Poll: Can you attack yourself?
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I'm assuming this is on equal footing, no environmental objects giving me or other me an advantage? I'd assume it would all come down to who was able to throw the first punch. So I guess the internal debate comes down to "Would I become aggressive more quickly if I were mugging someone or if I were being mugged?"
Normally I would say that I'd be more aggressive if I were being mugged (especially if the mugger is unarmed,) but that's because when you're mugging someone you're hoping you can intimidate them, otherwise you would just attack them and take their money. The thing is, I know me, and I know I don't scare myself, so going into the mugging I would know that I would have to throw the first punch while other me is reeling from "what the fuck that's me." Therefor I think I would be able to beat the other me in a fight.
Normally I would say that I'd be more aggressive if I were being mugged (especially if the mugger is unarmed,) but that's because when you're mugging someone you're hoping you can intimidate them, otherwise you would just attack them and take their money. The thing is, I know me, and I know I don't scare myself, so going into the mugging I would know that I would have to throw the first punch while other me is reeling from "what the fuck that's me." Therefor I think I would be able to beat the other me in a fight.
I would never mug myself, for three reasons.
Firstly, petty crime makes me very angry, and as such I've gone over what I'd (like to) do in those situations countless times.
Secondly, because I have no money, and I'm quite strong. I'm a terrible target.
And thirdly, because I've often fantasized about clones of myself, so any alternate me would absolutely seize that chance.
I was going to suggest that if what the OP says happened did happen, for whatever reason, that I would attempt to explain the situation... baring in mind that the money is just going to myself, but again... no money. I'd have better luck asking or taking from elsewhom. Which is totally a word.
Firstly, petty crime makes me very angry, and as such I've gone over what I'd (like to) do in those situations countless times.
Secondly, because I have no money, and I'm quite strong. I'm a terrible target.
And thirdly, because I've often fantasized about clones of myself, so any alternate me would absolutely seize that chance.
I was going to suggest that if what the OP says happened did happen, for whatever reason, that I would attempt to explain the situation... baring in mind that the money is just going to myself, but again... no money. I'd have better luck asking or taking from elsewhom. Which is totally a word.
I would obviously give myself the money, since then when my present self arrives in that point in the future and goes back in the past he (therefore I) will take back the money stolen by future-me and as such no one would have actually lost any money. Boy time travel sure is amazing!
Well, I would know that I wouldn't have any money on me, so it'd be a bit of a waste of time anyway. As to whether I would be able to beat myself would come down to a lot of timing.
Attacking-me seems to have been trough some trouble already so I might be weaker than myself from before the event started. However two days from now me should be quite handily able to defeat current me, due to not actually being sick...
Attacking-me seems to have been trough some trouble already so I might be weaker than myself from before the event started. However two days from now me should be quite handily able to defeat current me, due to not actually being sick...
i could try to talk myself out of it. i am a relatively sensible person. And if not then i can black mail me. i have so much dirt on myself. you have no idea what kinds of sick things i dream of, i would never mess with a guy that has that much personal and discriminating information about my personal life (which is why i never mock politics anymore)
I wouldn't say anything about it to myself. Instead, I would have sex with myself in the alley. Knowing myself, I'd be completely into that. And assuming that myself doesn't know my intention, I could easily sneak the money away while I'm preoccupied. I get the money and we both have a lot of fun. Everyone wins. 
Yeah, no, screw that.
Given the information at hand, and compared to the probability that I somehow managed to find myself on a mission to mug the former me, the probability that some joker spiked my drink with LSD or some other hallucinogen seems to be quite high.
Given the information at hand, and compared to the probability that I somehow managed to find myself on a mission to mug the former me, the probability that some joker spiked my drink with LSD or some other hallucinogen seems to be quite high.
