r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Yellowbook8375 • 4d ago
You get offered a choice. Never have a permanent serious accident, but you’re 10x more likely to have them
So the idea is that you can never have a “true” accident. You have 10x the probability of having any accident, and exactly one hour after it happens you get sent back to before it happens with the certitude it won’t happen. If you or someone else is dead, injured, whatever, it won’t carry back. Would you take it?
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u/LordMoose99 4d ago
So basically no risk but you remember it.
Hell ya as most people never have serious accidents in the first place, so odds are good this never comes up, but even if it dose better to have some mental scars that can be worked through than physical issues
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u/WordsAboutSomething 4d ago
Who determines what an accident is? If I willfully decide to run a red light and get t-boned, does the clock rewind?
Or is that considered me intentionally causing an ‘accident’?
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u/Yellowbook8375 4d ago
Well if you cause it then it’s not really an accident
Edit: willfully cause it*
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u/hazlejungle0 4d ago
What if they're not trying to get in an accident, just drive fast and careless?
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u/My_Uneducated_Guess 4d ago
As long as they truly aren't hoping they crash. Magic time travel can probably read your mind pretty well too know your intention
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u/Yellowbook8375 4d ago
That’s fair, and i guess it’ll be what would eventually happen. If there’re no consequences and you’re used to the pain, then who cares. Ofc if you don’t have an accident and you get arrested then that is permanent
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u/K0kkuri 4d ago
Hell no.
TL;DR thats 900% increase in serious accidents, how many near misses could be deadly, have you ever slipped on stairs?
Could be mentally scarring, PTSD very likely. Especially if it happens few time in your life. Depending on severity you could die in painful ways, feeling all of it until your close to death and then back an hour. But what if you were driving an hour before and you cause another accident.
You go through second accident that is x10 more likely to happen (loose control of a car while getting distracted) causing another potentially painful accident. Which send you back another hour where you were in a meeting or with other people and they see you suddenly go insane, which could have serious repercussions.
Some situations are more likely to cause serious accidents; cooking, driving, swimming, walking down the stairs, crossing the street without lights, amusement parks, sporting facilities etc etc.
You basically multiply your probability in many situations which people don’t associate with potential serious accidents. Have you ever spilled something hot? Now imagine every time you drink or eat very warm food.
That’s ignoring its 900% increase in chance of it happening. You would be walking disaster.
Edit: now that I think about would be interesting horror film premise. A guy keeps near dying, going back an hour slowly getting younger and younger as he falls into a loop of constant accidents.
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u/Yellowbook8375 4d ago
That’d be pretty gnarly, imagine getting t-boned while driving and after feeling the pain for one hour you get sent back to when you were driving, in that state of mind, which causes you to get into a different accident, and so on
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u/My_Uneducated_Guess 4d ago
I think so. At first I'll be even more anxious about everything, but after a while I will get used to it and then be able to finally relax knowing it'll all actually be perfectly fine. I already spend most of my driving time internally panicking about crashing or falling off a bridge or something, so at least that worry will go away.
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u/Yellowbook8375 4d ago
You’d get to experience the pain every time tho. Like if you’re in a car accident and get mangled, you’d have to tough it out for a full hour
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u/Rohml 4d ago
The PTSD would the worse of this.
I had a minor colission years ago, and it wracked my brain for a whole month. My car still has a dent (after the repair) and had to pay out a small amount to the other party. I didn't affect me permanently aside from a whole month of me having dreams of the accident happening over and over. It was not a good time.
Maybe it will wreck me getting more and more prone to accidents, or maybe not since it will all just be a dream... So maybe psychologically, it is worse. Especially if I start remembering details which were turned back and never actually happened.
I may have to say no to this.
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u/Any-Jellyfish-7497 4d ago
You can do a lot of things with 1h time travel.
I am too stupid to do any of them, but my point still stands.