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ethics : BUTTON OF DEATH

[+] serious ballot by Andrew_Anorak
ACTIVE Wed Apr 30, 08 - Thu Apr 30, 09
This is based on an old Twilight Zone episode that's being remade with Cameron Diaz.
You are given a box with a button. If you push the button you will recieve one million dollars, and someone will die. That person is someone you don't know, and nobody will trace it back to you.

What do you do?

push the button
don't push the button

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COMMENTS:
Tough question.

Can't I just have the devil-bobblehead napkin dispenser from the Shatner episode instead? 102

by _Beelzebubba on Wed Apr 30, 08 9:29am [+]

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds it may incriminate me... 105

that's what I call temptation...

by thesoothsayer on Wed Apr 30, 08 9:42am [+]

Voted : don't push the button
This is a great question. People make this decision all the time. They do it over far less than one million dollars though. Sometimes its done passively by inaction and other times more actively. We could stop a lot of hunger, poverty, crimes, genocide, etc if people would sacrifice in the short term or even sometimes with the smallest amount of action.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Wed Apr 30, 08 10:19am [+]

Haha, look at all the "don't" votes. It's funny how people will stick with their morals when the question is only imagined.

In reality most people would be tapping away like a video gamer on Amphetamines, lol

by britvic55 on Wed Apr 30, 08 12:02pm [+]

Voted : push the button
can i push it more than once?

i would be like that skinners rhesus monkey, i would be sitting there continuously praying that button ;-)

by LCD on Wed Apr 30, 08 1:06pm [+]

Voted : don't push the button
You could be the next victim if another person later on gets the same button.

by Les6Hithe6Wins6Again on Wed Apr 30, 08 2:13pm [+]

Voted : push the button
Is there a limit on how many times it can be pushed?

I hope not.

by UncleRandy on Wed Apr 30, 08 2:16pm [+]

" In reality most people would be tapping away like a video gamer on Amphetamines, lol"

And selling their soul in the process.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Wed Apr 30, 08 2:25pm [+]

^ You can have my soul for a few rapid, tappity taps of that button. 074

(Real currency, not that worthless American stuff :o)

by britvic55 on Wed Apr 30, 08 3:51pm [+]

"You could be the next victim if another person later on gets the same button."

That could happen whether you push the button or not. At least you'd have been partying it up til that point.

by britvic55 on Wed Apr 30, 08 3:55pm [+]

I probably wouldn't though... Unlesssss you get to name the intended stiff. Now let me think.... Muhahahahaha!!!

by britvic55 on Wed Apr 30, 08 3:58pm [+]

Voted : don't push the button
That person I do not know has a different body, different experiences, and different hopes. But he or she has the same soul. What hurts me hurts all people. It is just the limitations of my body that do not let mr feel it. But on another level, I know.

The money would not do any good to the kind of person with a mind faulty enough to take it. The money would probably wind up ruining them and everyone they love.

by forgetmenot on Wed Apr 30, 08 6:24pm [+]

Voted : don't push the button
I need money, but not that much.

by skylab on Wed Apr 30, 08 6:45pm [+]

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