The fountain of talent.

[Rammjet]

On a deathly quest, over rolling seas, tumeltuous mountain scree, under burning sun and lashing storms, you reach your destination, a rocky isle at the ends of the earth which is only a weathered outcrop of basalt and seaweed.
The last leg of your journey was completed on a raft, constructed from driftwood and briney ropes. It is from this humble craft that you dismount onto the craggy shore in search of your prize.

Every step now leaves your body haggard, but there's a fire of excitement in your stomach as the goal comes into site, a shining fantastic fountain of gold, the source of talent. Jumbled foreign language is enscribed around its ornate marble base, an old tongue that hasn't been spoken for millenia, but which has been written and studied by all men and women of academia. The message is clear:

You have the choice between giving everyone else wonderful talents or giving yourself a wonderful talent, to either lift one of the great rocks from the shore and split the fountain's marble base or to cup your hands together and drink.

Which is it?

[Kira is Justice]

Well, I wouldn't want to be selfish and make myself think I'm superior to everyone. Moreover, I wouldn't want to give everyone in the world a talent, because quarrels would ensue on who has a better talent than whom, especially since humans naturally have a strong competitive spirit. In the end, I'd leave it alone.

[Yeti]

Id taint it with gasoline after i drank it.

[Janoo2000]

I would give myself a wonderful talent.

[ymm0t22]

If I gave everyone talent I'd destroy the meaning of talent. Nobody would be special, artisans and many workers would go out of business because anyone could perform their tasks, and the whole mentality of competition and capitalism would be destroyed. There would be no motivation to learn, no motivation to strive to become something, because everyone could already do everything to an amazing extent. It'd be like in The Incredibles, where the villian seeked to grant everyone superpowers and void the concept of superheroes.

I'd definitely drink it myself. If other people wanted to earn it, they could have made the journey that I hypothetically made.

[Rammjet]

If I gave everyone talent I'd destroy the meaning of talent. Nobody would be special, artisans and many workers would go out of business because anyone could perform their tasks, and the whole mentality of competition and capitalism would be destroyed. There would be no motivation to learn, no motivation to strive to become something, because everyone could already do everything to an amazing extent. It'd be like in The Incredibles, where the villian seeked to grant everyone superpowers and void the concept of superheroes.

I'd definitely drink it myself. If other people wanted to earn it, they could have made the journey that I hypothetically made.

On a more optimistic note they may all just exercise their wonderful talents to create a utopia.

[Lightnin!!!]

I'd just walk away.

Everyone can do great things, why give someone a gift they already have?

[ymm0t22]

On a more optimistic note they may all just exercise their wonderful talents to create a utopia.

Do you really think that would realistically happen?

[Janoo2000]

Do you really think that would realistically happen?

It could.

Possibly..

Hopefully

[Kursed]

i would simply walk away.

[Rammjet]

Do you really think that would realistically happen?

I don't think 'the whole mentality of capitalism' would be destroyed, nor a utopia built.

I think there would be several conspiracy theories dissonance and revolution and then a gradual return to stability.

[Overbeing]

if everybody else had wonderful talents, then they would be ordinary, and they wouldn't be talented at all, so ill take the selfish choice and drink for myself.

[Lightnin!!!]

if everybody else had wonderful talents, then they would be ordinary, and they wouldn't be talented at all, so ill take the selfish choice and drink for myself.

What if its just a really shit random talent.. Like.. Farting out of your eyes.

[Janoo2000]

What if its just a really shit random talent.. Like.. Farting out of your eyes.

OP says Wonderful talent, not shit random talent.

[Rammjet]

What if its just a really shit random talent.. Like.. Farting out of your eyes.

That's a freakshow, not a talent.

[Nickzta]

I would destroy the fountain because if it got in the wrong hands the world is doomed

[Overbeing]

do you get to choose your talent? if you do, i would like the talent of anticipation

[Janoo2000]

I would like the talent of having all talents.

[Overbeing]

I would like the talent of having all talents.

i anticipated that, so i moved the fountain and replaced it with a fake one full of raw sewage

[34attack]

Drink it in, pal. That's how failure tastes.