Settling a bet: Hearing vs Money
 

A friend and myself are completely polarized by the following proposition.

Would you give up your hearing forever for 20 million dollars?

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make it 35 million and you've got a deal.

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this is v v easy.

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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QFT... and I am pretty money hungry

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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i need to be able to hear to do too many of things i like to do.

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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I wouldn't give up my hearing for any amount of money....

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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i need to be able to hear to do too many of things i like to do.

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20 billion can buy a whole lot of different things you like to do.

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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I wouldn't give up my hearing for any amount of money....

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Lie.

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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I wouldn't give up my hearing for any amount of money....

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Lie.

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prop bet?

Let's go $100K that I will not give up my hearing for whatever amount!

BTW, I am dead serious about this.. money is just not that important IMO compared to my sight or hearing....

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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i need to be able to hear to do too many of things i like to do.

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20 billion can buy a whole lot of different things you like to do.

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no music= [censored] that

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I think I'd much rather not hear 90% of people.

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I'm shocked 20 mil and no hearing is winning... you guys have no perspective. 20 mil isn't even that much.

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Yea, 20 million sounds about right.

A quick ballpark guess of what I'd sell my senses for:
Sense of smell - 1/2 a million
Sight - 40 million
Sense of taste - 5 million
Sense of touch - 1 billion
6th Sense - Handful of magic beans

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ill prob be a millionnaire before im 25, so no. never

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ill prob be 24 before im 25

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Agreed.

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I'd need something like 20 Billion, take one for the team and setup all of my family and friends for life.

- communicating with everyone I care about becomes much more of a burden

- hearing absolutely NOTHING forever would SUCK.

- No Music forever is huge.

- jobs really limited

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I would not give up any of my senses for any amount of money(assuming taste and smell go together, otherwise i might be willing to part with smell for like 10 million.)

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I might give up the ability to talk for alot of $. Other than that, I wouldn't give up anything.

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the whole point of having money is to hear people tell you how awesome you are, so no

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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I wouldn't give up my hearing for any amount of money....

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Lie.

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prop bet?

Let's go $100K that I will not give up my hearing for whatever amount!

BTW, I am dead serious about this.. money is just not that important IMO compared to my sight or hearing....

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Someone has your entire family locked in a room with a bomb. The only way to get them out alive is for you to take $20 million dollars and give up your hearing.

I win. Or do you let your family die so you can hear at their mass funeral?

I accept Paypal for the $100K

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Yea, 20 million sounds about right.

A quick ballpark guess of what I'd sell my senses for:
Sense of smell - 1/2 a million
Sight - 40 million
Sense of taste - 5 million
Sense of touch - 1 billion
6th Sense - Handful of magic beans

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lol @ giving up sight for 40 mil

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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I wouldn't give up my hearing for any amount of money....

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Lie.

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prop bet?

Let's go $100K that I will not give up my hearing for whatever amount!

BTW, I am dead serious about this.. money is just not that important IMO compared to my sight or hearing....

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Someone has your entire family locked in a room with a bomb. The only way to get them out alive is for you to take $20 million dollars and give up your hearing.

I win. Or do you let your family die so you can hear at their mass funeral?

I accept Paypal for the $100K

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This seems perfectly within the confines of the bet. I guess he owes you 100k.

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What if you could still hear ukes only?

Then how much would it cost to give up your hearing for everything but ukes?

20 bucks over here

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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I wouldn't give up my hearing for any amount of money....

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Lie.

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prop bet?

Let's go $100K that I will not give up my hearing for whatever amount!

BTW, I am dead serious about this.. money is just not that important IMO compared to my sight or hearing....

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Someone has your entire family locked in a room with a bomb. The only way to get them out alive is for you to take $20 million dollars and give up your hearing.

I win. Or do you let your family die so you can hear at their mass funeral?

I accept Paypal for the $100K

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This seems perfectly within the confines of the bet. I guess he owes you 100k.

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Yeah that's kind of what I was figuring too. (We'll see if he goes for it)

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Smell is the only sense I would consider giving up for any amount of money.

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I'll take $20 million for my hearing.

How expensive can Hearing Aids really be?

Definitely a +EV investment.

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Some guy like in the Saw movies should kill anyone who would accept the money.

You can't appreciate life, you don't deserve it.

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I'll take $20 million for my hearing.

How expensive can Hearing Aids really be?

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lol. you can't use hearing aids if you have 0 hearing. hearing aids only amplify the sounds coming in so that the you can hear them with what little hearing you have. it wouldn't matter how loud the sounds coming in are, if you're completely deaf, you won't hear it.

now, perhaps you could get a cochlear implant. but with cochlear implants, sounds aren't natural, clear, or vibrant. you can "train" your brain to understand speech when you use a cochlear implant, but listening to music would be difficult.

btw i am a hearing aid wearer - i have 0 hearing in my right ear and about 1/2 of normal hearing in my left ear. i wear hearing aids and do pretty well.

disclaimer: i know you can't use hearing aids if you are completely deaf, but as i don't use cochlear implants, i can't guarantee that i'm right about those. i think i am, though.

to answer the question: since i expect to make enough money to live comfortably off of, i wouldn't want to lose what remaining hearing i have for $20 million. i don't know how much it would have to be. $100 million? A billion? i dunno.

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I'll take the $20 million with the hopes they figure out a way through surgery to get it back.

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Can I change my answer? I just realized if I lost my hearing the voices in my head would get louder.

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As someone who's already basically deaf in one ear, hell no. In fact, I would give up a lot of money just to get stereo hearing back.

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Not 20mil. But 20b I would give it up easy. My sweet spot is prob in the 1b+ range...

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take 20 mil, get a hearing aide

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id take it then find some degen who would take 10 million to surgically transfer his ears to me.

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take 20 mil, get a hearing aide

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Must've already given up he sense to read...

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If someone offered me 20 billion to give up my hearing id turn it down.

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I call BS.

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I wouldn't give up my hearing for any amount of money....

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Lie.

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prop bet?

Let's go $100K that I will not give up my hearing for whatever amount!

BTW, I am dead serious about this.. money is just not that important IMO compared to my sight or hearing....

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Someone has your entire family locked in a room with a bomb. The only way to get them out alive is for you to take $20 million dollars and give up your hearing.

I win. Or do you let your family die so you can hear at their mass funeral?

I accept Paypal for the $100K

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This seems perfectly within the confines of the bet. I guess he owes you 100k.

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Yeah that's kind of what I was figuring too. (We'll see if he goes for it)

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qft you owe him 100k

pay that man his money

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OP here:

I really don't see how anybody would give up hearing for any amount of money. I'm surprised money means that much to people here. I mean we only live once. Why not keep all the natural abilities that are given to us by birth. A small part of me also thinks I will be a multi-millonare too one day, though I'm not even close now.

I actually don't even think I would give up one of my toes for any amount of money.

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in short, money can't necesarily buy happiness, whereas spoken language and music can bring happiness. who cares if ur rich but u can't even enjoy a night out at a movie? or go to the beach and listen to the waves at night? or bang a hot chick and hear her moan? etc.