1 Would you like the government to install extensive car and road sensors and automatically ticket anyone speeding, rolling through stop signs, or parking illegally?
how about instead of that technology, we focus efforts on creating safer roads, safer cars, better road lighting, more comprehensive driver instruction training requirements, and so forth?
2 If you could take a one-month trip anywhere in the world and money were not a consideration, where would you go and what would you do?
I'd go look for a house in Canada
3 Do you think people in previous centuries were more adventurous than we are or simply more used to risk?
no more or less, just different. I mean, they presumably had different priorities—food, water, shelter—than modern people. Modern folks' need or desire for risk and adventure cannot be focused on those basic necessities, because the payoff is way too easy. We have to make it more complicated, with jealousies and drama and immature greed.
4 Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, adventure, intoxicating successes, and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family, without wide swings of fortune and mood?
I might prefer the former, but more easily live with the latter.
5 Have you ever made a big sacrifice for someone and kept it to yourself?
yes
6 How much does fame impress you?
very little. I've always preferred to run beneath the radar, and am suspicious of those who behave differently.
7 You're with friends at an icy mountain lake on a warm sunny day. If you knew it'd be a harsh, bracing shock to jump in, but that later you'd be refreshed and glad you'd done it, would you take the leap?
God, never. I hate being cold, and shockingly cold is horrendous.
[from The Book of Questions; the title quotation is by Shivanshu K. Srivastava]
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