest) bandied around not 
long ago: would you rather be hideously ugly or monstrously fat? 
Nearly everyone preferred obesity, claiming that whilst you could 
always exercise and eat right to lose weight, plastic surgery costs a 
lot of money!

For the record...

> How much are you affected by a person's physical appearance?
Good physical appearance is important for first impressions, but 
doesn't hold any special significance in the long term... plenty of 
my mates are ugly ;) Good physical appearance doesn't imply fabulous 
good looks, but more personal attention and hygiene. 

> Do you find anything disturbing about immortality? 
Definitely, yes! Whilst I'm frightened by the idea of dying, the idea 
of NEVER dying sounds even worse... if there was an unlimited time 
for you do to everything, you'd never get it done. There's just 
something chilling about the idea of living forever, and about the 
whole human obsession of trying to draw out our lives. Look where 
Voldemort's quest for immortality has taken him... sorry to get on 
topic, btw ;)

> What age seems ideal to you?
Being young for the time being, I can't really give you an objective 
answer... I'll get back to you in fifty years ;)

--> Sam

PS, that was v thought provoking; more q's would certainly be welcome!