Poll: Would you press the button

[Lugbzurg]

Gander attention from a whole slew of girls after I murder about 16% of the human race?

Um... Do something I don't want to get something I don't want? No, thanks.

 

[gigastrike]

Press the button to have everyone I know be a woman? Are you mad?

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Agreed that you'd have to be a total asshat to press that button.
Man up and buy a new suit.

Surely that should be "suit up and buy more suits."

OT: Of course not. Where's the fun in the game if there's nobody to challenge you? You have to have competition or you're just coasting through life. If you really want so much easy sex try and find a vulnerable divorcee, a desperate fatty, a cougar or even just a regular prostitute. C'mon 30% of you guys, where's your fucking game?

 

[370999]

Why can't I threaten my country with it. I'll like to keep the button and ensure that my country pays me off every year to not kill a lot of people. I never have to work and live the good life.

 

[thepyrethatburns]

However, you'd have to be the most egotistical dick to actually push that button and deny millions the chance at life, just because you have that outlook.

Think about all the partners, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, teachers, drivers, doctors etc. who just vanished!

I am so tempted to push the "Derail the topic into another abortion debate" button.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

*snip*

1. Even with your statistic 25% of those eliminated will be worthwhile individuals.
2. Going back to Hitler then, in his experience Jews were less than people. Was he justified in his actions? What if you consider all Muslims to be terrible, are they worth eliminating? Christians? Atheists? No.
3. If 30% of all living men never existed then there is a 30% your father (if he still lives) would no longer exist, meaning neither do you. There is a 30% chance Obama never existed, a 30% chance that Bill Gates never existed. There are too many variables.
4. I have read history books. People were pretty awesome. Lincoln was a boss, as was George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt. There has always been awesome people, just like there has always been douches. How about the enlightenment, there were a whole lot of great people then. Even the Renascence was pretty awesome. You just happen to be looking for the bad things and so you've found them. A pessimist looks for the flaws with the world, and in finding them, feels justified in overlooking the positives.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I don't care for attention to begin with, so I will pass.

 

[Marik2]

I don't care for attention to begin with, so I will pass.

Shocking cuz even if you don't care about the attention you are a bit of a misanthrope and would be glad to wipe out a lot of people on earth

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

*snip*

2. Yes Hitler was a moron, but you are making similar judgments here. You are declaring groups as entirely evil (men), which somewhat foolish. Then you are declaring that the world would be better off without them, which is in a way logical though I still find it to be wrong as it would be better that they learn and develop rather than be killed. I also am against assuming that others are worthy of death, especially when they are others you only know of in a demographic sense.

3. Okay, if they never existed then they never did anything and the world would have to reflect that. If they did exist but just up and disappeared then they would die and the world would experience the effects of this. The only other possible option is that they would disappear and the world would forget they ever existed, which has it's own barrel full of issues. This can never be a good thing.

4. I watched that video. Just because it could be better does not mean that your actions will make it better. You will simply be randomly removing people from existence, an unknown portion of whom may be worth getting rid of. I honestly don't think that will improve anything.

 

[thePyro_13]

So, push this button and have a 30% chance of dying on the spot?

I don't like those odds.

 

[renegade7]

Yea, because I like pressing buttons.

Do I get to pick the 30% that disappear? Like individually? Because I could erase some of the worst people in the world AND get some

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I don't care for attention to begin with, so I will pass.

Shocking cuz even if you don't care about the attention you are a bit of a misanthrope and would be glad to wipe out a lot of people on earth

Chances of someone I like being destroyed is too high.

 

[thelustyargoniandude]

Dude, it's a button. If I'm standing right next to it, even if I know it might kill me, my family, or my friends, I can't really leave the room with a clear conscious until I've pressed it.

 

[spartan231490]

If it might eliminate me or any of my friends, fuck no. Bros before hoes

 

[ThePixel]

We could do with a cull on the population, so for the good of mankind yes

 

[Valdus]

I don't need some magic button to get a girlfriend.

Having said that if it was shiny enough I may push it anyway so...

 

[UnrealCanine]

Some people want to rid the world of douchebags

Some people have no worries about instantly killing millions of people

Pot, meet kettle

 

[Mayamellissa]

Pressed the button. Don't care if I disappeared or not.

 

[Blunderboy]

Because nothing turns the ladies on like the sudden erasing of millions of people.
Presumably including relatives of theirs.

Yeah I'm going with no.

 

[SirDoom]

I would set up a machine to press the button again and again. Because if you continue to remove 30% of the population repeatedly, eventually the number of remaining people will approach 0.

Because, come on. Can't risk leaving even one bad person alive, now can I? It's all or nothing, and I've chosen the latter option way too many times in my life. Time to take action! Time to do something that will get me remembered! (Or at least ensure that nobody is left to remember anything...)