Current Events > Scenario: You must choose between life in prison, or an off-planet exile.

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Whatever your reasons for doing it were, you have committed a crime serious enough where you have now been handed a life sentence in a maximum-security prison.

However, due to overcrowding, the judge offers you another option to serve out your sentence: You can instead choose to be teleported to an Earth-life planet on the opposite side of the Galaxy.

• This planet is near-identical to Earth--including a breathable atmosphere and drinkable water--and it is crawling with its own animal and plant life. However, no intelligent life exists there, there would be no other human on the planet nor access to any technology at all, and once you're there, you can never return to or communicate with Earth under any circumstances. The only things you will be able to bring with you are a medium-sized backpack, a water container, a pocket-knife, a blanket, and the clothes you are wearing. You'll be responsible with your own survival there for the rest of your life; otherwise, you're free to explore to your heart's content.
• On the other hand, the overcrowded and also-dangerous prison will nonetheless house and feed you, you will have access to some entertainment and recreation, and you will have human contact with the other inmates as well as your loved ones on the outside world. You will never get parole nor will your sentence ever be overturned or pardoned, so you will be contained within the prison walls with your freedoms and access greatly restricted for the rest of your life.

Given these options, which would you choose?

BumP

probably just prison.

also, try to get a compassionate, lonely pen pal to marry me, so I hopefully get conjugal visits, from time to time.

Exile

I hate this planet

100% the planet without hesitation.

planet. people suck.

It would be pretty cool exploring a planet devoid of humans, but just one backpack isn't enough for me so I'd probably die in like a week no matter what I brought.