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Captain Blackout

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HappyHacker said:
Captain Blackout said:
So let me get this straight: A large number of you would risk suicide to possibly kill a family and get rich? This explains the atheist asshattery on this site. I feel sorry for many of you and your childhoods.
aperently you cant read becuse it excludes you
Apparently you can't spell, which doesn't change the fact that I can't read. How the hell did I transpose excludes to includes?

Ok, so I failed. Too bad, because the large prevalence of familicide tendencies on this site is a subject worth exploring.
 

HappyHacker

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Captain Blackout said:
HappyHacker said:
Captain Blackout said:
So let me get this straight: A large number of you would risk suicide to possibly kill a family and get rich? This explains the atheist asshattery on this site. I feel sorry for many of you and your childhoods.
aperently you cant read becuse it excludes you
Apparently you can't spell, which doesn't change the fact that I can't read. How the hell did I transpose excludes to includes?

Ok, so I failed. Too bad, because the large prevalence of familicide tendencies on this site is a subject worth exploring.
hehe i know i cant spell but i shure love busting balls
 

Valiance

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Define unfathomable?

I'd like to know exactly how much it is if it's UNFATHOMABLE.

Either way, I'd be taking the key and sending the nice man on his way and thanking him for the opportunity.
 
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Timewave Zero said:
Now, I do know that this is based off a Twilight Zone episode that is now stupidly being stretched into an entire film and this probably exists somehwere, but I am not in the mood to do a search under various names and things.
But mine has a little twist.

You wake up in a sterile white room sitting on a chair, not bound or anything. In front of you is a small pole, on top of which is a red button surmounted upon a metal dome.
A man sits behinds this, a briefcase beside him. He explains you cannot escape, and that you have only two options.
He says that if you press this red button, you will get an unfathomable amount of money, a brand new car and a new house. All this, if you press the red button, and kill a random person in your family, excluding you.
If you don't want to, the man will give you the key and you may walk out free. But no cash, no car, no house. Until you make a desicion, you cannot move, so you cannot attack him and take the briefcase and key. If you shoose to go, he hands you the key and disappears, so again, no attacking him.

What will you do?
I think I've seen this, It was called 'black button' and it was in some kind of film festival. And it was rubbish.
 

No One Jones

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Entirely depends on whether or not I even like my family. Many years ago I would have said hit the button. Now I care a little more about them so no I'd just leave.
 

StarStruckStrumpets

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Why did it have to be a red button? You know that I can't resist pushing big red buttons. Also...me wants money.

*Slams button 50 times*
 

Happybobby1623

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Interesting decision. If it's immediate family (as in mother father siblings) I'd choose no button and take the key. Now if we wanted to get more distant, I'd be far more inclined to take the button. If there are 5 members out of my 100 member family that I really care about, thats a 5% chance one would die. But then there's Murphey's Law to take into account as well, so knowing my luck and I chose the button, my brother would be gone. Now here is another interesting theory, but if you believe that everyone in the world came from one mother millenia ago, we're all technically "family" in that regard, and if thats the case, why the hell wouldn't you press the button, I mean, 6 billion people in the world, what are the odds you'd wind up killing the person you love?
 

Skeleon

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Take the key and get the hell out of there.
No matter who I would kill with the button, it'd be on my conscience forever.
 

Aunel

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button,
is it bad for my karma?
I don't know half of my family, so I couldn't care much.
 

Aardvark Soup

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Since I'm a normal human being, I would of course not press the button. Not even if the person being killed was chosen randomly and not someone I know. There is something very wrong with people that would actually do that in my opinion.
 

traceur_

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If I could choose which family member goes, in which case I'd choose a distant cousin I don't give a crap about. Then I'd do it. Otherwise I'd never risk killing my parents.

If it was just a random person somewhere on the other side of the world, I'd be slamming that button like an angry monkey on speed.