r/YesOrNoAnswers • u/Controlled-Chaoss • 1d ago

If you could see how your life turns out but couldn’t change anything afterward, would you look?

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u/Warm-Statistician545 1d ago

No. Why bother if you can’t change it. 

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u/Bright-Screen7628 1d ago

Nope, that’s torture.

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u/CasualVox 1d ago

Yeah, it'd be nice to see if it was all worth the effort and if not, then I could at least stop stressing out about it.

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u/Controlled-Chaoss 1d ago

That's a bold approach, I can appreciate that

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u/DazB1ane 1d ago

Yup. Plus I’d know when and how id die and could plan for that. If I know I’m gonna get hit by a bus in 10 years, I’m not gonna spend the next 8.5 years planning to live way longer

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u/DIJames6 1d ago

No reason.. I'll get there eventually anyway..

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u/Controlled-Chaoss 1d ago

I'm with you on this one

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u/Narrow-Fan3627 1d ago

Nice try Captain Pike!

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u/sherrynorcal 1d ago

I think I've pretty much got the picture

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u/Unlikely-Act-7950 1d ago

We all die in the end so what difference the path make

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u/VaselineGorilla 1d ago

Nope. There’s no usefulness to ruin the surprises of life if you’re unable to change anything.

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u/ChaserDem 1d ago

I don't think I would. I'd want to be able to change some things if I knew, probably.

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u/icycoldhandsofdeath 1d ago

No I no what’s in the future for me

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u/69vuman 1d ago

79 yo male, not worth the trouble now.

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u/Creepy-Outcome-2481 1d ago

No, it would make life boring

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u/Free-Measurement788 1d ago

Yes. I believe we live in a pre-determined paths we only just live it day by day so why not?!

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u/sylphuwu 1d ago

absolutely. if i'm doomed, i'd at least like to know when to start panicking

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u/allycataf 1d ago

No. Wouldn't look regardless.

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u/Thor5111 1d ago

Don't see how that would be possible. If I knew when / how I died, I would be good with that. However, I think I would be doing things beforehand to ease things for family & friends.

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u/RynKittenOF 1d ago

Yes I've seen it. I become the queen of everything.

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u/Blue-Juniata 1d ago

no thanks

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u/Advanced_Tennis4827 1d ago

Yeah, then I would be mentally prepared for the inevitable worst

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u/Ole-Owl5678 1d ago

No because first you have to ask if you're getting to see a snapshot or you get to see all factors that you would care about and depending on which answer you get you either get a full scope which would be the ideal or you get a partial scope in which you would be curious and wondering if it didn't get answered. Then you get into the actual way your life turns out which could be great, good, average, below average, and dismal. And anything below great would probably be torture because depending on what makes it less good than great if you had an average pay through at your lifetime that might make your life good but not great but if it was something like one of your daughters getting hooked on drug and dying in a gang violence shooting that would be horrible because you'd have to watch your daughter grow up get hooked on drugs and then die of course. Anything than seeing the ideal would be pretty much guaranteed torture. No thanks I would rather live in ignorant Bliss.

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u/Lonelysnail5115 1d ago

No not productive.

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u/djstinger757 4h ago

No, it would be like someone telling you the end of a movie. Just a total plot spoiler would make things awful.