That's tough. Most of my immediate family I hate, but I might get unlucky and hit someone I actually like by pressing the button.
Would probably decline.
Would probably decline.
Poll: Would You Push The Button? (Moral Dilemma)
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i don't know if i would or not, how long do i have to think about it?
i don't know if i would or not, how long do i have to think about it?
Nope. Give me all the money you want and I still won't kill anyone for you, let alone my family. I'd rather have dignity and morality than money.
No on principal alone, even if I could choose who the immediate family was since I care for all of them a lot, although perhaps to a lesser extent with some than others, and I don't even think a greater amount of money would tempt me since I'd have to live with what I'd done for the rest of my life.
Now if it was someone from my extended family? Shit there's like a queue of contenders for the honour of dying so we can all be richer.
Now if it was someone from my extended family? Shit there's like a queue of contenders for the honour of dying so we can all be richer.
Not for any amount of money. My family may piss me off, but they've done a lot for me, and I would never do anything to harm any of them. If I could choose one of the 7 billion people on this planet to die I'd be hammering that button like a Whack-A-Mole game (Africa would be a much better place if certain high level government figures would just keel over and die already) but I wouldn't press that button for anyone who deserved it.
Here's what you do. You reveal to the figure that your whole family is dead and that you're his long lost son. Then you look him in the eye and push the button.
If someone's willing to really give you a million dollars to see if you'd kill a family member, that person is sick. So sick, that he or she probably spent other untold amounts of money to either track your family down and hook them up to a device that will fire when you push the button. Or at least tell someone he hired to shoot them.Kaleion said:
The answer for meis no. to anyone. My conscience goes crazy if I don't hold the door open for people and I feel like the worst person in the world. This would kill me.
In the end, that person would be stopped. Even if I die doing, I would stop this person for the same reason I do anything; It feels like the right thing to do for me and others.
I know life isn't sunshine and good intentions. That doesn't mean I should stop trying to do what I think is right.
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What happens if you have no living next of kin/immediate family? does it kill your close friends? a random person? a pet?
If it was random people I would want to know if I could press it more than once. (Heck I'd press it for 100k$.) If it must be my family members I wouldn't press it because they are too important to me.
If it was random people I would want to know if I could press it more than once. (Heck I'd press it for 100k$.) If it must be my family members I wouldn't press it because they are too important to me.
No and there's no amount of money that would tempt me. I like my family.
You could offer me immortality, world domination and Alison Brie; the answer would still be no.
You could offer me immortality, world domination and Alison Brie; the answer would still be no.
If the button instead killed any random guy in the world? Sure.
If there's a 100% guarantee that I'd lose a family member and it'll be my sister? Possibly.
Otherwise? No.
If there's a 100% guarantee that I'd lose a family member and it'll be my sister? Possibly.
Otherwise? No.
I said no simply because without my sister I would straight up be dead. I mean if I was an only child sure, hell, my parents would probably tell me to do it. But not while my little sister is in danger. She's worth more than anyone could ever pay.
Id press it. Im very cynical and i dont believe any of this spooky mumbo jumbo. The only way my family would die from pressing the button is if he killed them. If that was the case how is he going to kill my family if i use the million to move my family to the carribean where he wouldnt find us
Absolutely not.
...Well that was easy. I was hoping for something thought-provoking =S
EDIT: I guess I should say why - because I'm not a heartless monster. Because I value the lives of my family a damn lot more than that. Because a million is hardly gonna set me up for life anyway.
...Well that was easy. I was hoping for something thought-provoking =S
EDIT: I guess I should say why - because I'm not a heartless monster. Because I value the lives of my family a damn lot more than that. Because a million is hardly gonna set me up for life anyway.