The reason why we have figures like Hitler and Stalin in our history books is so we can prevent these types of people from rising to power. So if I go down in history as a huge asshole, then everyone in the future will know how to not be a huge asshole and how to deal with people like me. XD

t1bZ

United States21 Posts

August 14 2011 06:24 GMT

#102

Depends on whether or not the "hated" option requires you to actually commit atrocities and such while alive.

Falling

Canada11607 Posts

August 14 2011 06:25 GMT

#103

On August 14 2011 15:00 TheCrimsonReaper wrote:
I would take hated. What is the point of living if you aren't going to leave a mark?

Ah, but what matters most? Making a mark or being remembered for making a mark. See one could be a great positive force for change and yet no-one knows about it. Or one could make a mark negative enough to be hated. (Under these very arbitrary conditions.) I would think the deed is greater than the memory of the deed.

The only way I could see choosing the legacy one is if you're going to pull a Batman- everyone's scapegoat, but you actually were objectively a force for positive change.

reneg

United States859 Posts

August 14 2011 06:28 GMT

#104

I feel like leading a life set my good morals and trying to be a good citizen is all i can ask for.

If i end up being forgotten to the sands of time after my grandchildren are dead, then i'll go the exact same way that almost every single one of our great-great-grandfathers have gone.

I mean think about it, just because you're forgotten, doesn't mean you weren't important. Can you trace your lineage all the way back to an original civilization? All those people from then to now lived, and died, and are completely forgotten.

No less important than you or i

enemy2010

Germany1972 Posts

August 14 2011 06:29 GMT

#105

I don't care what you write about me, as long as you spell my name correctly.

Hikari

1914 Posts

August 14 2011 06:35 GMT

#106

Hated. I want everyone in the world to direct their hatred towards me and not at each other.

eXeRicH

Germany89 Posts

August 14 2011 06:40 GMT

#107

I would prefer to be forgotten. Think about your family.
I can imagine, that relatives of deeply hated, dead people are having a hard time dealing with insults/maybe even physical attacks.
Being a hated person even after your death is nothing someone can be proud of imo.

JLew

Canada353 Posts

August 14 2011 06:57 GMT

#108

Well if some people absolute hate you, there had to be atleast a small group of people who love you or your cause or whatever you did just as much. (similar to Nazis and Hitler since we're going with that analogy a lot here ).

It's a tough call.

Stealth_Mel0n

Australia43 Posts

August 14 2011 07:09 GMT

#109

hated for me- definitely

The_LiNk

Canada863 Posts

August 14 2011 07:11 GMT

#110

My my, what a philosophical breakthrough. What's their inspiration? The Illiad and the story of Achilles? Substitute glory with hate?

Moa

United States790 Posts

August 14 2011 07:13 GMT

#111

At first I was thinking hated and then I remembered this episode. Now I'm not sure.

krbz

United States66 Posts

August 14 2011 07:22 GMT

#112

I wanna be hated..... for my wicked good looks.

Holy_AT

Austria978 Posts

August 14 2011 07:29 GMT

#113

I dont like this thread and it is not funny in the slightest.
It makes me think about people like Anders Breivik and other nutheads or mass murderers like Hitler, Stalin ... throught time and history.

For the sake and respect of their victims I would like this stupid senseless thread to be closed because it does not serve any real discussion or has a valid purpose.

RavenLoud

Canada1100 Posts

August 14 2011 07:31 GMT

#114

"To troll or not to troll, that is the question."

I'd rather be forgotten tbh.

frogrubdown

1266 Posts

August 14 2011 07:45 GMT

#115

On August 14 2011 16:11 The_LiNk wrote:
My my, what a philosophical breakthrough. What's their inspiration? The Illiad and the story of Achilles? Substitute glory with hate?

Sure you don't mean it the other way around? Achilles sacrificed his immortality to achieve glory.

Perhaps substitute glory for the good life? That analogy kind of works though it's still pretty abnormal given that Achilles achieved the figurative immortality talked about in this thread through his glorious actions.

Ronald_McD

Canada807 Posts

August 14 2011 07:47 GMT

#116

I'm assuming that the forgotten option applies to only after I die.

Forgotten is the obvious choice here. You could be the most disgusting, sick fuck in the world and have everybody forget about it. I don't even see how someone could choose the other option unless they just want to be hated or famous.

Stealth_Mel0n

Australia43 Posts

August 14 2011 07:53 GMT

#117

On August 14 2011 16:47 Ronald_McD wrote:

F. I don't even see how someone could choose the other option unless they just want to be hated or famous.

That's exactly it though. Fame can be achieved through hate. And they want their life to be carried on once they've died.

Iplaythings

Denmark9110 Posts

August 14 2011 08:00 GMT

#118

Forgotten.

If it was hated - that means I fucked up el grande and probally harmed people close to me. I simply cannot see myself do that..

I'd rather be forgotten than that.

Gummy

United States2180 Posts

August 14 2011 08:02 GMT

#119

I'd rather be forgotten. It is most similar to my current disposition.

XiGua

Sweden3085 Posts

August 14 2011 08:02 GMT

#120

Uh...

I have always thought my life goal was to leave a mark significant enough for people to remember it. But if it is for the cost of being hated...

If I get hated it surely must mean that I did something very wrong, I don't think that is what I want to leave as a mark. I would take that as failing my life goal, being forgotten is also a fail but not as harsh.