5 million for insanity

[PyroChamber]

If a psychologist offered you five million dollars to participate in an experiment that would make you experience what it's like to be insane for a week, would you take it?

 

[enterthemadness]

I would take it and it would be a piece of cake.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I've paid TO experience insanity.
My friend was just officially diagnosed as a "Paranoid Schizophrenic" and he'd done acid before and he said when it kicked in really bad (which is how he got diagnosed, ending up in the emergency room after one i.n.s.a.n.e., terrifying night), it was exactly like an extremely intense bad acid trip, only he hadn't done any acid, so the warped reality seemed like "real" reality as he didn't have in the back of his mind, "Whoa, this is powerful stuff."


Really silly question. 5ive Million dollars? for just one week, and then you're sane again, with just a memory of insanity?
You'd have to be insane to say no.

 

[Manic]

Well, if you're made insane for a full week, I doubt the experience could be shrugged off once it's over. There'd be a stain on your sanity that you'd have to work to get rid of.

However, 5 million dollars can buy you a lot of therapy...

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I maintain that everyone on Earth is insane, just in different ways and to varying degrees.

There are psychos who will go out and kill someone just to feel the power of snuffing out a life.
There are others who could simply write a check and send food to starving people to save their lives, but don't, and instead they overeat and throw tons of food away a year, just throw it away.

Both are dangerously insane.

 

[Morg]

If a psychologist offered you five million dollars to participate in an experiment that would make you experience what it's like to be insane for a week, would you take it?

sure, already insane so it'll be easy money for me

 

[tzarinna]

I'd have a go at it.

 

[Strange]

sure, already insane so it'll be easy money for me

Do you hear voices in your head?

 

[Killgore]

Are we talking masterbating into your own feces insane, or just acting like a woman for a week?

 

[Morg]

Do you hear voices in your head?

yes and they keep telling me to ban you all

 

[Strange]

yes and they keep telling me to ban you all

In my professional opinion you should just ignore those voices. t:

 

[blind_fury]

Lets make it a year of insanity to make things interesting. A week is way too easy.

 

[Strange]

Lets make it a year of insanity to make things interesting. A week is way too easy.

What if it was just one week but you were anal raped the entire time while listening to a bad cover band of Jefferson Airplane?

 

[Tangled Web]

Of course. $5 million is a lot of money. Would I be in a controled environment? Because it would kind of suck if you did something to ruin your life while insane.

 

[Speedball]

Sounds like fun.
Can I have those drugs they gave Baltar in Battlestar Galactica?

 

[blind_fury]

It also depends on the level of insanity. Is it talking-to-yourself crazy or smearing-feces-on-the-wall crazy?

 

[PyroChamber]

It also depends on the level of insanity. Is it talking-to-yourself crazy or smearing-feces-on-the-wall crazy?

I would say more like Joker insane.

 

[redmarvel]

I would take it, if they met some criteria:

1. Guarantee that I would be placed in an institution where I could not be hurt nor hurt anyone else while insane.

2. Guarantee that if the experiment were to suffer a catastrophic failure they would pay 10 times the amount to my family (If I die, If I kill someone, If I can not regain my sanity)

3. Guarantee that the original amount offered is mine even though the experiment might not work out as expected. (I get the $5 million even if they find they can't make me insane)

4. They would have to pay half up front, another quarter halfway through the experiment and the final quarter at the end of the week... unless they can't restore my sanity in which case they would have to pay the 45.5 million in daily installments of $1 million until my sanity is regained.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

I would take it, if they met some criteria:

1. Guarantee that I would be placed in an institution where I could not be hurt nor hurt anyone else while insane.

2. Guarantee that if the experiment were to suffer a catastrophic failure they would pay 10 times the amount to my family (If I die, If I kill someone, If I can not regain my sanity)

3. Guarantee that the original amount offered is mine even though the experiment might not work out as expected. (I get the $5 million even if they find they can't make me insane)

4. They would have to pay half up front, another quarter halfway through the experiment and the final quarter at the end of the week... unless they can't restore my sanity in which case they would have to pay the 45.5 million in daily installments of $1 million until my sanity is regained.

Very well stated

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I would take it also,i would just prefer no harm come to my body.

 

[Cmill216]

You'd have to be insane to say no.

That's why they make you sign the contract during the experiment.

 

[Strange]

I would do it for a lifetime supply of starbucks coffee.

 

[WorthyStevens]

I would kill someone to make that $5 million. And hey, that's an automatic not guilty by reason of insanity!

 

[Master Chief]

I'd do it for ten bucks.

 

[Strange]

I'd do it for five bucks and the opportunity to havd sex with a dwarf.