A question for you, escapists.
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"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" - acredited to einstein (may or may not be him)sam42ification said:
Everyone has their worth, and their own pool of knowledge that no-one else knows.
You never know what you may accomplish in life, even when it's nearly over.
Balancing greed, the overpopulation of the planet and my opinion on the intelligence of the average person.
Oh hell yeah. I'd press the button at least five times, just to make sure.
Oh hell yeah. I'd press the button at least five times, just to make sure.
Firstly you always make good threads Retyopy XDretyopy said:
The thing about pushing the button is it would stop you feeling guilty as, if you didn't want to feel guilty you wouldn't by power of the button, furthermore the power of the button would allow the person to save many many lives if he wanted to out weighing the 5 that were chosen.
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Why, yes, we press that button about every four years here in the states. We press it gleefully (those 5 people are more like 500,000 and they're usually brown people). Cynicism makes us odd.retyopy said:
Yeah, I would. More than 5 people die every second, and I'm sure much more than that are being born. Those 5 people are 1,394,000,000ths of the world population.
Sure it's selfish, because the gain isn't really worth 5 people's lives, but the consequence of the death of them is so detached from me that there is essentially no change.
Sure it's selfish, because the gain isn't really worth 5 people's lives, but the consequence of the death of them is so detached from me that there is essentially no change.
You said that you would kill five people to have a paradise, that is greed. The first post did not say that if you didn't press the button you would die.weker said:
This brings me to an interesting aspect of this problem that may have gone underappreciated by people here, which is the correlation between the deliberation that goes into pressing the button and the consequences of satisfying the whims of someone making that deliberation.OriginalLadders said:
The exact terms are that the whims of the person who presses the button would be satisfied. Killing 5 people is stated as the cost of pressing the button. What this means, then, is that the person who presses the button in this in mind will have their whim of killing 5 people for the sake of satisfying their whims satisfied.
Does this compound with 5 people independently killed by the button, or is the whim itself responsible? That is, could pressing the button have the effect of killing nobody by someone who reasonably deduces that the button itself will only satisfy the whim, and that by lacking the whim one would not pay the price? Or could it have the much stronger effect of killing many more people (potentially millions), in accordance with the mindset present at the point of pressing the button?
No, I wouldn't press it, even if people wouldn't die. I don't want to just coast through life, I want to actually have conflict in life, who knows I might do something great if I'm challenged.
I was talking about respective for life not the button, also you jump to conclusions that my life goals are selfish, however my goals in life are to bring joy to many by being a games designer, furthermore the money and such I gain can be used to save more life then were used for the buttons powers.genericusername64 said:
If I was convinced that those things would happen? I'd be more than tempted to abandon my most basic of moral principles. But ultimately, I wouldn't do it. Luckily I value self-respect more than having my every wish granted.
This question is painstakingly simple; I choose not to press the button.
Why? Because all my life I have worked for everything that I have. I don't want to be catered or have my every desired fulfilled (that's my siblings for you).
If I want something, I will be patient and get it when the timing is right and I am satisfied with it.
Aside from that, I don't believe that one man's grief can bring about another man's happiness. Also, I wouldn't want to be killed off by a button (not a very noble death, to say the least).
Why? Because all my life I have worked for everything that I have. I don't want to be catered or have my every desired fulfilled (that's my siblings for you).
If I want something, I will be patient and get it when the timing is right and I am satisfied with it.
Aside from that, I don't believe that one man's grief can bring about another man's happiness. Also, I wouldn't want to be killed off by a button (not a very noble death, to say the least).
I might.
One the one hand it would solve all my problems and even though there are morale implication, I wouldn't be massively be bothered. People die every day and I could always use my new found greatness to help the people of the world. I wouldn't feel guilt for it was fr a greater good of me saving many man others.
On the other hand though, I would still feel some guilt for I had practically been evil in pressing the button. Also it might just make life too easy.
Like playing a game with all the cheats on.
Overall I think I would. I could benefit mankind and it would be pretty cool.
One the one hand it would solve all my problems and even though there are morale implication, I wouldn't be massively be bothered. People die every day and I could always use my new found greatness to help the people of the world. I wouldn't feel guilt for it was fr a greater good of me saving many man others.
On the other hand though, I would still feel some guilt for I had practically been evil in pressing the button. Also it might just make life too easy.
Like playing a game with all the cheats on.
Overall I think I would. I could benefit mankind and it would be pretty cool.