"Push this button for $100,000!" Edited
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I have asthma but still would do it. After all, getting the shit shocked out of you for $50 can't be that bad of a deal.
Besides, a button like that would obviously be a scientific study aide, so I'll also help out the scientific community.
Besides, a button like that would obviously be a scientific study aide, so I'll also help out the scientific community.
1) I come back with rubber gloves.
If that doesn't work,
2) I hide nearby and watch other people press it. If they get money and get shocked, I take it from their writhing bodies. If they get money and DON'T get shocked, I keep watching and figure out the pattern.
And you want my "Ok, fine, I shouldn't be thinking so hard about trying beat the system" answer, no, I would not press it.
If that doesn't work,
2) I hide nearby and watch other people press it. If they get money and get shocked, I take it from their writhing bodies. If they get money and DON'T get shocked, I keep watching and figure out the pattern.
And you want my "Ok, fine, I shouldn't be thinking so hard about trying beat the system" answer, no, I would not press it.
As I said, think of it as a magic button, there's no way around any possible shock. Saying that you should truly put yourself into the situation was to try to help prevent people from saying "yeah, I could totally do that" without really thinking of the pain.Sober Thal said:
I convince other people to press it and see what happens to them. Then, based on their experiences, I try to recognize the probability of the various results (assuming it can have different results) and make my decisions based on that data. I really don't have enough information to make a decision.
I asked a question with the same idea in mind a while back and got pretty much the same results, there will always be people who think they're clever and have "beaten the system" my advice, dont let it bother you and scour through for the ones who get into the spirit of the question. It pissed me off to no end through truth be told.Firoth said:
OT: Yeah i'd press it, a bunch of times. Aslong as i received no perminant damage i'd take a moment of intense pain for £50
£100,000? No way.
£100,000,000? I'd kick that button in the fucking face.
Worst case scenario: I get £50.
£100,000,000? I'd kick that button in the fucking face.
Worst case scenario: I get £50.
Hell, I'm a bit of a gambler, tho I'm not sure about an hour of agony. I've had an abcess under a wisdom tooth, and I genuinely think I started to lose my mind after about half an hour of that on full power. I've never broken a leg or anything, but that just blocked out everything, there was nothing in my life but the pain.
I'd probably risk 30 seconds of pain for a maybe $50. You make it sound like the worst pain ever however, and I think that for an hour would shatter my sanity. I've electrocuted myself at home, and it hurt, but it wasn't on a par with my tooth abcess.
Maybe shoulda gone for 'press the button and a wizard appears and casts lightning inside your torso for an hour', no amount of lobbing rocks or rubber pants are going to help, tho rubber pants might protect the floor from staining.
I'd probably risk 30 seconds of pain for a maybe $50. You make it sound like the worst pain ever however, and I think that for an hour would shatter my sanity. I've electrocuted myself at home, and it hurt, but it wasn't on a par with my tooth abcess.
Maybe shoulda gone for 'press the button and a wizard appears and casts lightning inside your torso for an hour', no amount of lobbing rocks or rubber pants are going to help, tho rubber pants might protect the floor from staining.
Hmmm... I'd trick others into doing it for me. Either that, or train a dog to do it. We can pay for medical treatment with the money Lassie makes.
There's a ton of practical answers that people have already mentioned, but under the pretense that I can't push it carefully with other objects, then no. NO WAY I'd push that button.
The frist thing I thought of is why would I watch someone rolling on the floor in pain for an hour? Seriously what kind of sick freak just stares at a person in pain for a whole hour doing nothing, never mind deciding to do what he did to be in that pain. This scenario is all kinds of dumb.
Yeah, sure, what's to say my experience will be the same as his? All I know is the button shocked one person. I'll go for that 100 large, thank you very much.
Hell yes, I'd smack the crap outt'a that button. $50 for an hour's work? It's not like its emotional trauma like from working in retail, it'll heal. Heck, I'd get right back up and push it again after the hour was up, like some kind of zappy Skinner Box.
Hhmm... So beating the system is out of the question.
I wouldn't press it, but I'd still probably smash it somehow. That'll teach that button what happens when you think you can beat me! I don't take very kindly to losing. If I'm not going to get my money painlessly, no one else is going to get anything, either!
I wouldn't press it, but I'd still probably smash it somehow. That'll teach that button what happens when you think you can beat me! I don't take very kindly to losing. If I'm not going to get my money painlessly, no one else is going to get anything, either!
