I will pay you 2 million dollars a year...

[niglett]

i will do it seeing that one in five already smoke it wont make much difference. also if i dont get the job an other even better advertiser will take the job. would you want a crap ad campaign or a really good one. i'm crap at it so ill do it for the greater good!

 

[cheese_wizington]

Not my fault kids are dumbshits!

Sign me up.

http://moniquestuart.com/i/child-smoking.jpg

Your welcome.

 

[theultimateend]

if you are willing to run an advertising campaign aimed at kids for cigarrettes. One out of every ten kids that see any of these advertisements will end up becoming addicted. Subsequently, they will die due because of their habits.

Are you willing to take the job? Why or why not?

(This is purely hypothetical, I'm just curious as to how many people would actually take money over lives of their fellow men/women)

Interesting replies so far...

But how about this

You will be paid $125,000 dollars a year (without taxes and all that fun stuff that would bring it down to probably about 100,000), would you still do it?

Sure. If people are willing to succumb to advertising then so be it.

It isn't survival of the fittest, it never was. If anyone out there is too stupid to not be killing themselves then they are too stupid to be staying alive and perpetuating extra generations of ignorant and self destructive individuals.

Now I like to think that the vast majority of people don't fall into this categ

I get ads telling me my dick is too small, too limp, that I'm too thin, that I'm too fat, that I need bigger breasts, that I need harder abs, that I need 3 chicks at one time, that there are horny asians in my area.

There are ads for nasty smelling body sprays, shitty food, shitty gas, shitty cars, and various other things bombarding me every minute of every day.

Do I buy into any of it? No. I do buy, I buy a lot, I am a consumer whore, but I make sure not to purchase anything shitty and especially nothing that advertises out the taint to try and recruit me.

Which is one of the many reasons I never joined the military.

 

[Not Lord Atkin]

you know what?
they smoke anyway. making it legal will not make a difference. The only reason they smoke is, that underage smoking is not allowed. And people like doing things that are not allowed, especially children. Just remember the alcohol prohibition in 1920s and it's actual results.

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

Sure, but this is really unrealistic, because only 1 out of 20 kids that saw the advert would die from smoking, not 1 out of 10.

 

[Caliostro]

You will be paid $125,000 dollars a year (without taxes and all that fun stuff that would bring it down to probably about 100,000), would you still do it?

Yep. Natural selection AND I get money for it. If I told them to jump of a bridge and they did, I'd be doing the world a favor.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Even the reduced-pay option is about £4k a month. Sign me up!

 

[Blackadder51]

Fuck dat shit,

That is so not worth it

There's my answer. Not worth it in the least. What's up with your alternative though. Being paid less to do the same thing? Or am I missing something?

Well, i guess my rough alternative was that if i was payed more or less kids addicted but it was a rough thought at most

 

[Mr.Pandah]

This isn't about kids being "dumbshits" or any of that stuff. If these numbers were to be believed, and no matter what, 1 out of every 10 kids would end up becoming addicted, do you still feel you could go through with it?

Hypothetically, could you sit in your office, making either amount of money, knowing you're putting millions of kids in their graves?

 

[Aschenkatza]

See, I would do that and then add subliminal messages in that would make them not smoke! I'd get paid to not make children smoke.

Besides, the cigarette companies have tons of Anti-Smoking commercials out and yet people still buy them...
WAIT WAIT WAIT: It wouldn't be my fault if children smoked. Because it's still illegal for them to smoke in my state any younger than 18. So it's not my fault they got cigarettes, it's someone else's fault for letting them get them.

 

[Deleted]

Hell yeah, of course if I get sued I won't reveal my true billionaire status, effectively tanking the lawsuit.

 

[Graustein]

It depends. First, I'm assuming that all these shenanigans are legal.

Second assumption is that if I don't take the job, someone else will. So, no matter what, kids are going to die in droves from this advertisement, regardless of who's behind the wheel.

If neither of these conditions are met, then my answer is "hell no". I doubt I'd be able to kill one person for 2 million if that death is avoidable. Not in good conscience, at least.

If the above conditions are met, then I'd donate 1-1.5 million a year towards cancer research. 2 million is an absurd amount, I don't need that much, at all. I think 500k would be sufficient for my purposes. 1 million if it's not a longterm job. I don't WANT to live in a mansion with a hundred-thousand dollar car or any of that crap. I'll be able to live comfortably, help cancer sufferers and rationalise my own role in the proliferation of cancer with an "if not me, then someone else, and that someone else would just keep the 2mil" mentality.

I'd vastly prefer that the entire ad campaign not go through, though. But if it's inevitable, I'd do my best to mitigate the effects.

Also, a little food for thought for those taking the "nobody pays attention to ads anyway" route: Why, then, is advertisement such a massive industry? In a world where the corporations doing the advertisement will do anything legal, and some that's not, to min/max their costs/profits?

 

[Lexodus]

Deal*shakes hand*
kinda sad how 10 outta every 10 kids are idiots, but oh well.

Fix'd.

 

[Juven Ignus]

I'd have to say no.
I just can't take that kind of guilt, knowing that I've essentially killed a child.

 

[The Cheezy One]

we are not all superheroes, and while you could show off hypothetically about "id never break my morale code", i bet about 50% of the people that said know would change their mind if it was real.
on the other hand, people saying yes (like me) my not be able to go through with it, and back out at the last minute

id probably do it for 2 years, then donate any left over money to lung cancer hospitals and fighting addiction to smoking e.g. NHS
all i want the money for is driving lessons, car, insurance and a ps3.
whats with all the 'morality' threads these day? at least this one is original, but ive seen the "shoot 2 people and save 3" one about 9 times in the last 3 months

 

[A.A.K]

yea id do it. its the kids fault if he dies. if s/hes stupid, i cant help it.

 

[Hristo Petrov]

Sure the world is overpopulated so I'd be doing a sort of service

 

[Tonimata]

I despise smoking and smoking habits. There is nothing that irritates me more than being around people that smoke, and my father is powerfully compulsive about that. But I also despise kids.
AAAH THE DILEMMA!

 

[Xanian]

I don't smoke, but the taxes will pay for their schools. Hit me.

That...is...awesome.

And to double it up, for the second time on this forum, yes I would, because people will smoke anyway to illustrate some point to society.