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

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lodo_bear

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Mr.Pandah said:
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?
If I ever met someone with the power to create an ad campaign that could truly compel people to do anything, I'd consider killing that person. That level of power is too dangerous to exist.
 

dietpeachsnapple

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*cough*

I get to kill the 10% of the population that is cajoled into dangerous/unhealthy habits, AND get paid for it?
 

WickedSkin

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I have a history of not making life easy for people. I can't see the problem with this. It's fucking 2 mil dollars a year!
 

Klepa

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Mcface said:
hell yeah.
I never bought into the advertising, no excuse for anyone else.

everyone is able to make their own decisions, and if it kills kids, shit, natural selection my friends.

"THIS MAN WITH THE COOL VOICE IS TELLING ME TO SMOKE, I AM SO GOING TO"
the human race is better off without someone that easily manipulated.
Pretty much my opinion, although I might've sugar coated it a bit myself.

I thought The Escapist would be fairly unanimous on this..

GTA wasn't responsible when person A shot person B.
Why should a commercial be responsible for person C's smoking habits?
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Are you guys telling me that Jack Thompson was right?

But to answer the OP.. I would take it without a shadow of a doubt.

If the nature of the question was money vs. lives of children, and the premise was just an example.. Then I really wouldn't know. I guess I'd pass on the offer, and spend the rest of my life regretting it.
 

kannibus

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No I'd probably not. It'd be hypocritical of me as I don't smoke myself.

Or perhaps, on second, I'd take the job and the money but then make a REALLY craptacular fiasco of the whole business. Thus the company ends up in the bin, I have my money, sprats are no worse off than they were and my conscience is clear.

WIN! WIN!
 

garfoldsomeoneelse

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Yes, because compassion is a luxury affordable only by those who are well-off enough to the point where they needn't care for themselves anymore.

I am most certainly not at that stage. Pay me two million a year to personally execute those one in ten, and I'm still in.
 

Greeboz

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Lets kids make their own bad decisions for 2 million?
Or get all moral and junk and act like I'm the pope for refusing 2 million and pretending I saved lives.

I'll pick the first one
 

mykalwane

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Hell yes I would. The dumb s**t usually smoke, so getting them hooked eariler means sooner they will be out of the gene pool. Besides we have too many people as is, we need to thin the herd. To those wondering what if you were removed from the gene pool by death, to them I say deep fry me so I taste yummy to the people without food.
 

Icehearted

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I'd do it with gusto and vigorous dedication.

My moral code has gotten me stepped on, because the world really is made of sharks and sheeple. Better a shark with a heated indoor pool than a sheeple sympathizer with a lonely moral high ground.

After all, I'm just the pitchman, those aren't my cute little fingers holding mentholated cancer to their mouths.

SODAssault said:
Yes, because compassion is a luxury affordable only by those who are well-off enough to the point where they needn't care for themselves anymore.

I am most certainly not at that stage. Pay me two million a year to personally execute those one in ten, and I'm still ins
Blunt, yet very eloquently put.
 

The_Graff

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hells yeah, where do I sign? - if kids are thick enough to start smoking, even after they know the medical facts behind it then consider it a form of weeding out the terminally thick.
 

LLORTREPUS

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If it was 1 out of 10 kids doesn't get addicted and die, then i'd do it.

Also, why should you feel remorse for the death of someone you will never see or know, and who will die eventually anyway?

However, as they're children, they'll have the affects of smoking rammed so far down their throat they won't even fit a fag in their mouth, so if they decide to quit they can quite easily do so.
 

Knight Templar

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Can't I say yes then do an advertising campaign such as the anti-smoking ones done by cigarrettes corperations?

You know, reverse logic and all that?

No, then I will not trade blood for money.
 

Samurai Goomba

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I wouldn't take it. I'm fine with giving adults the freedom to hurt themselves in their favorite way, but kids and cigs are a bad combo.
 

Jaqen Hghar

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No. I need the money, but advertising for something I hate? No way.
And advertising for a product falls under marketing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVZo1Jjfshw], and I am not going there.

I don't care about the potential deaths of all those kids. They are stupid enough to start smoking. I am all for the "do what every you fucking want with your own body" thing, but when it comes to smoking... I have to breathe in that crap as well you know. And it smells awful. So this is a message to all the smokers out there. You are fucking idiots.
 

Adam

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Shit, id do it for 2 million. That's alot of money ,most of it can go towards cancer research! Less kids, less cancer, it's a win win!