Is there anybody who wouldn’t choose blue?
It’s a cruel, cruel fantasy.
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Clarissa's Blog 
How about pills that say, “Make someone dead” or “Live forever”?
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Black pill to me, no doubt.
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I don’t take any pills unless they’ve been on the market at least ten years and I know what the side effects are.
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This is my favorite comment ever!
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“Choose only one pill”
This gives me serious monkey paw vibes… no matter how you choose you lose….
Be rich: The next day the IRA shows up wanting to know where all this money came from and opens up a whole bunch of investigations…
Bring someone dead back: Exactly in the condition they were in when they passed and that can’t be changed….
Never feel pain: Or anything else! You have no feeling anywhere in your body!
Never catch a disease: Monkey paw didn’t say anything about buses jumping the curb, now did it? Or catch a stray meteorite… with your head (not a disease!).
The only way to win is to not play.
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There are people who cannot feel pain (because of a genetic abnormality, they lack the channel that conducts pain from the periphery to the brain) and it is a terrible condition – they can get serious tissue injuries during day-to-day life because they don’t realize and don’t pull away/stop . Normal pain is adaptive and helpful. (Unlike chronic pain, which is debilitating. If there was a pill to cure maladaptive chronic pain, I would get that and give it to my husband.)
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IIRC this is the problem in Hansen’s disease also (leprosy)– the disease doesn’t make people’s fingers and toes and noses fall off directly. It just makes them not feel anything… so they’re more likely to get cut, burned, smashed, whatever, and then not cared for appropriately. It’s surprisingly hard to care about picking up something too hot, when you can’t feel it.
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Yes, you’re right – it damages the peripheral nerves so they lose sensation.
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If being rich would let you cure your sick child or ensure your disabled child has a good quality of life, or hell, even feed your children if you cannot afford to, you’d pick that. Money is not only about designer clothes.
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