Yes (say how many times in your post) |
 |
41.5% (165) |
No |
|
58.5% (233) |
| (Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) | |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 547 Joined: 8 Jul 2008     | |
Muckraker  Posts: 301 Joined: 21 Apr 2009     | Come to think of it, I think I would. Because I'm a heartless bastard who needs the money. But probably no. But THE TEMPTATION AARGH. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 578 Joined: 7 Sep 2008   | It'd have to be a million or more for me to even consider it. |
Paperboy  Posts: 27 Joined: 28 Mar 2009     | I would press that button until my arm fell off. Only a hundred bucks? I'm milking that cow for as much as it's worth. Now, say it was the original million dollar button, probably 5 pushes would set me for life with proper investing, but now that you've lowered it to a measly hundred? It's not my fault you had to be cheap. |
Paperboy  Posts: 17 Joined: 2 Nov 2009   | No, probably not. But, y'know, if you got to choose the person, that might be a slight incentive... but probably still no. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 58 Joined: 27 Jul 2009     | As long as I didn't know who I was killing I would 40 times |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1036 Joined: 17 Jul 2008    |
Good, for a moment there I thought I was the only one who remembered that episode. I think its horrid that they turned a good episode into what I am willing to wager is going to be a bad movie. I miss creativity. As far as the button itself, I'd only push it if I could push it at least a million times. Killing an individual seems like murder but a large mass seems almost heroic. At least it would help with the population problem. Even better rig a computer to push the button everytime the world population increases by one. If you push the button enough, money won't matter. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3630 Joined: 2 Sep 2007     |
Seeing as it kills a random person I am pretty sure you couldn't get that far before it did you in. I wouldn't hit it. Besides that I don't actually have any need of that $100 not now, I am doing better then ever now. Well mostly. Now if it was $10,000 I might consider it, seeing as I wouldn't actually know or be able to see it happening. Hmm impossible to tell unless you really can produce this button... |
Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 9 Oct 2009  | The odds are that right this second someone already is dying a horrible death. What would there be to lose? But I wouldn't take the chance that this mysterious button coudl actually directly cause the death.. |
Muckraker  Posts: 291 Joined: 5 Sep 2009  |
Think you've got the most epic response possible. Anyway, I'd hit it enough times to end overpopulation. And start my own bank that doesn't deal in retarded investment ideas. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 790 Joined: 28 Jun 2008    | I would push the button as many times as it takes for me to be the richest (living) person on the planet... or the last if necessary. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1053 Joined: 11 Apr 2008    | If it was $1000, then probably.......... |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 564 Joined: 20 Jun 2009  | i would push it so many times that it would break and thinks i am constantly pushing it until everyone is dead and i'm rich XD |
Muckraker  Posts: 325 Joined: 8 May 2008 |
The BOOOOOXXXXX!!! It looks interesting enough, directed by same guy who did Donnie Darko. |
Beat Writer Posts: 140 Joined: 11 Mar 2009  | Nuff said? Anyway, yeah, I'd push the button. The way I see it, there are approx 2 deaths every second (and 4 births). Someone in the world would die whether I pressed the button or not. There are 6.7 billion people in the world. The odds that it would affect someone I know is pretty minute. Finally, (and I can't believe no-one in this thread has picked up on this rather crucial point). HOW THE HELL is pressing a sodding button going to kill some random person in the world? What kind of engineering feat would that have to take, and is it worth it??!! Seriously, the moral aspect of it is all fail! The box couldn't possibly work in the first place & people die whether you push the button or not. So why not make some money off some gullible sap?! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1079 Joined: 23 Oct 2008  | Really? Would you really push it, most of the people in this thread? I know that a lot of you guys are joking, but I want to know how many people would really do it. Think about it, it's $100 for a human life. Some paper in exchange for a person. There's no way. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3263 Joined: 3 Aug 2008    | Knowing my luck, I'd probably die first. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 636 Joined: 1 Oct 2009  | Do I have to? |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 52 Joined: 27 Jun 2009  | $100 isn't worth knowing that I've taken a human life, potentially destroying a family. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3794 Joined: 3 Feb 2009   | No way! What kind of system is that? You'd be doing nothing more than murder for profit with a button such as that, I could never use it. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 826 Joined: 14 May 2008     |
You are over analyzing this however; allow me to break it down to the essential core so as to better attribute to being a philosophical thought. Offering a person this scenario regardless of the financial benefit is fundamentally asking their value upon human life over self indulgence. The button is akin to a metaphor between an action of altruism or egotism; the ultimate test to determine how truly ruthless and devoid of morality you as a human being - a terminology many would find difficult to address you as should the preverbal button be pressed. The button could be replaced with a switch, a door, anything with the conclusion being the identical. Suffice to say consider this a question of merciless determination of success. Are you such a selfish individual that even human life would not impede your path? If you would prefer a realistic equivalent to the question I can provide such. In the world of business, allow us to imagine you have in front of you, the opportunity to overtake a company; in doing so the previous owner of the business will be in shambles, his family could be torn apart and he left bankrupt while you will be benefit from a significant boost in position both influentially and financially. Now... would you overtake his company having full knowledge of what may come in doing so? Hmm that last paragraph is intriguing as it is indeed a realistic possibility. I may just make a topic from that. Anyhow would I press the button? I will admit for one hundred dollars, such is not difficult to come by. If it were one hundred thousand? I would not given it a moment's thought and especially not if it were a million. |
Beat Writer Posts: 140 Joined: 11 Mar 2009 |
Of course I'd push it! Because it WON'T ACTUALLY KILL ANYONE! It's a scientific experiment that tests morality. No-one gets killed at all, because the button is not actually attatched to a weird lottery/doomsday device. If scientists were to conduct the experiment in real life, they'd need to factor in whether the subject is gullible enough to believe that the button will work. - It's like urban myths or superstition...believing something that someone else insists is the truth. Ever said "Candyman" in front of the mirror 5 times? I have, and guess what...nothing happens! Yet because of some tacky horror movie, kids were bricking themselves during halloween by stupid dares like that! Perhaps if the scenario was slightly different....if it wasn't a button, but the trigger of a gun, and the person who was due to die was right in front of me & the gun, then that WOULD be a different matter, but as for the button iteself? Press press press, and claim the money off the idiot who thought I was gullible!!! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 782 Joined: 15 Apr 2009  |
Because it comes from a book. :p /tease OT: No, I wouldn't press it. Too much guilt and I prefer earning my money rather than getting a handout anyway. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 715 Joined: 15 Aug 2008  | The world is overcrowded, I'd press it several billion times |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 389 Joined: 19 Oct 2008  | hey you stole that idea but yeah i would push it like 100000000000times |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 843 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | Not a chance, ever. I wouldn't go to a local school and kill a child. I wouldn't pick up a mothers baby and smash its head on a few rocks. But at least if I did that, I would have the balls to face my evils. Anyone who would ACTUALLY press the button, instead of just talk big, is either an asshole(And not, hey it's funny because im calling myself an asshole on the internet, isn't that cool, I mean like nazi skinhead asshole) or extraordinarily good at being a self-justifying, ignorant prick. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 164 Joined: 17 Jun 2009 | nope human life is more important than any $$$ amount |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 977 Joined: 27 Aug 2009  | I wouldnt |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 698 Joined: 4 Jan 2008    | I'd probably be tempted to push it once just to see if I'm really THAT unlucky :P |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 58 Joined: 10 Sep 2009 | not 4 $100. Make it AT LEAST $1million, and then we can talk. |
Paperboy  Posts: 34 Joined: 18 Oct 2009  | Nah, the guilt wouldn't be worth it for any cash reward. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 94 Joined: 16 Jun 2009  | Depends if people I care about were ruled out. I'm not sure if I want to risk killing one of the few people I bother caring about. Otherwise, I'd push it enough times to live comfortably. Everyone dies eventually, I guess. But maybe not horribly. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2070 Joined: 23 Jan 2008 | If I could choose who dies. Totally. If random, nah. I could be killing a complete asshole, but I could also be killing a good person. Random is bad, and 100 bucks isn't that enticing. Maybe if it was a million and I REALLY needed the money to save someone's life... Maybe...
Hint: Hell is fiction. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 157 Joined: 28 Sep 2009  | Why not push the button? Could pay the rent, get some food, buy some games, and most likely kill some stupid people. Seems like a win situation. Now would this button also have a possibility of killing me though? That would make this decision a bit harder to make if it did. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2070 Joined: 23 Jan 2008 |
Bad logic. The people that would die are dying anyways. You're not substituting those deaths, you're adding onto them. That's like saying "people get shot to death all the time, so why shouldn't I shoot you?". |
| (Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) | |
Reply to Thread
|
|
Not registered? Sign up for a free account! |
Be careful, your Canadian is showing.