I realize this poll may seem silly, but I've been thinking about my grand-pa lately, one of the main reasons I am a Browns fan is because of him. He passed away back in 02' from Dimentia. A terrrrrible disease. So, that would mean I would take the cure illness other, or bring back a loved one. However, when it comes down to it, I would probably select end the war in Iraq or cure cancer, as that would make alot more people happy as opposed to just me and my family.

Question:
If you could have one of these things come true - Which would you choose, and why (obviously optional).

Choices:
Cheaper gas prices
End the War in Iraq
A loved one who has passed, back
Meet your favorite player (any sport)
Play professional sports (any sport)
Cure cancer
Cure any other illness (add below)
Other (add below)

 

I chose play a professional sport for a few reasons:

1. It would fulfill a dream that I, and probably most of the board members on here.

2. I would be able to take care of my friends and family

3. I could be a role model to the youth of America and help others out through charity work and things like that.


IT'S THE TRIFECTA!!!

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Originally posted by AtzingerB:
I chose play a professional sport for a few reasons:

1. It would fulfill a dream that I, and probably most of the board members on here.

2. I would be able to take care of my friends and family

3. I could be a role model to the youth of America and help others out through charity work and things like that.


IT'S THE TRIFECTA!!!

That is exactly the type of answer's I'm looking for, thank you Atzinger.

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Originally posted by AtzingerB:
I chose play a professional sport for a few reasons:

1. It would fulfill a dream that I, and probably most of the board members on here.

2. I would be able to take care of my friends and family

3. I could be a role model to the youth of America and help others out through charity work and things like that.


IT'S THE TRIFECTA!!!

plus, who the heck cares about gas prices when you're making $500,000 a year. Heck, I'd probably buy an SUV!

I chose "Cure any other illness" selfishly because my sister has Multiple Sclerosis. Curing Cancer would be a close second as my Mother is a cancer survivor(one of the lucky ones). The other choices would be nice. I'd love to bring back my father and watch another Browns game with him, and playing pro sports would be a kick. But for the general improvement of life for others I just couldn't turn down curing a major illness no matter how much I'd love to do those other things.

you gotta go with cure cancer, that would hands down help the most people worldwide and then we wouldn't have to spend billions of dollars treating it each year so we could use that money to further strengthen our country in other areas. I really think most of the people polled didn't really think it through, if they really had to opportunity I think most would change their decision to help the greater good. I really hope so...

getting a poor kid a jacket for winter is great, but it is no where near the miracle it would be to cure a 40 year old womans breast cancer and give a mother a chance to live her life out with her family.

Yeah I picked cure cancer because I know so many people who have died or are going to die from the disease. I would pick to cure any disease for that matter. How you could be so selfish to pick "play a professional sport" or "meet your favorite player" over curing a worldly pandemic is beyond me. I mean come on guys, really?

Because you can help people in other ways too. If you cure cancer or any other disease you are also leaving out just as many underprivalaged(sp?) people all over the world. Besides, would it be so wrong to do something that you enjoy AND still help people. No matter what you pick, you are still going to leave people out that you won't be able to help so you might as well pick something that you can enjoy doing and STILL help just as many people. That's why I picked play a pro sport because I could do something I enjoy, improve my and my family/friends lives, AND help thousands or millions of other people. Curing a disease is great, but they don't necessarily deserve to be helped any more or less than people who are poor, starving, or are underprivaleged in any other way.

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Originally posted by AtzingerB:
Because you can help people in other ways too. If you cure cancer or any other disease you are also leaving out just as many underprivalaged(sp?) people all over the world. Besides, would it be so wrong to do something that you enjoy AND still help people. No matter what you pick, you are still going to leave people out that you won't be able to help so you might as well pick something that you can enjoy doing and STILL help just as many people. That's why I picked play a pro sport because I could do something I enjoy, improve my and my family/friends lives, AND help thousands or millions of other people. Curing a disease is great, but they don't necessarily deserve to be helped any more or less than people who are poor, starving, or are underprivaleged in any other way.

well, it would be a very difficult choice if it were between cure cancer or end world poverty, but ending world poverty wasn't a choice. But you are right where whatever you choose people are being left out, but I think even the most giving sports athlete ever could not even come close to the good that would come from curing cancer or AIDS. Look at Braylon edwards, he is doing more than any athlete has done in Cleveland in a LONG time and his scholarships are really only directly helping 100 kids or something. It sets a great example and hopefully other people see him and try to be like him, but directly he is only assisting 100 students with 10,000 dollar scholarships or something. Not to take away from him or his efforts at all, but you can't think that that is equivalent of curing cancer. But in all honesty, I personally could be doing a lot more than I have, probably like most people, so who am I to talk...

Yeah, that's very true and the same can be said for me and probably most people on this board, in the US, and across the world. I don't think my choice is the equivalent of curing cancer and it'd be selfish for me to think so, but when it comes down to it - I need to do things that can help me and my family first before I help others. Maybe that's wrong for me to think or do but I will help myself and family before I help others. This poll isn't the best example for me to back up my thoughts because the way the ? was posed, I wouldn't have to work to accomplish any of the tasks and I could help more people by curing cancer or a disease but my response was based more on my personal beliefs that it's a persons responsibility to help themselves and their family before they need to worry about helping others. Maybe that and my response to this poll is selfish of me, but IMO, I need to worry about me and my family first because those are the people that will always have my best interest in mind.

I agree with you fury. I mean being a superstar athlete who has very much influence on young fans and people alike come nowhere near the magnitude of a cure for cancer. There are 10 million cancer cases diagnosed worldwide each YEAR. If there is not some sort of prevention measure taken the number will double to 20 million each year by the year 2020. I know, thats a lot of cancer. As an athlete I understand you can help people, but you cant give an extension on life to those who are burdened with a early death sentence. And there are so many. We all know people who have it or who have died from it. Its terrible. Thankfully there may be a cure on the rise. If you are not familiar with John Kanzius he is a cancer patient who has invented some sort of radio wave treatment to kill the cancer cells. It is a promising technology that has shown effective on lab animals. I only know this much about it because the guy is from my hometown. But anyway Atzinger I ask you. If you could hit the rewind button and run into some magical Genie, and he said "Atzinger you can either be a superstar athlete of the highest proportion in any sport you choose or you can go back to your normal life and create the cure for cancer and save 10 million lives a year (some of which are probably relatives and friends)" you would say......?

honestly, it'd be a tough decision and I think both would be great decisions.

Curing Cancer - Save millions of lives and get rid of a terrible disease that nobody would ever suffer from again. Great choice.

Athlete - I could fulfill a personal dream of mine and I could support me and my family and also be able to do charity work to help underprivileged people. You also can't devalue the role a role model can play in someones life and can really help some child turn their life around.


I don't see choosing to be a pro athlete as a worse choice than curing cancer or any disease. Honestly, I'd still probably choose to be a pro athlete.

I read your above post and I know what you mean. I know that family is first, and Im completely the same way. This question is much more complicated than you can express on this board and I'm not trying to dismiss your thought on this. It is a very complex thing to think about and dissect. I guess I just kind of feel like that cancer and a cure is way bigger than me or any human for that matter. And if I could cure it and save so many people then you are saving just as many families. For the most part my family is in good health and we do ok, and if I compare our lives with that of a cancer patient we are on vacation. I know, my grandfather has been through chemo twice, and my grandmother died of lung cancer. My wifes first cousin is 28 and has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is a sure death sentence, I'm talking maybe a year. My friend from childhood just died last month of malanoma(don't know how to spell it) The sun caused cancer. My first cousins aunt also died last month of brain cancer. So maybe for me it is a little different than you because cancer is so close to my life. If I could choose to have my life how it is now with a cure, or to not have the cure and be a millionaire superstar athlete(because I too dreamed of this when I was younger because I love sports and played them all growing up) I still gotta take my life now with the cure. I know, easier said than done! I'll tell you what, I'll sleep on it!!!!!!!!

I'm very sorry to hear about that and believe me I totally understand how you feel. Curing cancer would save many many MANY more lives, but then me and my family don't get anything in return (obviously outside of the gratification of doing such a great thing by curing a terrible disease). It's a pretty loaded question because you can go with any of the answers and have a very legit reason for doing so (except probably meeting your favorite player because only you would gain from that).

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Originally posted by Spiritbro77:
I chose "Cure any other illness" selfishly because my sister has Multiple Sclerosis. Curing Cancer would be a close second as my Mother is a cancer survivor(one of the lucky ones). The other choices would be nice. I'd love to bring back my father and watch another Browns game with him, and playing pro sports would be a kick. But for the general improvement of life for others I just couldn't turn down curing a major illness no matter how much I'd love to do those other things.

Even if the premise is selfish, the result would not be. Curing MS as a whole would affect a great amount of people. It would affect my family as well, as I have a cousin who has MS.


Right there with you about bringing your dad back, (my grand-pa) it was always magical watching Browns/Buckeyes games with him. He was a student of the game, and I just loved listening to him talk, he taught me alot.


That's why when I think of him, I try to remember the great times we had together, however more often than not I remember him post Dementia, and it breaks my heart. Calling me my cousins' name sometimes, and other times not even knowing who I am, when not 20 minutes earlier he was talking to me normally, and called me by name.

He was a good man, and me and my family miss him alot.

Im sorry but I have to resurrect this poll,

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I chose play a professional sport for a few reasons:

You have a choice between curing cancer or any other illness and you choose to play a professional sport??

are you serious, you would rather play a sport knowing that you could have saved millions of lives???

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I would be able to take care of my friends and family

What happens if one of them gets breast cancer or acute lymphoblastic leukemia? will you be able to take care of them then?

talk about being selfish

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Originally posted by daddyphatsaks26:
Yeah I picked cure cancer because I know so many people who have died or are going to die from the disease. I would pick to cure any disease for that matter. How you could be so selfish to pick "play a professional sport" or "meet your favorite player" over curing a worldly pandemic is beyond me. I mean come on guys, really?

Totally agree. I picked cure cancer as well.

Anyone who didn't pick cure cancer should be drug out and shot.

In Matthew 24:7 Jesus mentions Pestilence in the last days. Pestilence is another name for desease, Cancer is the biggest plauge on earth, I do alot of Funerals and 9 out of 10 are Cancer

Jest wunnerin'...

WHEN (not if'n) sombody does cure the individual various Cancers... what alternative diseases gonna step in to fill the vaccuum?

We all gonna die someday...

Cancer, as terrible as it is, may be a better alternative than whatever'll come to take it's place.

Back when I was a mere tyke, mostly all folks had to be worried 'bout was some Raptor Dinosaur gonna swaller them whole... now in mah seasoned second childhood, mostly folks gotta worry 'bout bein' consumed to death, slowly, one malignant cell at a time...

Daid is daid ...an' in mah book quicker is the better lot. Guess that's one the reasons I follow the Browns so closely... They's guaranteed to give me a massive,