What if you were to find out that everything you've ever believed in-

...was wrong?

(Taken from this *awesome* story.)

I myself would probably turn Chaotic Evil or something weird like that, given my calculated sort of morality.

What would you do? How would you feel? Would you change?

edited 15th Mar '11 2:13:05 PM by TheMightyAnonym

Cling onto those ideals harder and fight to make them right.

You'd make the sky green? That's going to take a lot of pollution...

edited 15th Mar '11 2:13:58 PM by TheMightyAnonym

Science, baby, science.

EDIT: Nah, that makes the sky brown. I'm thinking of other ways...

edited 15th Mar '11 3:19:32 PM by Usht

"Cling onto those ideals harder and fight to make them right."

With a side helping of eventually giving up whether because I came to my senses or because the opposition broke me through sheer force of size and will. The latter is much more likely I think. Is this rational? Hell no. It is likely to happen though.

In conclusion? I would not be well. At all.

edited 15th Mar '11 2:30:09 PM by Aondeug

Ontological shock, that's what I'd be getting a big helping of.

I hear it's not pleasant to go through.

Go completely off the deep end, probably. After that, I haven't a clue what would happen.

How should I know? For one there, there are an infinite number of situations in which this could happen, so divergent that I can't generalize.

edited 15th Mar '11 2:29:38 PM by Tzetze

I would start by massacring my own side for spreading such lies.
Of course, that implies that I am in a war in the first place, and have somewhat authority or knowledge of internal organization structure.

This, most likely.

Fuck the universe, make the earth green.

As for me, I don't know. Maybe I'd Go Mad from the Revelation, maybe I won't accept it, maybe i'll go through the X stages of Whatever, I don't know.

It would depend on the specifics, I suppose.

Heck, maybe I'd pretend that I had seen the sky and it was really green. I don't know.

Giving up and going crazy because the things you love aren't widespread is not the answer.

For the record, the sky does turn green twice a day due to color spectrum wackiness, it just happens so fast you can't perceive it, so HAH!

Seriously, it does, right before sun set and right after dawn.

edited 15th Mar '11 3:23:22 PM by Usht

I think it's far more likely some or all of the Greens from that story will simply deny that that is sky. It can't be sky, because while a nice colour blue it isn't cerulean by any sane measure.

It wouldn't be that surprising. I don't believe in anything, I believe. I think.

If I were proven wrong, proven wrong, or even just very heavily seeming wrong-

I would change my goddamn opinion so it reflected reality, not keep claiming I was right like a petulant child.

Honestly, I'm a little worried about the people that are saying they would only fight harder. It reminds me (and it should remind you) of people who still believe the earth is flat in the face of all the evidence against that.

Or are we talking about moral positions? Because there's no way to "prove" those wrong, so there's no point in even speculating about it.

Well, see, if the world has functioning like X for the past several years, you know, since I was born, and it suddenly started functioning in a Y manner without rhyme or reason, I'd right it because there was no logical jump from X to Y.

edited 15th Mar '11 4:11:49 PM by Usht

"Or are we talking about moral positions? Because there's no way to "prove" those wrong, so there's no point in even speculating about it."

What if moral realism is true?

Those propositions are subjectively true depending on how one looks at the world. Objectively or otherwise, there's always more than one answer for how to react to a situation, thus the matter of action to take will almost always be subjective.

These two things, they are le contradicting. And how would you know it happened without rhyme or reason without first assuming it didn't, and then investigating.

This is getting into the "kind of silly" range of hypotheticals, though. I mean, it was on the border to start with.

Edit:

But even if it was true, you could never prove it was true, which is what I said.

edited 15th Mar '11 4:12:14 PM by deathjavu

Erm, typo, there was supposed to be a "no" there. And now there is.

I'd probably investigate, but I'm still sure I'm at an age where my memories aren't going wack.

I worry about this, since my entire worldview is built off the idea that representative democracy is generally reliable, and I'm beginning to see more and more evidence that it doesn't work. I don't know of any system that I would trust to replace democracy, so I'd probably just get really depressed and cynical.

I would be fascinated, and after acclimating to my new environment, investigate what it was that led me to such incorrect conclusions.

For the most part, I think I'd be excited at the possibility that discovering such a major truth would open up the opportunity for more such discoveries.

I would miss my cheeses, though... :/

OR: I would do nothing, because if everything I believed was wrong, "I exist" would be the first to go.

^^ In that particular case, the answer is to set about finding something that does work better. In the meantime, broken though it may be, it's the best we've got.

edited 15th Mar '11 4:31:14 PM by Pykrete