Friday 5 for November 7: What would it take?

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. Under what circumstances might you deliberately fail at a task you were perfectly capable of completing?
2. Under what circumstances might you choose to completely cut off contact with a family member you currently love and respect?
3. Under what circumstances might you willingly give up every piece of modern technology you own and move to an off-grid location?
4. Under what circumstances might you leave your job to take work paying half as much?
5. Under what circumstances might you agree to live the rest of your life without ever using spoken language again?

Thanks for participating, and have a morally unambiguous weekend!