Would you take a love potion to save the world? (Poll)

[minacia]

One day, an oracle visits you and explains that your friend is fated to destroy the world... unless you take action to change their fate.​

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Basically, your friend is extremely lonely. Although their gender is compatible with your sexuality, you are not attracted to them for various reasons. Their personality is kind of meh, they are mentally unstable/broken, and honestly they're a little bit ugly. That said, you've put up with them as your friend, but you would never consider dating them.​

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The oracle explains that at this rate, your friend will despair from their inability to find love and manifest incredible destructive powers. Specifically, they will become immortal (impossible to kill through any means), and gradually spiral out of control until finally they destroy all life on the planet within five years.​

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The oracle says that they have peered into many futures, and this world fate is unavoidable except through one path:​

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You must fall in love with your friend!​

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The oracle is understanding that you don't like your friend right now...​

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But no worries! The oracle has a love potion. If you drink it, you will permanently fall in love with your friend, and consequently save the world with your subsequent actions. The oracle assures you that you will feel and think perfectly normal after drinking the potion, and your feelings will be just like the other times you have ever been in love.​

1. Would you drink a love potion to save the world? Why or why not?

2. Is there anything wrong with fake love produced by a potion? What if you felt happy in a relationship because of the potion?

3. Suppose that the oracle slipped the potion in your food without telling you. You fall in love with your friend, and live very happily ever after with them ...But afterwards you find out that it was all due to a love potion. How would you react upon discovering that your feelings were fake all along?

4. (Unrelated to this scenario) Suppose that you got married, but in recent years you have started fighting a lot with your spouse. The two of you are considering getting a divorce, but first you try to see a marriage counselor. The marriage counselor suggests that a love potion might save your marriage. Would you take a love potion to save a failing marriage? What if you were worried about the impact of divorce on your kids?

 

[AryaX]

No such thing as fake emotion...

1. Don't know... Is the oracle named Cassandra? would I believe them? I wouldn't want for the world to end, but I am a bit skeptical...
2. Hmm... not really... ?
3. Nothing much... ?
4. Possibly... ?

 

[CupcakeNinja]

No thanks I'd prolly just go buy her a hooker or something. Let her get some of that good dick

 

[Vaxel00]

Isn't it easier if I just give the potion to her and make her fall blindly in love with someone else?

I'm not getting married till the day I die and she's probably going to prove me right in 5 years. If she falls for me she can do that all she wants but I'm not budging.

 

[Capharas]

Even if you take the love potion, there is no garante, that you will be loved back or that your friend does not find your blind love disturbing. What if your friend turns out to be abusive or makes you miserable? Will you still have to love and stay with him/her no matter what?

Let's say the oracle isn't very trustworthy and the love potion is the only sure fire way of avoiding the destruction of the world, but both of you will have a miserable life in return.

If it was slipped into your food and you are happy, everything works out perfectly, then who cares? Or is that just the lie the potion feeds you? What if you are miserable and find out? You will probably start to hate the world and everything around you (kind of an interesting plot idea, like by avoiding doom you just made it happen).

I personaly feel like just building social bonds and making sure you are helping each other out and are having fun together would be the best way of rescuing the world. Maybe you even fall in love. Who knows?

Once again. It comes down to how the potion and the powers of the oracle work in detail and what kind of story you want to have.

 

[Milk.Milkan]

1. Would you drink a love potion to save the world? Why or why not?

2. Is there anything wrong with fake love produced by a potion? What if you felt happy in a relationship because of the potion?

3. Suppose that the oracle slipped the potion in your food without telling you. You fall in love with your friend, and live very happily ever after with them ...But afterwards you find out that it was all due to a love potion. How would you react upon discovering that your feelings were fake all along?

4. (Unrelated to this scenario) Suppose that you got married, but in recent years you have started fighting a lot with your spouse. The two of you are considering getting a divorce, but first you try to see a marriage counselor. The marriage counselor suggests that a love potion might save your marriage. Would you take a love potion to save a failing marriage? What if you were worried about the impact of divorce on your kids?

1. Most likely dont cuz I JUST DONT WANT.

2. Love is s strange topic dat may be considered fake in any iteration so some love potions doesnt really makes a difference. Feeling happy might be good though.

3. Lets remember da fact dat usually people under the love potion no really care about the fact of being under the love potion. They would care if the effect will wear off though.

4. Oh yeah, so many problems cuz of a fucking stamp in a passport. No.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Yeah, I'd drink that potion for my friend. I know which friend we're talking about here, actually He was a groomsman at my wedding when my husband's best friend told us the day before that he couldn't make it because of medical issues. I gave him some kissing lessons and a few other services once upon a time, and then he started getting clingy, and I had to put my foot down about the physical contact because I wasn't actually attracted to him, but we're still friends today.

As for the marriage thing . . .
Having already been in an emotionally abusive relationship from 2009-2014, it would really depend on what my husband was doing whether I would stay in the marriage or not. If his personality changed and he started getting abusive, it wouldn't be a good idea to subject my kids to that as well. I might drink that potion if he was still a good father. I wouldn't need the potion to hold the marriage together, though. Since I'm already in an open marriage, we can see other people when we want some novelty. As long as he's good to the kids, we could stay married for the sake of legal protections. Really, the only reason to get divorced would be if we crunched some numbers and found that there was a significant financial advantage to me being legally married to one of my other partners. Then, we'd all move into a bigger place with my new husband, I'd have kids with my new husband, both of my kids would have two daddies, and we'd all have more free time because we'd take turns watching the kids. Many hands make light work.

By the way, I just came home from an appointment, and they say my fetus is looking very healthy

 

[GDLiZy]

I'll be miserable, but at least I'll still be alive. Better than dying in 5 years at least.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

1) Flaws or not, if they're good enough to be my friend then their good enough to be my lover.
2) I personally have no problems with love generated or sustained through magical means, so long as informed consent is obtained. There needs to be even more love in every world.
3) I'd be a little mad at the oracle, but my feelings are not fake even if they were kindled in witchcraft.
4) I'd try it, but we already still love each other anyway. A lack of love is not why we're fighting. People can still love each other even when a relationship takes more effort than either or both are willing or able to give. Besides, fights between parents are more traumatizing for kids than divorce is.