While tempting to say yes, explore the meaningfulness of being happy without ever being sad.
1) I think I am happiest when I have recently been sad. Why do you think this is?
2) What would a famous person say to this question?
3) How permanent would your decision be?
While tempting to say yes, explore the meaningfulness of being happy without ever being sad.
1) I think I am happiest when I have recently been sad. Why do you think this is?
2) What would a famous person say to this question?
3) How permanent would your decision be?
Encourage probabilities to be used here. Probably you could work out how much past there has been , or look this up, and be reasonably sure of the answer. But the future is more open ended and have more uncertainty attached to it. How do these two things balance out? As a bonus - explore not just the lengths of times, but also the number of people / progress of civilisation etc as a different measure of size.
1) I think humans have been around for 200,000 years. What does that tell us about our past?
2) How long into the future will we exist?
3) How certain are you about each of your answers?
Encourage probabilities to be used here. Probably you could work out how much past there has been , or look this up, and be reasonably sure of the answer. But the future is more open ended and have more uncertainty attached to it. How do these two things balance out? As a bonus - explore not just the lengths of times, but also the number of people / progress of civilisation etc as a different measure of size.
1) I think humans have been around for 200,000 years. What does that tell us about our past?
2) How long into the future will we exist?
3) How certain are you about each of your answers?
Explore the definition of a millionaire and why it is coveted for some people. If stealing is not an appealing route, explore whether it would be OK to achieve from a morally questionable profession eg CEO of a PayDay Loan company.
1) I think a millionaire has £1m sitting in the bank. Do you agree?
2) Why does it matter how you got the £1m?
3) Would being a millionaire make you happy?
Explore the definition of a millionaire and why it is coveted for some people. If stealing is not an appealing route, explore whether it would be OK to achieve from a morally questionable profession eg CEO of a PayDay Loan company.
1) I think a millionaire has £1m sitting in the bank. Do you agree?
2) Why does it matter how you got the £1m?
3) Would being a millionaire make you happy?
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