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Human nature question...
2004-02-09, 9:57 AM #1
Let's say you have a close friend. But the friend has to be gone for 3 years off to some place (like Cuba or something.) Anyway, because you are his closest friend, he gives you this heavy suitcase to hold on to until he comes back. BUT he tells you NOT to look at the contents inside the suitcase. He says its "personal" and "top-secret."

As a honest poster, would you eventually look into the suitcase, due to curiosity, even though there is a possiblity your friend would know you did? How about if he would never know?

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2004-02-09, 9:58 AM #2
I might eventually. And that's being honest. But I also might just tuck it away somewhere, and forget I had it.

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2004-02-09, 10:12 AM #3
Definately not. My honesty is something I greatly value.

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2004-02-09, 10:17 AM #4
I wouldn't. I'd throw it in the closet and forget about it.

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2004-02-09, 10:18 AM #5
Hmm.. well, for me, it'd entirely depend on *his* nature, as I'd determine from it what I might guess to be the contents. Like, if he had any major weakness of personality that I knew of, I would end up determining if the suitcase had anything potentially hazardous (as in, not necessarily physically harmful, but unlawful and harmful to one's reputation). But if I thought it simply contained something he saw as an embarrassment, and was harmless.. then, nah, I could control myself. More accurately, I couldn't care less.

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2004-02-09, 10:20 AM #6
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Echoman:
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The second he stepped out the door. It might be money. If it was, Id shoot him in the back as he walked away. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-02-09, 10:20 AM #7
Reminds me of that part in The Godfather

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2004-02-09, 10:21 AM #8
I'd tell the guy that I needed to know the contents of the container before he gave it to me for safekeeping. If someone is: 1.) Leaving the country for an extended period of time, and 2.) Needs to leave a conspicuous object with you for that time, something's amiss.
2004-02-09, 10:29 AM #9
I'd probally lose it, then give him another suitcase when he got back

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2004-02-09, 10:41 AM #10
Jon brings up a good point.

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2004-02-09, 10:49 AM #11
I agree with Jon. Plus, if the guy trusts you enough to keep the thing for him, he should trust you enough to tell you without your having to look. That would also get your curiosity out of the way before it ever gets a chance to make you do something you would regret.

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2004-02-09, 1:06 PM #12
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I wouldn't. I'd throw it in the closet and forget about it.

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2004-02-09, 1:10 PM #13
If it's a good friend of mine, I'll hold it and not look. Doesn't matter what's in it (of course, none of my FRIENDS would ask me to hold something that would pose a danger).
2004-02-09, 1:19 PM #14
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jon`C:
I'd tell the guy that I needed to know the contents of the container before he gave it to me for safekeeping. If someone is: 1.) Leaving the country for an extended period of time, and 2.) Needs to leave a conspicuous object with you for that time, something's amiss.</font>


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2004-02-09, 1:23 PM #15
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
The second he stepped out the door. It might be money. If it was, Id shoot him in the back as he walked away. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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So I'm nopt the only self-serving ******* in the world... how reassuring.

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2004-02-09, 1:28 PM #16
I agree with Jon

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2004-02-09, 2:29 PM #17
The question depends on how close the friend is... If they're merely a friend, most people would open the suitcase eventually.

Personally, I would ask as to why my friend would need to leave something like that to me, and if the answer was satisfactory (which could be difficult in such suspicious conditions), I would store it away someplace very safe... Probably locked away, so that nobody would be looking inside of it.

Of course, a plausable reason for leaving a heavy suitcase might be because it contains personal journals (this might be what was originally implied).

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2004-02-09, 4:02 PM #18
I bet if you open the suitcase a big springy snake will jump out and scare the crap out of you.

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2004-02-09, 4:17 PM #19
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by erik314:
I bet if you open the suitcase a big springy snake will jump out and scare the crap out of you.

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THAT was funny

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2004-02-09, 4:18 PM #20
if he was going to Cuba i would be worried about him in the first place. and defanitally if the suitcase began to stink with in a week i would definatlly open it. but other than that, no i would put it in my attic and leave it there.

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2004-02-09, 4:22 PM #21
Cuba can first in my mind, I could have chose another country..but meh...

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2004-02-09, 4:45 PM #22
I think that I'd think to myself, "I'm not going to open it." And then I'd realize, if he's gone for years, the curiousity would eat me alive. So I'd take a peak. If it's something personal, like journals, I wouldn't read them. I wouldn't take anything in it (money, jewelery, ect), but I don't think I could live with the curiousity.

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2004-02-09, 4:50 PM #23
I'd open it up and hope it was drugs. If it was drugs, I'd sell them. I suspect if he was going to Cuba, he was a pinko commie f** anyway and didn't have a need for material possessions.
2004-02-09, 4:51 PM #24
No, I wouldn't open it.

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2004-02-09, 6:13 PM #25
I'd ask him a lot of questions about it. I might do some shaking, might weigh it, I might open it very slightly so that nothing can get out.

There's a lot of things I might do, but either way I'll have a damned good idea what's in the case by the time he gets back, regardless of whether or not I technically "open" it.
2004-02-09, 6:54 PM #26
I'd open it... if it was so important he had to give it to me for 3 years I damn well better know whats in it before the cops or some **** comes in and busts my *** ... I don't give a damn if this dude is your "friend" or whatever cuz you never know... he might have a side to em that you don't know about.

Speaking of friends, how much of a friend do you think you are to your best friend? If someone offered you a billion dollars in the case that you had to never talk to your friend again, would you accept it?

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2004-02-09, 7:00 PM #27
Em Playa, It depends which of my friends it was. Some yes, others no.

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2004-02-09, 7:03 PM #28
...I wouldn't trust my friends if they handed me a paper bag, let alone a suitcase.
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2004-02-09, 7:04 PM #29
If you were the "friend" in that scenario, would you as a TRUE friend tell them to accept the cash?

I would accept the money... I mean, what's to tell you that the friend won't die a year later? Or stabs you in the back over a girl or somethin? A billion bucks would have you and many generations of your kids be set for life.

Not to mention that you could help many people by giving some of that cash to charities.

Would that friend be worth giving ALL that up?

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2004-02-09, 7:49 PM #30
You could always accidentally drop it down elevator shafts and stairwells until it burst open of its own accord.. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gif]

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2004-02-09, 7:55 PM #31
What's the point? If you're that desperate in opening it - just open it... better than blatantly lying to your friend that it somehow fell down the stairs 20 times.

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2004-02-09, 8:19 PM #32
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2004-02-09, 8:20 PM #33
If it was someone I was just 'friends' with, or didnt know all that well, I'd tell them I had to know what was in the suitcase first. But for a good/best friend, sure I'd hang on to it without ever looking inside.

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2004-02-09, 8:47 PM #34
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If it was someone I was just 'friends' with, or didnt know all that well, I'd tell them I had to know what was in the suitcase first. But for a good/best friend, sure I'd hang on to it without ever looking inside.

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Though, I'd probably charge them rent...



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2004-02-10, 1:27 AM #35
First off, I only have one friend, And if he told me to keep a breifcase for him and not look in it I would do it.
If I was in a shakey relationship with someone (And by this I do not mean a sexual relationship or anything like that) I would probably have a look, if it was something I liked......I would shoot him/her for it.


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2004-02-10, 7:51 AM #36
I wouldn't open it, but I would get it X-rayed. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]



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2004-02-10, 10:36 AM #37
Oooh, trixy.

What if it was a lead suitcase though?

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2004-02-10, 10:46 AM #38
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Oooh, trixy.

What if it was a lead suitcase though?

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Then you can assume there's plutonium in it

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2004-02-10, 10:55 AM #39
Or maybe he just didn't want Superman to see inside.

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