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| What are the highest and lowest points of your life? |
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| What are the best and worst parts of human nature? |
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| How have your strengths help you to succeed? How have your faults hindered you? |
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| If pressing a button meant you received 5 million dollars but it also killed 5 people somewhere in the world, would you press it? What if it killed only 1 person or killed 20 people? What if the people were people you knew? |
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| What are your biggest goals for your life? What progress have you made in attaining them? |
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| If you had to sum up the whole human species in 3 words, what would those words be? |
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| Who are you really? Who is behind the mask that you show to the rest of the world? |
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| What aspects of humans have made us a successful species? |
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| What is holding you back from being the person you want to be? |
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| Is what we perceive reality or just a construct of our minds? Can our minds correctly interpret reality or is reality subjective? |
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| Is human nature constant or is it molded by culture? Can human nature be completely changed by culture or society? |
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| What is the best way to explore human nature: psychology, philosophy, or biology? |
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| Are humans better at creation or destruction? |
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| Should governments make laws to protect people from hurting themselves? |
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| What is the most uplifting thing happening in the world right now? What is the most tragic thing? |
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| What does honor mean to you? How important is it to you? Does your culture value honor? What exemplifies honor in your culture? |
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| How important are morals in a healthy society? What are the most important morals for citizens to have? |
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| In the distant past, a person’s life was very similar to their grandparents’ and grandchildren’s lives. How has the rapid pace of technological advancement changed society? |
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| What is a miracle that happens every day? |
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| How important is freedom of the press to a healthy society? |
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| What are the most important factors in maintaining a well functioning society? What does it mean for a society to function well? |
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| Should the government be involved in making laws to regulate moral behavior? If so, to what extent? |
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| With the invention of the internet and the advent of big data and crowd sourcing, it’s finally possible for citizens to govern themselves directly. Is it a good idea for the masses to directly govern themselves or is governance something better left to professional politicians? |
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| What is the purpose of art in society? |
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| Do people have an obligation to help others or should people be responsible for helping themselves? |
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| Can people with vastly different cultural backgrounds live together peacefully? How? |
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| What is a year of life worth? How about a day? |
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| What is the purpose of a human life? |
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| If sacrificing your own life would save the lives of a specific number of strangers, how many strangers would need to be saved for you to sacrifice your own life? What if the people were friends? How about family? |
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| If you died today, how would you be remembered? |
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| Are some lives more valuable than others? |
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| What does the ideal life look like? |
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| What does it mean to die well? |
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| How would you like to die? Comfortably in bed surrounded by family, doing something you love, or some other way? |
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| Who do you know who is living life to the fullest? |
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| If you were given an envelope with the the time and date of your death inside, would you open it? |
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| If you died today, what regrets would you have about your life? |
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| Is taking a life ever justified? If so, where is the line? When is a person’s life considered forfeit? |
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| What do you think about the singularity? The idea that eventually artificial intelligence will advance to the point where computers are more intelligent than humans. |
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| What are the pros and cons of colonizing other planets? How could this help or hurt the human race? |
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| What is most likely to bring about the extinction of the human race? How can it be avoided? |
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| Will humans as a species ever be able to work together as a whole to achieve a goal? What is holding humans back from working together on a global scale? |
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| Will humanity continue to advance technologically or will we fall back to how we lived for thousands of years or fall back further to how we lived for a hundred thousand years ago? |
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| What would be the best possible scenario for how the world will develop in the next 25 years? What do we need to do to get there? |
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| Do animals experience emotions? If so, do they experience emotions in the same way humans do? If not, how do they experience the world and what dictates their behavior? |
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| How are emotions useful for humans and the human race? |
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| Are emotions necessary for human survival? Why or why not? |
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| What is the most beneficial emotion? How about the most destructive? |
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| Do people have a right to be happy or should they have to earn it? |
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| What do most people think about you that is absolutely not true? |
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| Is it okay to sacrifice one life to save ten? If you said yes, would you change answer if the one life was a friend’s life and the ten were strangers? If no, why not? |
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| What should they teach in high school but don’t? |
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| Which movie or book do you think is ridiculously overrated? |
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| Who would you most like to sit next to on a 10 hour flight and why? |
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| What are two things you know you should how to do but don’t? |
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| You have $100 to burn, all your friends are busy and you have the whole day to yourself, what do you do? |
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| What makes you say “What was I thinking?” when you look back on your life? |
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| How useful would you be in a zombie apocalypse? What skills do you have that would help you and others survive? |
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| What is something you’ve done that you wish you could undo? |
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| What inscription do you want on your gravestone? |
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| What is something that can’t be taught and can only be learned with age? |
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| If you could be born again and choose what nationality, gender, and race to be, what would you choose? Why? |
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| If you could live your life again knowing what you do now, what would you change? |
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| How much do you change when you know no one is around? |
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| How much do you know about the world outside your country? |
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| What is a cause that is worth dedicating your life to? |
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| What should parents stop teaching their children? |
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| What simple change could you make in your life that would have the biggest positive impact? |
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| If you were falsely convicted of a crime, how would you adapt to prison life? |
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| What piece of media (book, movie, TV show, etc.) changed the way you viewed the world? In what way? |
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| What is your dream job and what makes it so amazing? |
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| What event in your life would make a good movie? |
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| What job doesn’t exist but should? |
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| If your life was a movie, what songs would be on the soundtrack? |
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| Which movie do they need to a sequel to? |
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| What would be the most ironic way that someone could die? |
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| Do you enjoy overcoming challenges or do you prefer things to be easy? Why? |
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| What is the most challenging job you can think of? |
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| What is the best criteria to measure success by? |
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| Have you ever turned a failure into a win? |
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