Would you rather have gravity shut off for one day or have everyone go insane and want to kill you?

The Gravity of Sanity

Jun 21, 2012

have gravity shut off for 1 day

In the spirit of the hypothetical, a single day of weightlessness would be an extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The question is meant playfully — assume gravity stops pulling your body, not that orbital mechanics collapse entirely.
Surviving a day of people trying to kill you is traumatic and violent; floating through the air is simply magical.
The joy of flight and weightlessness, even for one day, is a fantasy worth any accompanying discomfort.

have everyone around you go insane and want to kill you

If gravity is literally shut off, Earth loses its atmosphere immediately and every living thing dies — not a fun day.
Surviving a day of human attackers is at least theoretically possible; there is no surviving the collapse of physics.
Human threats can be fled, outwitted, or outlasted — gravity's absence cannot be negotiated with or escaped.
Choosing to face killers preserves the possibility of survival; gravity-off guarantees everyone on Earth dies.

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