Poll: Your own life - Or ten strangers lifes?

[Bon_Clay]

I didn't ask to be put in this situation, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let myself die because of some crazy person's schemes. Their deaths are on the person who made this set up in my eyes. Nothing has meaning to me if I'm not alive to experience or observe it anyway, so trying to be the hero is pointless if I'm dead.

 

[DanielBrown]

I can't say I'm happy with my life, but if I was in that situation I'd kill the strangers. Were it family, however, I'd off myself.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

Let´s play the imaginary game.

Let´s imagine you´ve been put in a room with a big glass panel separating you from ten strangers. You can see them through the glass. They look like your average middle-aged men. There is a speaker allowing you to hear what they say.


Let´s say that there were two buttons in this room.
One button results in the room the strangers are in getting lit on fire. Complete with them screaming in agony and you hearing every single second of it. But you come out okay. Noone will ever know or believe you if you tell them.

The other button will administer a lethal injection of let´s say...poison into your body. You won´t feel a thing, but you will die. The strangers however, will live on.

So. What matters most to you?

Me? Screw them, my own life is more important! Even though i´d feel like crap.

Do they have children or anything like that? Also I think you should take a look at The Milgram Experiment it is a lot like this but with heavier focus on different aspects.

I would definitely do it, but I would feel like a shit taco being digested by Marlon Brando.

 

[TWRule]

I am free of morality. I would not hesitate to kill them. it is the most basic instinct: survival. Everything else is idealistic wishy-washy feelings that do not matter in any way whatsoever. Now, if the number of people on the other side was larger, say 10.000 then I would certainly off myself. The lives of this many deserves a sacrifice, even if the sacrifice is the lives of innocent children or pregnant women or babies or whatever.

Really? People would rather kill ten strangers and live with the guilt for the rest of their lives?

Huh.

I honestly cannot see what is so wrong with that. This is not internet speech, I am being sincere here.

You differentiated between killing 10 people versus killing 10,000 - so at some point there is a principle (however arbitrary) you are employing here. I wouldn't be so quick to condemn the "idealistic wishy washy" responses. They don't matter by what standard? Your personal whims?

 

[Solid Reece]

Kill them and enjoy the show. They were going to die anyway.

 

[Sovereignty]

I don't know. It'd depend on their ethnicity.......






Joke! I joke.


Seriously though probably myself. Though I'd be far more inclined to pick myself if they were women. And I would most definitely have to have a speech prior.

 

[Dr_Feelgood]

I would kill them and watch with enjoyment wondering where the popcorn is. I mean 10 people I don't know and on top of that all of them are men? Well hell fine with me..I'll just picture them as my ex's....

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Given that I wouldn't be able to live with myself after condemning 10 innocents to a horrible agonising death just to save my own worthless life (and anyone who would kill 10 innocents for otheir own benefit IS worthless) I'd freely kill myself to spare the other 10. And I have nothing but contempt for the currently 118 people who would kill them without a second thought. You're the ones who don't deserve to live.

 

[Yan007]

I would press both buttons at the same time for the lulz!

Now what Jigsaw?

 

[Fragged_Templar]

Jamieson 90 and tellmeimaninja pretty much sum up how I feel about this.

Kill the strangers and I would not feel bad either, The human will to survive is very very strong. There will be people here who take the moral highground and say what I just said was terrible.

The fact is this unless you have ever had a near death experience which I have, then you don't know how strong the will to survive is, you will literally do anything. Sure in your cosy warm house safely behind yuor computer you might like to think you would do the 'good thing' but when the adrenaline is pumping through your veins you will do anything to survive.

They will be honoured for their sacrifices with a memorial when I am ruler of the world.

EDIT: Let's see how many "selfless" liars and/or naive people we have.

 

[Mad World]

I'd choose to kill myself. It would be hard, but it would be the right thing to do. Additionally, my death wouldn't be in agony, and I'm just one person (as opposed to ten).

Some people may not believe me, but I guess that I can't really blame them.

 

[Kefo]

Given that I wouldn't be able to live with myself after condemning 10 innocents to a horrible agonising death just to save my own worthless life (and anyone who would kill 10 innocents for otheir own benefit IS worthless) I'd freely kill myself to spare the other 10. And I have nothing but contempt for the currently 118 people who would kill them without a second thought. You're the ones who don't deserve to live.

That seems rather selfish of you, now those 10 people have to live with the guilt that they had to watch you die in order for them to live

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Given that I wouldn't be able to live with myself after condemning 10 innocents to a horrible agonising death just to save my own worthless life (and anyone who would kill 10 innocents for otheir own benefit IS worthless) I'd freely kill myself to spare the other 10. And I have nothing but contempt for the currently 118 people who would kill them without a second thought. You're the ones who don't deserve to live.

That seems rather selfish of you, now those 10 people have to live with the guilt that they had to watch you die in order for them to live

You're right, that was horribly cruel of me, I should have killed them all to save them all from the crushing agonies of guilt.

Oh wait. No I shouldn't have. That's fucking retarded beyond belief.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Secret answer 3. Don't press either button and walk out.

For real though, I couldn't live with myself knowing ten people unwillingly died for me. I have no right to assume my life means more than their's.

 

[The Cheezy One]

I'm not valuable enough to be worth ten other people. I haven't even done enough with my life to be worth one other person!

 

[robodukky]

Although I am awesome and worth the lives of about 100 strangers, I would still sacrifice myself for the greater good...

...On the condition that they all pay for the most expensive possible funeral

 

[TehCookie]

Seeing how 90% of humanity are assholes I might feel bad killing that one good guy, but I would still kill them. If they were in my position I wouldn't expect them to do any different, I guess that puts me in that 90%.

 

[Mr.Numbers]

Ok 1) If there were any chance to wait it out till the cops arrived, do that.

2) Since this is a hypothetical, those ten strangers...I couldn't justify the agony of burning to death for ten people over my painless execution

3) The exception to the above is if the people who would die were criminals or prisoners.

No, I'm neither naive or a liar...I'm just extremely empathetic. If I had to kill 10 people in cold blood for my own life outside of a war scenario, I could never live with myself.

3) Is because these people already had their chance at life and blew it. 2 year sentencers for petty crimes, yeah sure, still myself. It has to be life sentences or equivalent for me to be able to save myself by these means...

Though I think i'd still save myself if they're average sentence was 15 years...


I dunno, there are so many thoughts rushing through my head here.

*EDIT*

Given that I wouldn't be able to live with myself after condemning 10 innocents to a horrible agonising death just to save my own worthless life (and anyone who would kill 10 innocents for otheir own benefit IS worthless) I'd freely kill myself to spare the other 10. And I have nothing but contempt for the currently 118 people who would kill them without a second thought. You're the ones who don't deserve to live.

I totally agree with this, up till the last sentence.
Condemning them to death puts you on their level, I know this seems like an unfair call, but you rationalized it in the exact same way they rationalized killing others to save themselves.

 

[Kefo]

Given that I wouldn't be able to live with myself after condemning 10 innocents to a horrible agonising death just to save my own worthless life (and anyone who would kill 10 innocents for otheir own benefit IS worthless) I'd freely kill myself to spare the other 10. And I have nothing but contempt for the currently 118 people who would kill them without a second thought. You're the ones who don't deserve to live.

That seems rather selfish of you, now those 10 people have to live with the guilt that they had to watch you die in order for them to live

You're right, that was horribly cruel of me, I should have killed them all to save them all from the crushing agonies of guilt.

Oh wait. No I shouldn't have. That's fucking retarded beyond belief.

Someone seems cranky lol

 

[Taddy]

Kill myself, 10 life's > My own 1 life. Besides, unless i know those people would go on to commit great crimes like mass murder, rape etc I'd feel like crap for killing them.