Is it better to be a slave in heaven or free in hell?
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Vote yes if you think it'd be better to live in a happy society with little to no control of your life or vote no if you'd prefer to live in a more hellish world where you have full control of the choices in your life

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@Scp1500 do you know the answer yet?

bought Ṁ30 of YES

If we're talking about literal heaven and hell, then I'd happily give up freedom for a state of perpetual bliss.

How will this resolve? Is it self resolving?

predicts YES

@EvanDaniel i think this should be a poll but I think it's too late to change it. I'll give it a year and see what the world days then resolve it to the highest one

@Scp1500 Should it remain open until closer to then? Having it sit closed for a long time seems unproductive.

Also, this is why I think self-resolving markets do badly in general:
https://manifold.markets/old-posts/selfresolving-markets-why-they-dont

Maybe make a poll instead?

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,

Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat

That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom

For that celestial light? Be it so, since he

Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid

What shall be right: fardest from him is best

Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream

Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields

Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail

Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell

Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings

A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.

The mind is its own place, and in it self

Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

What matter where, if I be still the same,

And what I should be, all but less then he

Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least

We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built

Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:

Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,

Th' associates and copartners of our loss

Lye thus astonisht on th' oblivious Pool,

And call them not to share with us their part

In this unhappy Mansion, or once more

With rallied Arms to try what may be yet

Regaind in Heav'n, or what more lost in Hell?