1 Would you choose a male or a female lawyer to represent you if you were accused of murder?
I would choose the best lawyer, quite regardless of gender. Much like being taken to an emergency room and needing immediate care, I'm NOT going to concern myself with superficialities such as ethnicity, gender, height, or eye color—all I care about is working with the best possible professional for the job. Anyway, the most inherently forceful and assured attorney I've ever known is female, younger than me, and quite beautiful.
Strikingly, an image search for a line drawing using only the word "lawyer" resulted in about 98% images of men....
it depends how much "interference" would be needed. A snarky word in the right ear? Hell yeah. A pipe bomb? No. There's a difference between healthy competition and control-freak.
3 Would you prefer to possess great physical strength or be naturally graceful?
I would gladly settle for strength relative to my size and age, and physical 'grace' sufficient to keep me from falling over or running into things
4 Would you rather lead or follow?
HA! I'll happily follow - about 75% of the time. The rest, though... it's safest to get out of the way.
5 Would you hire someone who was clearly smarter than you?
absolutely!! How will I get better at anything if I don't have someone to teach and/or challenge me? Is my goal to have the best, most qualified employees, or to have my own ego protected? Anyway, some of the best people I know, the ones I like the very most, are for sure smarter than I am. We might not know the same things, but each of us has our strengths. I love hanging around people are smart, no matter the circumstances!
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| nuke plant |
Sure. If something goes reallyreallyreally wrong, whether you're twenty miles away or two hundred miles away isn't going to matter enough to get riled about it. Besides, with a nuke plant paying property taxes, the base is going to be sufficient to make household taxes far less than they would be otherwise. That means good roads, good schools, and good public services, at a lower cost to residents. Bring it on!
7 Would you ever consider the death penalty an appropriate punishment for a person under the age of eighteen?
absolutely. There are some profoundly fucked up kids, and their age doesn't make a bit of difference to what they do or why they do it. There are enhancements and aggravating factors that are considered when sentencing adults; the same should always be considered when sentencing children for the most serious crimes.
money, for sure. Power exists in the eye of the beholder, it can be fleeting, and it sometimes (often) spins around to bite the unwary. Best just to have stockpiles of cash!
9 Would you rather sit next to the founder of a business or the founder of a charity at a dinner party?
the founder of a business would be more naturally compelling to me than that of a charity. Despite efforts to be converted, I'm not a philanthropic person by nature. And, to be frank, I have little tolerance for self-satisfied "givers."
10 Would you turn in someone you know and like, upon discovering they were a criminal in hiding? well, that depends - doesn't it? If I found out that someone I love had evaded paying a parking ticket, I can guarantee that I wouldn't bother sharing that information with the authorities. There's a couple of sliding scales of importance at work there. However, if I found out that a colleague or acquaintance (even one that I like reasonably well) had committed a serious crime, I would likely feel compelled to do something about it. Some people might get pointed encouragement to turn themselves in, but others would be informed upon, with no excuses offered.
[from Would You?: Questions to Challenge Your Beliefs and adapted; the title quotation is by Voltaire]
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