# Death is not an option: Sex: The followup **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053 "2011-12-22T05:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 68
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/68 "2011-12-25T06:14:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > May I ask you, **Senor Beef** , why the fuck is this so important to you? I don’t like being condescended to by people who are being ridiculous. This thread (the follow up) is to demonstrate and quantify the ridiculousness. > [@Death is not an option: Sex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/7): > > God, the one person that voted for parental sex… Get yourself to a shrink! > [@Death is not an option: Sex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/11): > > Only a bona-fide sex addict (or someone who’s completely naive about the effects of sexual trauma) would pick Door #1. > [@Death is not an option: Sex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/16): > > 12 people voted to have sex with their parent? 12? Ugh. > [@Death is not an option: Sex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/23): > > That one was easy. > > I can’t believe how many people picked door one. > [@Death is not an option: Sex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/30): > > I just want to know who the 16 people who would have sex with their parents are. > [@Death is not an option: Sex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/55): > > I am having problem believing there are people that would actually opt to have sex with a parent in this scenario. Gross..gross…gross! > [@Death is not an option: Sex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/81): > > as of this post, rougly 15% of you are seriously fucking disgusting. > [@Death is not an option: Sex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/83): > > I hope that at least SOME of those who chose option #1 did so as a joke. _vomit_ I’m fine with people just picking option 2. I think most of them are delusional - not lying, simply too weak minded to truly evaluate the situation and therefore go with the easy answer. If actually facing the situation for real, they’d choose otherwise. If that’s all it was, I wouldn’t have said anything. But those people had to go the extra mile and assert that anyone who would say otherwise, to actually admit they’d make the choice - the choice that most of the people in the thread would take if actually in that situation - other people have to insult them and declare to be revolted. That’s the part that gets me. That isn’t to say I don’t think anyone would legitimately pick option 2. Never having sex again is a variable punishment. If you’re like a lot of SDMBers, you probably aren’t getting much in the way of valuable sex and you might not anticipate ever having sex again. Makes the decision pretty easy, right? If you’re James Bond, and you’re banging a different one of the most beautiful women in the world every few days, it would obviously be a much harsher punishment. So I wanted to make the punishment more universal and extreme. Hence the choices we can all recognize to be bad - being blind, being crippled, etc. Now it was my hypothesis that everyone in that thread was being a gigantic fucking pussy (I mean come on, it’s a silly hypothetical question, you have to act SO VERY OUTRAGED!!! AND DISGUSTED!!! that anyone could ask a hypothetical question because you have sticks up all your asses and like to be offended for no good reason) and continue with their delusions and judgements. And I was right. As of now, 42% of the thread respondants indicate that they’d rather be blind or completely crippled from the neck down rather than face one night of discomfort that did no permanent damage. This, to any rational human being, is absurd. No one could possibly choose avoiding a temporary, non-damaging discomfort in exchange for an extremely damaging, permanent handicap, lifelong discomfort that removes almost all of your quality of life. As I said, I could see people actually making choice 2 in the other thread, depending on how valuable sex to them was. I can’t see anyone in this thread choosing the latter options because being able to use your body or your eyes is obviously overwhelmingly valuable to everyone. Hence, that response proves that the people are delusional. No one would actually take that answer, but almost half of them claim they would because they’re unable to stomach answering a simple hypothetical question. And they’re so outraged and disgusted that their super delicate offenderati sensibilities have been set off to even have to consider the question. So - the combination - people who are clearly delusional, who were, in the other thread, insulting other people for being disgusting when in reality they were simply non-delusional, bothers me. Any time anyone insults other from a position of weakmindedness bothers me. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053)._