Which one would you want to be??

TonyMontana · Post #1 » by **TonyMontana** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:10 am

If you had a choice which one would you want to be?
A famous athlete or someone who cured a disease.
By the way the most amount of money you could make is lets say 50 million.

vinnycorleone · Post #2 » by **vinnycorleone** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:19 am

easy...the athlete.

i want to love my job. being a baller in the nba would be a dream.

Post #3 » by **LLcoleJ** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:23 am

assuming the "disease" is a major one, then it would be an easy pick for me. Help save thousands.. millions of peoples lives... or play a game.

Disease curer for the win.

DEEP3CL · Post #4 » by **DEEP3CL** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:14 am

This thread is going to be a classic Tony !

Man humanity or guilty pleasure..............hummmmmmm ?

Count me in with Phil .

Post #5 » by **dockingsched** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:19 am

famous athlete? heck, that could mean pacman jones or sasha vujacic

i'll take the life giver.

vinnycorleone · Post #6 » by **vinnycorleone** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:24 am

you guys are weak.

i live, dream, think, basketball.

Post #7 » by **LLcoleJ** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:04 am

vinnycorleone wrote:you guys are weak.

i live, dream, think, basketball.

do you have kids?...family? loved ones?

doozyj · Post #8 » by **doozyj** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:46 am

I'm going to be special, and be an NBA star that cures Cancer, doing my research on road trips in the plane. LOL.

vinnycorleone · Post #9 » by **vinnycorleone** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:05 am

Phil_2.0 wrote:
vinnycorleone wrote:you guys are weak.

i live, dream, think, basketball.

do you have kids?...family? loved ones?

well not kids...but the rest yes.

i'm just tryna have some fun in here man haha. we're all for world peace and living healthy lives but c'mon man...let the scientists work on the cures. let the ballers play ball.

if you were to get me a job position right now between doctor/researched vs nba player...i'll take NBA player.

hermes · Post #10 » by **hermes** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:27 pm

famous athlete

curing one disease will just open the door for others, i'll take playing a game for a living

magic1fan · Post #11 » by **magic1fan** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:41 pm

curing the disease

TonyMontana · Post #12 » by **TonyMontana** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:45 pm

So if you had the choice of saving people lives you would rather become a famous athlete instead.
Nothing wrong with that.
I mean think about it, If God gave people certain gifts and talents, to use that gift if you had the ability to save lives and to change lives and you chose to be a famous athlete instead then you basically care more about yourself than you would for others, and please dont take this the wrong way.

As a human being your legacy would be forever knowing that you had the ability to save peoples lives and you were the reason behind it, I think would be a greater accomplishment that would never be forgotten and always remembered for ever.

I dont know guys I would rather be the one who saved peoples lives than the guy who was good at playing a sport.

iamworthy · Post #13 » by **iamworthy** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:56 pm

Yeah this one is pretty easy, save lives.

Post #14 » by **Danny Darko** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:55 pm

If you cured cancer you childrens children would be thanked and admired. That's prestige at it's finest. funner definitely would be the athlete, but I'll take generations of prestige.

fareweatherfan · Post #15 » by **fareweatherfan** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:13 pm

Disease for the win. BUT - you guys are overlooking a related advantage to being a pro athlete.

Two words -- Dikembe Mutombo. Chew on it.

TonyMontana · Post #16 » by **TonyMontana** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:41 pm

fareweatherfan wrote:Disease for the win. BUT - you guys are overlooking a related advantage to being a pro athlete.

Two words -- Dikembe Mutombo. Chew on it.

Sure I give props to D.M but I said you have 50 million athlete or not. So money is limited thats if your donating your money.
If you think about it, D.M can only touch a certain amount of people, his people, yet when you can cure a disease, like Danny said "If you cured cancer you childrens children would be thanked and admired".
Were not talking about a certain group of selected people, were are talking about humanity. EVERYONE who has this disease.

fareweatherfan · Post #17 » by **fareweatherfan** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:46 pm

^Yup, which is why I chose disease curer.

Just wanted to throw DM out there b/c everyone seemed to focus solely on the fact that being a highly paid pro athlete was about playing ball. We don't see very many of them doing great things beyond the game, but the potential is there.

vinnycorleone · Post #18 » by **vinnycorleone** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:01 pm

the question was A disease.

so herpes is a disease...how many people would i really be saving? and should they be saved if they are that dumb enough to get it?

give me my 50 mil for playin ball and i'll donate 5-10 mil to the refugee camps in rewanda or darfur

SALMIEN · Post #19 » by **SALMIEN** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:33 pm

none of the above, iwana be a successful archetecht.

hermes · Post #20 » by **hermes** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:18 pm

Danny Darko wrote:If you cured cancer you childrens children would be thanked and admired. That's prestige at it's finest. funner definitely would be the athlete, but I'll take generations of prestige.

you really think people are going to remember? if your goal is to be remembered you should go with the athlete, to illustrate let me tell you a tale

:reporter:

the year was 1928, there were two men both doing extremely different things. one would be credited with the discovery of one of the most important drugs in history, the other was one of the best players in the history of his sport

the men: Babe Ruth and Alexander Fleming, which one do the kids today remember?