If someone paid you to read Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species, would you do it?

Question

Absurd question, don't you think.

Answer 1

I want to read it anyway. If someone paid me to do it, that'd just be a fabulous bonus!

Answer 2

If this has to do with those questions asking if we were paid would we read the Koran etc., then yes that is absurd. If you have to be paid to be willing to learn about other religions or ideas...then that is sad.

Answer 3

Paid me to read it no.. I would read it because it is a book important to our history as a human species and that in itself is enough. Money isn't everything.

Answer 4

I've already read it but if someone would pay me, I'll read it again. Sounds good to me. Absurdity makes the time go by faster.

Answer 5

Not if it has anything to do with that question about the million bucks. Send me the book and I'll turn my reading lamp on all night.

Answer 6

Yes even for no pay, he was genius, only people who are afraid of the truth do not want to read it, since it might destroy their fantasies that when they die they go to heaven to live hap ply ever after instead of just been a insignificant nothing in the universe

Answer 7

I read excerpts from it at university. It's a boring book notwithstanding the fact that the scientific method he employs and his theory are sound and his conclusions about "most" of his studies are correct and borne out by modern scientific findings.

Answer 8

I do think it is absurd. People should read books to expand their own knowledge, to educate themselves, not for money. That is ridiculous

Answer 9

I read it without being paid. Absurd question, yes, but as I answered the other questions posed, this one also deserved an answer.

Answer 10

That I'd pay for. I paid to read Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotion and it was well worth it.