Poll: Would you push the button?

[nicholaxxx]

I would push it.

a lot

 

[riskroWe]

Wimps.Think logically here.

1. It never says you won't be the one to die.
2. It never says where the dollar bill lands,could be in your toilet.
3. The button may be a trap.
4. Loved ones could die.

But still,rig it up to a machine,and if dollars spawn in same place,make a bag.

1. Oh well. I die. Game over.
2. They would overflow eventually
3. Couldn't possibly see that coming, nobody would blame you.
4. I don't love very many people, the chances of that are miniscule. And even if they did: meh, I'd get over it. Most people wouldn't though.

2. Let's apply Pascal's theorem to this situation. Draw up a 2x2 grid. On the one side, write: Push & Don't push - On the other axis, write Bluffing & Real. In each box, write the pros & cons of pressing the button according to how the criteria play out. - You will see that in this scenario, anyone would press the button. Someone already applied this to Global warming, and Pascal infamously applied it to the existence of God.

It's called Pascal's "Wager", and it's a joke. It's assumes a dichotomy and equal probability and doesn't account for unforseen consequences. Although it can be used here because hypothetically, we're assuming there are only two options with definite outcomes.

How many of these threads have to be made before you get it through your skulls that human life is intrinsically worthless?

Can anyone point out the contradiction in terms?

What? 'Intrinsically worthless'? That works...
And that doesn't mean I don't value your opinions enough to want to change them. Intrinsic, I said. Meaning that I don't care if some random stranger dies.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

No, not really. I might get someone else to push the button and then mug them, but I wouldn't do it myself.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

How many of these threads have to be made before you get it through your skulls that human life is intrinsically worthless?

it's not worthless, it's worth $100.

 

[firedfns13]

Not for a $100. What if it's my girlfriend, or my mom, or me?
Though if it were my dad, or my sister, or my girlfriends parents, or my government teacher I'd press it without needing reimbursement.
Err.
This makes me seem like an awful person. They're awful people, trust me.

 

[Valiance]

Is this aboot that stupid movie coming out?

There is a movie like that coming out, but that's not where I got the idea, honest.

That movie is based on a Twilight Zone episode. You push the button, it kills someone you don't know, you get money.

I don't remember its entirety, but...After whoever pushes the button and gets the money, they ask what happen to the box after they push the button...

The guy was like "Oh, we keep it, and keep traveling around with it...And we give it to someone and ask them the same thing...Somebody YOU DON'T KNOW" heavily implying that she may be the next victim.

 

[Energylegzz]

Only 100$? Screw that make it 1000 and we'll talk.

 

[Enzeru92]

I wouldn't for just 100 bucks even if I could push multiple time a person's life would be on the line cause i know anyone wouldn't just press it once.
I mean if it was $10000000000000000 that would be a different story

 

[riskroWe]

How many of these threads have to be made before you get it through your skulls that human life is intrinsically worthless?

it's not worthless, it's worth $100.

No it's worthless, because you could give ANY amount of money and we would still press the button. Make it 1 cent, I'd press it 800,000,000 times.

 

[Satin6T]

probably, especially if it's a gigantic red button
I would take pleasure in it

 

[irishstormtrooper]

I'd press it a few times. Not enough to make myself feel like a psychopathic serial killer, but enough to make a few easy dollars. I feel terrible saying it, though.

It also depends on who dies. If I killed bank executives, I would be all for it.

 

[Urgh76]

i would never push the button and that is the truth

It's a great idea for a movie but let's see if they follow through correctly

 

[weirdaljedifan2]

$100 just for one dead person? What a rip-off!

 

[open trap]

i said no because it would really suck if it was you that died

 

[trelloskilos]

Not for a $100. What if it's my girlfriend, or my mom, or me?
Though if it were my dad, or my sister, or my girlfriends parents, or my government teacher I'd press it without needing reimbursement.
Err.
This makes me seem like an awful person. They're awful people, trust me.

The probability of someone you know being killed is staggeringly small.

Let's say you know 2000 people in the world (Friends, relatives, work colleagues, aquaintances, & people that you see every day). The odds that one of them will die are approx 3.4 million to 1.

You have better odds of winning the lottery than killing someone you might know by pushing the button.

 

[whatdoyouthink]

I would want to but i wouldnt..... cuz the random person could be yourself

 

[zenoaugustus]

That's a fucked up situation. No. Absolutely not.

 

[quack35]

No, I wouldn't be able to live with myself.