# What is the most negative thing that you can know of/imagine **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 4, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145 "2016-04-04T01:49:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/21 "2016-04-05T13:53:14Z")
A friend once told me that his vision of Hell was being forced to watch, over and over again for all eternity, movies of every incident in in your life in which you hurt someone (although I suppose this is only effective if you are not afflicted with [antisocial personality disorder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder)). ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/22 "2016-04-05T18:00:54Z")
Running out of maple syrup before I finish my waffles. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/23 "2016-04-05T18:12:32Z")
Having to substitute pancake syrup for real maple syrup. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/24 "2016-04-05T21:00:51Z")
For me, the realization that there is a lot (too much) sadism in the world. This realization came when I started volunteering in international dog rescue. As bad as neglect is, outright sadism is unforgivable. I’ve heard of too many animals rescued from scenarios where you can just visualize the perpetrators standing around drinking beer and laughing at the screams. (I also need brain bleach.) It only got worse with all the torture news coming out of the middle east and I realized that we’ll never “solve” animal cruelty in the world until we “solve” human cruelty. And that’s not happening any time soon. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/25 "2016-04-05T22:39:43Z")
For a lighter answer: How about the square of i (imaginary number)? Not only is it negative, but also not real and not cool. No wonder its absolute value is the loneliest number. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/26 "2016-04-05T22:48:47Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > Do you really believe this crap ??? Of course not, I’m an atheist. But the OP didn’t ask for what I\* believed;\* it asked for what I could _imagine._ ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/27 "2016-04-05T23:02:32Z")
Limp bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/28 "2016-04-06T00:49:08Z")
A never-ending toothache, for the rest of my life, with no remedy in sight. I’d rather have a migraine. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/29 "2016-04-06T00:59:07Z")
I ain’t got no none unnegatives never nohow. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/30 "2016-04-07T05:35:41Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > No sense in letting a little something like definition stand in one’s way. I really just wanted to research the ASCII code for the infinity symbol. Once I found it, I had to post it. To not do so would have been emotionally negative /repelling/scary/depressing/etc. Well, I tried posting: [noparse] -∞ [/noparse] but when I tried to preview it, my browser imploded trying to display it and reduced my computer to a singularity. (ETA: Yes, I’m posting from my neighbor’s computer now.) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/32 "2016-04-07T12:35:51Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Well, I tried posting: > [noparse] -∞ [/noparse] > but when I tried to preview it, my browser imploded trying to display it and reduced my computer to a singularity. (ETA: Yes, I’m posting from my neighbor’s computer now.) Ooooooooo, I wanna see! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145/33 "2016-04-07T18:01:31Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > -∞ Ninjaed! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-negative-thing-that-you-can-know-of-imagine/751145.md?page=1)