wormy-business:

I saw this question posed on tiktok, but I think Tumblr would really enjoy it too.

If a fae creature offered to give one million dollars for a bone FROM YOUR BODY chosen at random, how many bones would you allow them to take?

Light clarifications; The fae is not the one choosing the bones. The bone is taken at random. Each bone, no matter the size or importance, is worth a full million dollars. You must also declare the exact number first, you can’t go bone-by-bone. You either say 2 or you say 10, you can’t work your way up to a higher number. The bones are removed instantaneously, and the money is given immediately as well. You will not get in government trouble for acquiring the money.

How many bones do you give?

NONE MY BONES ARE MINE!!!!

Only one.

2-5

6-10

11-30

31-60

61-99

100-125

126-150

151-175

176+

Just take ‘em all

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Tell me in the tags/replies how many bones you’d let the fae take. And as always, reblog for bigger sample size.

no. No no no.

I picked a random “1 bone” on that site and it gave me all the tarsals of my hand. All of them. My hand, that I draw and craft with. Apparently they count as 1 single bone. Don’t wanna know how it defines my skull.

The chance of the lost bone cancelling out the million dollars (in either medical costs or quality of life or both) is just too high to risk.

Maybe at some point in the past I might have been desperate enough, valued my survival low enough.

But now… the only way I can imagine rolling the dice/knucklebones on any of this, is if your focus was entirely on something OTHER than your own life and wellbeing.

And… if we start from that angle…

well, one could argue, from an ethical perspective…. (the same perspective where you don’t cause the deaths of multiple innocents to save your own life)…. that the RIGHT thing to do would be “sell all the bones, after making a will leaving all your money to the best charitable causes you can find.”

BUT, this would not work in practice.

Because a will is only carried out if the deceased is believed to have been “in sound mind” when writing it.

And someone whose last act was “sell all her bones to the fairies” probably does not qualify.