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Thread: You press button you get 1 mil. the catch: 1 random person somewhere dies

post 1557131691 07-25-2018, 09:42 AM
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Assuming there was a guarantee that no one of any importance to that person in any way (family, friends, leaders of their country/area, etc.), 95% of people would hit that million dollar button 10+ times, or a lot more based on what happens in the heat of the moment.

It all depends on how you justify it, but let's say you hit the button 100x for 100 million dollars. So 100 random people instantly dead. If you kept half and donated the other 50 million to reputable charities within your state/province, there's a legitimate argument to be made that you'd be doing far more good than bad despite shelfishly keeping 50 million.
post 1557132071 07-25-2018, 09:47 AM
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ITT: People who are blowing the value of $1M out of proportion.

You guys are phucked up.
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post 1557132361 07-25-2018, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted By reverse79⏩
0you live with blood on your hands for the rest of your life. Karma gonna get yo ass
then I just keep pressing the button until she dies too
Originally Posted By northernlights7⏩
Assuming there was a guarantee that no one of any importance to that person in any way (family, friends, leaders of their country/area, etc.), 95% of people would hit that million dollar button 10+ times, or a lot more based on what happens in the heat of the moment.

It all depends on how you justify it, but let's say you hit the button 100x for 100 million dollars. So 100 random people instantly dead. If you kept half and donated the other 50 million to reputable charities within your state/province, there's a legitimate argument to be made that you'd be doing far more good than bad despite shelfishly keeping 50 million.
they never said where the million comes from.... maybe it just gets taken from poor people

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Originally Posted By Chezdon⏩
At least make it interesting. Less money/more people.

I'd kill a million people for $20,000,000 easily.
You're worse than most dictators then.

I mean a million people has to be worth a few 100 mil surely. I can understand genocide for 100 million, 20 though is too little.
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Moral answer, perhaps?

It costs about $3500 to save a human life, per some non-profits, if the money is used wisely. So if you press once, you lose a random life, and save 1000000/3500= 286 people with that money, for a net 285 saved.

Since you have now saved the most cheaply saved people, the next group will cost more to save (not to mention some slight inflationary effect of this newly created $1mm.) Maybe $3510. So now $1mm only saved 285 people, less the one lost, for a net of 284.

Repeat until it costs $1mm to save a single person.

You can save a lot of people.
post 1557135031 07-25-2018, 10:19 AM
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Think i used to be the guy that said i wouldnt do it

Knowing miscers. I prob would

Prob once though
post 1557136701 07-25-2018, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted By jacemano⏩
You're worse than most dictators then.

I mean a million people has to be worth a few 100 mil surely. I can understand genocide for 100 million, 20 though is too little.
Ah well. 100,000,000 China men could die and I wouldn't bat an eyelid. $20m would give me and my family a work-free life. Pretty easy trade.
post 1557137181 07-25-2018, 10:41 AM
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id press that **** 500 times for 500 mill.
I think id that point id be able to live a worryfree life
post 1557137951 07-25-2018, 10:47 AM
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does a tree falling down in a forest make a sound if youre not there?

Does you pushing a button actually kill someone if youre not there
post 1557138141 07-25-2018, 10:48 AM
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Can I just hold it down for faster gainz?
I call it "Celebration". It's sexual, and violent...

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post 1557138961 07-25-2018, 10:55 AM
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Would contemplate if the 1mil was needed to save the life of someone I knew but most of the people's lives I'd wanna save in order to spare a random life could probably come up with the money needed w/o the help of the button.

Not sure what kinda medical procedure you need 1mil in cash for though.
post 1557139451 07-25-2018, 10:59 AM
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It would be like Infinity Gauntlet up in dis bish
post 1557140811 07-25-2018, 11:10 AM
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I would initially not press it for weeks... then realize it's just one person and swear I would only press it one time.

Then I would probably press it like 100 times.
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The planet has way too many people already. So technically I would be helping others by lowering the population by one.
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post 1557141431 07-25-2018, 11:15 AM
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There's a chance that it kills someone who is in extreme pain whether through illness or other means, so out of the goodness of my heart I'd press it probably 100 times. The chance it gets someone in my family is probably less a chance than winning the lottery, so nothing to worry about.
post 1557142051 07-25-2018, 11:21 AM
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Nice try OP but everyone knows that the Misc is full of socio/psychopaths with little regard for human life. They’d press that button til their fingers broke.

Let’s try this one.... someone offers you $1M to shoot your dog (no one else knows about it... just you and the shooter... and your dog will die 100%). Do you say yes?
post 1557142331 07-25-2018, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted By nvrstopworking⏩
Nice try OP but everyone knows that the Misc is full of socio/psychopaths with little regard for human life. They’d press that button til their fingers broke.

Let’s try this one.... someone offers you $1M to shoot your dog (no one else knows about it... just you and the shooter... and your dog will die 100%). Do you say yes?
That’s not even kind of comparable
post 1557142531 07-25-2018, 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted By nvrstopworking⏩
Let’s try this one.... someone offers you $1M to shoot your dog (no one else knows about it... just you and the shooter... and your dog will die 100%). Do you say yes?
Can I keep buying more dogs and shooting them and collecting $1m each time?
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I would hit it 5-10 times I think.

Would probably do some math first and figure out how much I would need to have a nice plot of land and home fully paid and then see how much would be needed to stay invested so dividends could be my income source for $100k+/year.
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Good thing i have good practice from Mario Party 64, brb pressing A a hundred times on 10 seconds.
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I dunno don’t even wanna think about it since it’s not something that will ever happen in life
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Once, then spend the money to hire an engineer to build me a robot arm to press it 7 billion more times while I travel the world to check on the progress.
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Originally Posted By ChairmanWaffle⏩
Moral answer, perhaps?

It costs about $3500 to save a human life, per some non-profits, if the money is used wisely. So if you press once, you lose a random life, and save 1000000/3500= 286 people with that money, for a net 285 saved.

Since you have now saved the most cheaply saved people, the next group will cost more to save (not to mention some slight inflationary effect of this newly created $1mm.) Maybe $3510. So now $1mm only saved 285 people, less the one lost, for a net of 284.

Repeat until it costs $1mm to save a single person.

You can save a lot of people.
Yeah im sure the father of a girl he was tucking in bed at night and randomly died in front of his eyes is grateful that you saved some random african kid. Im sure he gets your moral compass
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Originally Posted By ChairmanWaffle⏩
Moral answer, perhaps?

It costs about $3500 to save a human life, per some non-profits, if the money is used wisely. So if you press once, you lose a random life, and save 1000000/3500= 286 people with that money, for a net 285 saved.

Since you have now saved the most cheaply saved people, the next group will cost more to save (not to mention some slight inflationary effect of this newly created $1mm.) Maybe $3510. So now $1mm only saved 285 people, less the one lost, for a net of 284.

Repeat until it costs $1mm to save a single person.

You can save a lot of people.
Not exactly the most convincing moral argument- killing someone and using their resources to save multiple others. Consider the analogy:

A doctor has 6 patients lying on their death beds, each with a specific organ that is failing (one has a failing heart, one has a failing liver, two have failing kidneys, and two have failing lungs). Is it moral for the doctor to just take one healthy human (say perhaps, you), and kill you, and use each of your 6 organs to save the other 6 people? lol don't think many would agree this is a moral action, and society clearly doesn't think so either (laws).

Some thoughts on the OP:

-Not surprisingly like 95% of the misc seems to want to eagerly press the button. How many of these are self-proclaimed Christians I wonder, hmm. Must not really be that confident in that afterlife heaven vs. hell, because if pushing the button means going to hell, you would have a much, much bigger incentive to not press it.

-I wonder if the amount of people saying press the button would change if, instead of simply pressing the button, you had to literally kill a random stranger walking in the street carrying a briefcase of $1 Mil (with the assumption wouldn't get hurt or caught)- which is really an equivalent scenario, but a little "closer to the action", and I wonder if this would change anything.

-If you believe in strict determinism, it doesn't matter whether you decide to press the button, because you have no choice really. Whether you press that button is simply the result of physical states in the neurons/atoms in your brain etc, it's just a built-in property of the universe.

-It would be deeply ironic if the person hitting the button hit that 1 in 7 billion chance and immediately died when hitting it the first time. The end.
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what if instead of one person dies, one person gets tortured in the most extreme pain possible for all of eternity? you ****s still press?
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Originally Posted By numberguy12⏩
-I wonder if the amount of people saying press the button would change if, instead of simply pressing the button, you had to literally kill a random stranger walking in the street carrying a briefcase of $1 Mil (with the assumption wouldn't get caught)- which is really an equivalent scenario, but a litte "closer to the action", and I wonder if this would change anything.
well, fukin, obviously. anonymously pushing a button is complete detachment from it and that's the point

knowing myself i couldn't live with the guilt so i'd probably press it 10 times or something, go do what i want to do for a while, give the rest to family and off myself
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Should have made a poll. 20-100. The world is overpopulated as ****. As long as it's a painless death I would do it.
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Originally Posted By GolfPants⏩
Can I keep buying more dogs and shooting them and collecting $1m each time?
Can’t be some random dog. Has to be yours and you have to have had him for at least 5 years. So if you want to do it every 5 years? Sure.
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