The box.
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Thatt was a pretty good video. I liked part where he gives him the brief case when it is worthless after what happenedmechanixis said:
a new film? like one you go pay to see? cause this has been done before. infact theres a good one on youtube.
woah that's uh....................woahpimppeter2 said:
I hope you add canadian to the end of that word NO NO NO racism is bad and not to be practiced!!! sorry sorry
yeah I'd press it
I can drown any sadness in drugs
I'm to broke to go to moviesIdealistCommi said:
care to spoil it in a spoiler?
Press it due to the fact that someone is always dying and i really need that 1 mil so I could spend the rest of my life posting on the escapist.
People I don't know die every day--if I can get paid for it, so much the better.
Sorry if I sound callous, but that's the truth.
Sorry if I sound callous, but that's the truth.
Would you push a button and kill 140,000 people for a days pay?
Someone did once. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki]
But at least there you could argue that there was a moral reason for doing it. In the currently discussed case, however, it seems to me that pushing that button makes you a bad person pretty much instantly. Can you argue that there is any moral reason for pushing the button?
Hint: Wanting a million dollars is not a moral reason.
More useful hint: While you can say that you could use that money to save lives, here is a case where you don't HAVE to end a life, and the results of your monetary endowments are not clear. Certain death for potential life is not really a good choice. Especially if the money fails to be enough for whatever. Now what? Press the button again? That's one more and another million. How many times will you have to press it before the money achieves its goal?
Someone did once. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki]
But at least there you could argue that there was a moral reason for doing it. In the currently discussed case, however, it seems to me that pushing that button makes you a bad person pretty much instantly. Can you argue that there is any moral reason for pushing the button?
Hint: Wanting a million dollars is not a moral reason.
More useful hint: While you can say that you could use that money to save lives, here is a case where you don't HAVE to end a life, and the results of your monetary endowments are not clear. Certain death for potential life is not really a good choice. Especially if the money fails to be enough for whatever. Now what? Press the button again? That's one more and another million. How many times will you have to press it before the money achieves its goal?
The whole moral dilemma behind the box isn't all that complicated:
Do you, or do you not, think the life of a random stranger is worth more than 1 million dollars to you?
Me, I wouldn't push that button for any amount of money. I guess I'm just a lousy capitalist.
I wonder if the same guy who did the Box also did the one involving letting your wife sleep with another man for a million dollars [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecent_proposal]. Not as far as I can tell, but it's same stupid premise: do you allow money to compromise a supposedly sacred value or not?
Do you, or do you not, think the life of a random stranger is worth more than 1 million dollars to you?
Me, I wouldn't push that button for any amount of money. I guess I'm just a lousy capitalist.
I wonder if the same guy who did the Box also did the one involving letting your wife sleep with another man for a million dollars [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecent_proposal]. Not as far as I can tell, but it's same stupid premise: do you allow money to compromise a supposedly sacred value or not?
Like I have said I have not seen the film but I don't think the box kills people, I don't think the button is a detonator for a small explosive in a random persons neck.
The only reason somebody would press the button is for a large amount of cash (or you were a massive misanthrope), it's not a moral choice, in the sense that your getting a reward. It's a greed thing.
There are some morals to it, do you think a strangers life is worth $1 million?
It is more of a carrot and a stick thing, the carrot is $1 million the stick is the death of somebody you don't know.coldfrog said:
The only reason somebody would press the button is for a large amount of cash (or you were a massive misanthrope), it's not a moral choice, in the sense that your getting a reward. It's a greed thing.
There are some morals to it, do you think a strangers life is worth $1 million?
I'd hit that. I'd hit it like I mean it, proper spamfest. And I would keep the box with me forever/until I die of old age, so that I could have an infinite supply of money =D
I'm actually gonna quote Stalin on this one: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million men is a statistic". And it's not like I know the ones that die.
I'm actually gonna quote Stalin on this one: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million men is a statistic". And it's not like I know the ones that die.
Here's how I see it. Say you push the button and someone dies. That person goes to the afterlife and discovers why they died. Now if I was that person who died I would be abosolutely furious that I died purely because someone wanted money. Also the family would be devastated and if they found out, they'd probally kill you, or place charges on you. Now I know it's near impossible to find out who killed them but you would always know.
I wouldn't press the button because I wouldn't wanna be an asshole, even if you offerd me money.
I wouldn't press the button because I wouldn't wanna be an asshole, even if you offerd me money.