View Poll Results: Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

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    Kyriakos's Avatar Praeses
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    Default Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

    Given that i am sort-of working on some story currently, on a similar theme, i thought it might be not that pointless to ask this here as well...

    The poll question is the one in the title, so:

    Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

    The options given are:

    1) Labyrinth
    2) Experiment
    3) They are equally bad

    What follows is an elaboration of the options, which while not needed so as to vote and be close to the spirit of the thread, it might help generate some discussion of sorts..

    The main idea is that if the human world (ie Earth, basically, and some nearby frontiers, along with visible - but not visited by humans - things on the horizons) is either a maze for humans to be contained within, or an experiment by some observing entities, which of the two would be better for humans to live with? Provided, of course, that in most cases the end effect on the actual humans would be the same. For example the entities would not tend to just cut a human up for fun, like in a labyrinth the human would not be cut up by some strange force, unless it was one attributed to known physics.

    So it is a gloomy theme, but you may take part in the thread if you want to. Otherwise you may be visited by one of the observing entities. Or never be visited by them. Whichever of the two would be worse for you (which pretty much is part of the poll anyway )..
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    "While the lion prevails with its claws, and the ox through its horns, man does by his thinking"
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    Default Re: Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

    Is living in a hive city bad? I don't know.
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    Default Re: Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

    Neither. Earth is clearly a reality TV show where they took species from different planets and mixed them all together.

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    Default Re: Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

    The labyrinth itself is also an experiment, though I have a hard time to understand how we are currently locked in a labyrinth.
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    Default Re: Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

    Eats, shoots, and leaves.

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    Default Re: Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

    Does the labyrinth come with an exit which one (however difficult) can find and leave through?
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    Default Re: Which would be worse for humans? Locked in a Labyrinth or an Experiment?

    Yes. Destroy the Alien Overlords and Build Starships to conquer the Galaxy. Have you never read a Sci-Fi novel?

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