Thread: What would you do as the last person in the world?

^^ I think you may have missed the point of the OP, Snoop. The question was more a thought experiment about what you would do if given the opportunity of being perfectly alone in the world than it was a practical question about how you would survive in a world without people.

I can see how you may have been confused or misled, given that the impossibility of being alone or long-term survival seems all a couple people want to talk about. But this thread probably would have gone much better if the OP included a note saying something like "This is not a question about survival, but possibilities," I suppose.

[EDIT: I just noticed that you've already posted here, and are aware of the spirit of the OP. I guess I hadn't realized the subject had been changed; never mind!]

Wow Sageous, reading all those interesting posts, I forgot that was the goal of the thought experiment.

If I had no social constraints, what I would do differently is that I would be a nomad on a never-ending adventure. Living in a society stops me from always moving on because I am committed to the people I love. If I did not have these people I love to anchor me in one place, I would walk and never stop, exploring every corner of this Earth. But obviously, the reason I don't do this is because I do put more value in committing to those I love, so I'm not complaining here

Originally Posted by Sageous

^^ I think you may have missed the point of the OP, Snoop. The question was more a thought experiment about what you would do if given the opportunity of being perfectly alone in the world than it was a practical question about how you would survive in a world without people.

I can see how you may have been confused or misled, given that the impossibility of being alone or long-term survival seems all a couple people want to talk about. But this thread probably would have gone much better if the OP included a note saying something like "This is not a question about survival, but possibilities," I suppose.

[EDIT: I just noticed that you've already posted here, and are aware of the spirit of the OP. I guess I hadn't realized the subject had been changed; never mind!]

…Well, I guess the wording of my opening post does put the most emphasis on how you´d use your newly gained freedom, but it doesn´t have to be restricted to that. I do agree that the posts about your new life goals will probably be more interesting since each of them will be more individual than say survival strategies.

But “What would you do as the last person in the world?” can be read in many different ways. I wouldn´t say that posts defy the “spirit of the OP” since it wasn´t set in stone in the first place.

Being the last person left could be either heaven or hell depending on your perspective. It would be bitter sweet. Everyone is invited to think for themselves which of the two tastes would out weight the other.

If you focus on the sweetness, you could talk about how you’d rearrange your lifestyle now that you can live outside of society’s restrictions and push the worries of survival aside.

If you focus on the bitter side, feel free to ponder (and post) how you´d approach the challenge of living alone after losing access to all the possibilities which our human society used to provide. The danger of running out of food and other resources as well as the danger of becoming insane under the pressure of isolation are some very valid discussion points in that context.


As long as both discussions can peacefully coexist I don´t see a problem.

Originally Posted by Sageous

^^ I think you may have missed the point of the OP, Snoop. The question was more a thought experiment about what you would do if given the opportunity of being perfectly alone in the world than it was a practical question about how you would survive in a world without people.

I can see how you may have been confused or misled, given that the impossibility of being alone or long-term survival seems all a couple people want to talk about. But this thread probably would have gone much better if the OP included a note saying something like "This is not a question about survival, but possibilities," I suppose.

[EDIT: I just noticed that you've already posted here, and are aware of the spirit of the OP. I guess I hadn't realized the subject had been changed; never mind!]

The first part of my post was my attempt at following the spirit of the thread, the second part was a rebuttal to sivason's argument. No worries man, thanks for pointing it out because I'm pretty dense at times and as was already mentioned it flew over my head at first.