Philosophical Writing Prompts

As a part of your dying will, you get to choose a single person to inherit the exprience and skill you gained at single thing. They will gain it immidately after you die, even against their will.

You are Karma, when someone does good, they get a reward, do bad? punishment. With the current ability of people to do horrible things and hide behind anonymity doing little to stop you from your job, you'd think they would think twice.

Your friend complains about never being able to find love. "Have you met everybody in the world?" Your friend has met everybody in the world.

The last man on earth is the reason why he's the last man on earth.

A woman gains the ability to detect and change the penis size of any man around her. While initially try to be a robin hood like figure, growing good guys and shrinking jerks, she slowly become a size queen as she begins growing the cock's of every man she meets.

Your grandmother is a psychotic Empress and a bloody conqueror who kills for fun, but she also bakes you cookies and sings you bedtime stories, so she's not all bad, right?

You are a galactic journalist attending the trial of an entire species accused of unprecedented selfishness. As the charges are listed, you expect the worst. But as you listen, you start to realize that their "crimes" sound more like acts of extraordinary kindness

As the last living descendant of the world’s greatest wizard/witch, you have inherited their grimoire. The only issue, you HATE all things magical and have dedicated your life to science.

"We are superior to them, but they are our masters?"

You live in a world where if you can explain why something should work, the universe will let it work.

In an alternate reality, humans live significantly longer than 100 years. But their bodies keep ageing in unpredictable ways, and their minds evolve too. But what's after late adulthood? And what's after that? Behaviors of humans who have lived for longer become increasingly irrational.

You grew up in a village that despised all creatures except their own kind. However, a Fae saved you, and deeply moved by this, you vowed to help everyone, regardless of what they are.

And just like that: One day, they stopped coming... The last two I killed looked like children as well. Even from a different species, that much was obvious. But now, why do I feel so bad? Like, I did what I had to, right? There was no other feasible option…

The year is 3050. You work as an operator for a massive trash compactor with only one order, “Start the machine every hour or you’re fired”. You have 1 minute till your next compression when all of the sudden a person falls in.

You may have seen my previous experiment where we put a single, ordinary person in a room to see how long it takes him to push the electric shock button out of boredom. Now, we are putting two random, ordinary people in a room to see how long it takes them to fuck.

The reason god created humanity, and gave us free will, is to do the one thing god cannot do. And whatever you think that is, you are wrong.

For ages, there has been a divide between the "evolved" species and the "designed" species. New evidence has been unearthed that humanity are an artificial race, designed for companionship. Yet no one in the galactic community have ever seen humanity's "creators", and of them there are no sign.

An accidental rebounded curse has made it so that every time you perform evil deeds, the end results somehow end up beneficial to all involved. Frustrated at your predicament, you decide to try doing some good deeds for once, just to see the difference.

Your persuasion magic allows you to get whatever you desire. Including the tavern owner's very attractive daughter.

"You know, people say the first time is the hardest. Well, they're wrong. The second time is the hardest as the first is cushioned by ignorance. to do it again is to do knowing what it feels like."

A knock on your door reveals a person who you absolutely despise. They appear terrified of you, and ask you to sign a paper saying you have forgiven them.

The Hero keeps accepting all the various faustian bargains without even considering the downsides for a heartbeat.

Hope can be more cruel than despair. It makes a person desperate, preventing them from making peace with their end and robbing them of a calm and organized end to life.

In the great labyrinth, you have one guess remaining for the sphinx's riddle, but you have all the time in the universe.

A repair bot on an unmanned deep space research probe is activated to fix the ancient, ailing craft once again. In the vast reaches of space and time, the bot has gained sentience, and as it ponders its lonely life, it yearns to reach out to its creators.

Reincarnation is real, but you can reincarnate through time. You can reincarnate in the past or in the distant future.

You have died, but instead of oblivion or the afterlife you expected, you wake in a classroom. "Welcome back to Mortal Ethics 101, godlings," the professor says cheerily. "Your reflections are due in two weeks."

You choose to live an average life, despite having incredible superpowers. People often don’t understand, and even get angry at you for not doing more.

The chosen one is task in defeating a dark lord but comes to discover not only is the dark lord a benevolent ruler but manages to forge a friendship with her. Their own sense of morality is put to the test when their friendship with the dark lord turns into something more.

The universe is so, so big. But it cares. It cares so much about us. Us, we tiny, less than insignificant things. I can't help but feel horrified by that thought.