Yeah, and when you break it, you die. Just kidding you live and the only consequence you pay most of the time is most likely social pain.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The pinky swear started as a way to hold you to your word; if you didn't do what you said you would, you had to lose that finger.. So sometimes, you break a pinky swear and you suffer actual physical pain.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But pain isn't death. It's still not the same thing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Unless infection sets in and you've got a weak immune system. Then there's a good chance they're the same.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But it's still not technically the same. You break the promise, you get your finger cut off =/= You break the promise, you die from it. It's an indirect cause that could have been prevented but isn't guaranteed in the promise.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How can you be so sure..? Cut a finger off and let me know how it goes for you so that I can agree with you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because you can prevent yourself from dying from getting your finger cut off. My mother had part of her finger chopped off. No infection, and she survived. It's clearly possible to survive it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because you have doctors readily available to you. Same situation but now you're confined to the jungle. Go!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But it's not the same because the unbreakable vow isn't curable if you break it. You die. No questions asked. Cutting your pinky off is curable, though. And that's just fact.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Curable sometimes. I like how you take jokes/hypotheticals/Harry Potter seriously.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This post makes no sense. They aren't relative so I voted it down and I'm defending my position. It's not bad to take things seriously sometimes. Even if it is pointless. If you didn't want to debate about it, don't strike up an argument. Jesus.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not really seeing a debate though. Or need for defense. I started with pinky removal and you said it wasn't the same as death (duh) but I never said it was. SO. You have me trolling because you've got your panties in a bunch over someone making a joke. Now you need everything in connection with a fictional story to be logical. Which is illogical all on its own, but I won't go into that. The problem for me here is that you are potentially saying that because death by unclean conditions can't cause death because you witnessed a similar situation in which clean conditions resulted in a favorable outcome. No bueno. If your argument can logically include magic, mine can logically include extraordinary circumstances.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And now you're taking it seriously. Hypocrite. I didn't find this "joke" funny anyhow if that's the case. Either way, serious or joking, I voted it down both ways.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not taking it seriously, I'm trying to explain it to you since you're apparently absent from the conversation

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You don't have to explain it to me. Nobody said I wanted it to be explained. You're viewing this more lightly than I am, I'm viewing it more harshly. Just leave me be. Not everyone has to think like you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Have fun pretending everything is serious?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bwxhts5YZQ

by Anonymous 12 years ago