{"id":145,"date":"2012-12-28T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nialangley.com\/blog\/the-book-of-questions-question-60_28.html"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:30:23","slug":"the-book-of-questions-question-60_28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nialangley.com\/blog\/the-book-of-questions-question-60_28\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Questions: Question 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"text-align: left;\">For those of you not familiar with my <\/span><i style=\"text-align: left;\">The Book of Questions<\/i><span style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;feature, I select a question from <\/span><i style=\"text-align: left;\">The Book of Questions <\/i><span style=\"text-align: left;\">by Gregory Stock, Ph.D., write my response, and ask for your response.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-v37jov_ED0w\/UN24O3aOdbI\/AAAAAAAAC_M\/5sffjMGNoRk\/s1600\/question-mark.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nialangley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/question-mark.jpg?resize=320%2C272&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nQUESTION 60:<br \/>\n<b>Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened?<\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/><\/b>MY RESPONSE:<br \/>\n<i>No, I wouldn&#8217;t. A year could be a lot to give to someone, but it also could be a lot to take from someone. I couldn&#8217;t possibly take that much from a stranger.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, it would matter to me if I were told whose life I&#8217;d shortened. It would probably mess me up emotionally.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<b>GIVE ME YOUR RESPONSE!<\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/><\/b><br \/>\nxoxo<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-mlAI_0sVFHE\/UN241Pw4DtI\/AAAAAAAAC_U\/3K9TLPQossw\/s1600\/Nia%2BLangleySignature.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"148\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nialangley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Nia-LangleySignature-1.jpg?resize=320%2C148&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Picture: No copyright infringement intended.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you not familiar with my The Book of Questions&nbsp;feature, I select a question from The Book of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-book-of-questions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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