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CellarDweller:
This is a poll taken from the book, "The Day America Told The Truth" by James Patterson & Peter Kim, published in 1991.

It was featured on an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", and after watching it, I went out and got the book.

Very intersting read at the time.  I'm sure by now the figures are out of date.

Vote for your answers, post about  your answers, and if it goes well, I'll do some of the other surveys from the book!  Since it's possible for people to be willing to do all 10 options, you are free to vote for all the options.

CellarDweller:
as you can see, I'm the first voter.

 :laugh:

I have no strong ties to a church, so abandoning my church would not be a problem.  Besides, it says abandon your CHURCH, not your RELIGION, so you an always find another church in the religion of your choice.

as for prostitution, this may sound strange, but I don't see anything wrong with it.  I mean, why is it ok to have sex for free, but wrong to charge money for it?

optom3:
I would become a prostitute for a green card never mind 10 million, give up church,never started with that.I wouldn't have a problem with a race change either. I would not kill or abandon my family for any sum, or put my kids up for adoption.
It reminds me of the age old which would you rather lose, sight or hearing. For me it would be sight, could not cope without my music.
I would leave my spouse, get the 10 million, buy myself an American husband, get green card, then go back to husband, after having given new husband most of  the 10 million.
Would divorce new husband, get green cards for my kids and then when the oldest could, would get him to sponsor his father's green card. Just in case of any suspicion I would keep some of the money to buy a second house where I would allegedly live incase of suspicion.Meanwhile I would of course be back with husband.
If you think that's complicated you should hear some of my other schemes for a green card.

dejavu:
That scheme for a green card does sound complicated.    :laugh:

I wouldn't have a problem with abandoning my church either.  Likewise for changing my race.  I'd consider changing my gender, if it was a painless and instantaneous process.

I can't disagree with the logic that sex for money isn't wrong, but I wouldn't be comfortable with sex with strangers, so I couldn't become a prostitute for a week. 

I'm not married and don't have children, but if I were and if I did, I wouldn't abandon my spouse or my children or my whole family because people are more important to me than any amount of money.  Likewise, my American citizenship makes me feel safe, so I wouldn't give that up.  And no, I wouldn't kill a stranger for money.

It would be tempting and fairly painless to withhold testimony, but letting a murderer go free could cause such bad consequences to someone else that I'd have to resist that temptation.  Of all the choices here, that may be the decision that requires the most thought about ethics and morals, because the murderer's next victim would probably be someone unknown to me.

Kelda:
I would do four outta ten..

my american citizenship since I have none, race, church (Like Fiona not an issue for me) and probably even prostitution for a week... hell with even a little of that $10million I could get a lot of vulnerable people outta that trade.

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