Morality Question
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Brilliant, i honestly thought that he would of went for the key though... I was thinking about it before the end of the film and i came to the concluesion that if someone that powerful can pull you from your ordinary life to a room, without you realising... then that someone could very well be that devil everyone talks about.curlycrouton said:
Only temptation i would of had with it all, is whether or not i reakon that £10mil could of been spent on saving more lives then just one. However i think in the end i would have picked the key, best not to interfere, after all its not my choice to choose who lives and dies... (Thats the choice i made before i saw the ending...)
Superb film!
no it is not a ''would you kill for money'' question.in the scenario you dont know if there is anybody or anything on the other side of the door.Mother Yeti said:
I have one question, once I have pulled the trigger, do I have the choice to find out what is behind the door or not. Am I not given that option, and if so which option is forced upon me? If I dont have to know, I pull the trigger no worries. Ignorance is bliss.Falcon123 said:
Oh my... This doesn't seem like a moral question, it's just a fifty-fifty try your luck. But would I? Is the man in a suit with greasy black hair? If so, no. If he's just your average Joe Schmoe, yeah. If he's a business man, NO! So basically, it depends. More often than not, yes.
But how many lives could you save with that money? People die every day from starvation, from disease, from cold, heat, problems that could easily be solved, you could improve the living conditions of thousands of people directly, and in the long run, by improving infrastructure, schools and the like, for many, many more, since those people could in turn help others.bob-2000 said:
I honestly don't know. If it was the case of the black button, it would be much easier. I'd ask more questions, I'd realise what had happened (it was pretty obvious), and I'd press the button if I could make sure the money was put to good use. Needs of the many and all that. After being told I was condemned to hell for it, I'd go willingly and with a smile on my face, knowing my sacrifice led to a better world, and not only my individual salvation.
Most likely no. I couldn't live with myself if I came to know I killed an innocent person. It might come out that there's an evil SOB on the other side that deserves the shot, in which case I wouldn't lose a second of sleep over it, but if I can't know beforehand who's there then I wouldn't take the risk.
yeah, I'd do it. A million dollars is a lot of money and I doubt that there would be anything important on the other side.
Without additional information, no. I have no way of knowing what possible harm to myself, my friends/family, my country or human society I might do upon pulling that trigger. Perhaps bound on the other side of the door is the next Marie Curie, Bethoven or Pascal. Perhaps my mother or father is there.Falcon123 said:
Without knowing anything else, I cannot evaluate the possible harm or good of my actions, either to myself or to society at large. So the possible bad outweighs the certain reward, in my mind. Society might benefit from me pulling the trigger or it might not, I do not know. Society will not benefit from me having the reward money. The safest and most moral course of action is therefore to eliminate all the possibility of a bad result to many, while eliminating the reward to only me as a tradeoff. In action, to not pull the trigger. In this manner, no good or evil is done until more information of the situation becomes available, whereupon a new judgement could be made.
Even if it was a person, would they die? Say the bullet only hits their arm.
If the person in question lives, hell no. If it were a family member, I might have to explain the circumstances, and they'd distrust me for life.
If they died instantly, same answer. I wouldn't kill for money.
If the person in question lives, hell no. If it were a family member, I might have to explain the circumstances, and they'd distrust me for life.
If they died instantly, same answer. I wouldn't kill for money.
Would not want to kill someone but then again $1 million would come in handy. Pull the trigger and pray i do not hit anybody
Sure, ill pull the trigger. Hell, i would probably pull it just to see what was on the other side. that, and if there is a human in the other room, he has most likely told them the exact same thing, so i have no qualms. if it isnt a human on the other side, oh well. no problems whatsoever. call me evil and revile me if you want, i dont care. he asked for what i would do and i told him.