What would you do for 10mil?

Noirgrim · Post by **Noirgrim** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:45 pm

If you were offered to kill someone standing right in front of you just by pressing a button, without anyone knowing or threat of being caught, would you do it for 10 million dollars? (the person is someone you don't know in a healthy state and they don't beg for their life nor give any indication they want to die)

Don't try to add in any other what-if's and don't give me the morally correct answer just because it's morally correct. Try to picture yourself in the situation and give me what choice you'd make.

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:49 pm

For 10 million bucks, I'd become your brand-new Hitler (and then execute all Beth devs because Oblivion dissapointed me).

Reminds me of 100 Bullets...

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:49 pm

Yes. Just plain yes. And im a very sickeningly moral person. Im also sickeningly poor. So sue me. With that money I can help people who will at least bother to beg a little for my entertainment.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:58 pm

None of the above, because it will likely be your mother. I'd get the person who'd offered this behind bars, where they belong.

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:07 pm

Then again, your mother could be the person you'd lock behind bars!

Noirgrim · Post by **Noirgrim** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:11 pm

Harke the Apostle wrote:None of the above, because it will likely be your mother.

Noirgrim wrote: (the person is someone you don't know in a healthy state and they don't beg for their life nor give any indication they want to die)
.

And again, it's a moral question, there aren't any other variables or options.

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:18 pm

Noirgrim wrote:
Harke the Apostle wrote:None of the above, because it will likely be your mother.

Noirgrim wrote: (the person is someone you don't know in a healthy state and they don't beg for their life nor give any indication they want to die)
.
And again, it's a moral question, there aren't any other variables or options.

I interpreted it as being someone of whom you can't tell who they are.

lb003g0676 · Post by **lb003g0676** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:26 pm

well tell me how they would die and if I ahve to see, those factors change it for me. If they were to be skinned and gutted alive (or soemthing similarly gruesome and slow|) I Just don't think I could do it.

If It's quick And the button will literally, just kill them, yep, i would. Althgoh i can picture, i dunno howm guilty I'd feel afterwards. So Maybe I wouldn't I don't think Im in the position to vote until I know moer.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:34 pm

oy, i think id do it

Orix · Post by **Orix** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:10 pm

You know... I don't think I would. Its a lot of money, and heck, you could probabaly save hundreds or thousands of lives by donating it to charity, but I wouldn't want that blood on my hands. Heck I feel guilty if I've done something hurtful way back in some stupid incident, so I wouldn't cope with taking a life.

Besides, why does everyone think that having that kind of money would make you happy? Having too much may make you feel worthless and idle. If you live a good life, with a job you enjoy, then you should be happy with what you've got and not require millions in order to feel good.

Sload · Post by **Sload** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:40 pm

This is an easy question.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:19 am

It's a lot of money, but really, I can't see myself voluntarily, cold-bloodedly provoking the death of someone who hasn't even antagonized me.

Tyrion · Post by **Tyrion** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:05 am

I need to be in the killing mood.

NEENJA · Post by **NEENJA** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:51 am

Orix wrote:You know... I don't think I would. Its a lot of money, and heck, you could probabaly save hundreds or thousands of lives by donating it to charity, but I wouldn't want that blood on my hands. Heck I feel guilty if I've done something hurtful way back in some stupid incident, so I wouldn't cope with taking a life.

Besides, why does everyone think that having that kind of money would make you happy? Having too much may make you feel worthless and idle. If you live a good life, with a job you enjoy, then you should be happy with what you've got and not require millions in order to feel good.

Same.
I could never kill somebody for money. I mean, I could probably earn that money by doing an actual job. Interesting and philisophical question, though.

--the NEENJA

Amrod · Post by **Amrod** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:04 am

I don't think the feeling of guilt and regret afterwards is worth the 10 million. I voted that i'd walk away.

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:24 am

I'd walk away. It's not because I'm a good person. I just like to do things that make me feel selfless. Of course, since I like doing it, I'm not really selfless for doing it, am I?

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:26 am

I say I would do it here, but if the actual situation came up, I wouldn't do it

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:12 am

No fucking way - I don't know about with motive, but I couldn't kill someone without motive. I wouldn't consider money to be a motive - I'd rather be poor. For the rest of your life, you'd be gutted - no amount of money and what money can buy would be able to make you feel ok with what you had done. If you were psychopathic and didn't feel compassion, then maybe you could get away with it. Otherwise if you say would do it, you haven't thought through the consequences of your actions - these may or may not include things like the effect on the person's family, and/or the effect on your own mind. I think it would crush anyone worthy of being deemed a decent human being.

Whether I could kill someone who had hurt me or someone close to me, I wouldn't know, because nothing so far in my life has come to that stage. But as for this specific question:

love & compassion > money

Thrignar Fraxix wrote:I say I would do it here, but if the actual situation came up, I wouldn't do it

In other words, no. :P

Sload · Post by **Sload** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:27 am

These numbers are far too close for my liking.

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:14 am

IT'S THESE VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES!!!! THEY DESENSITIZE OUR YOUTH AND DESTROY AMERICAN VALUES. VIDEO GAMES ARE PRODUCING KILLERS!!!!

heh, heh. I just saw an episode of law and order that contained a very obvious homage to GTA....

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:27 am

Thrignar Fraxix wrote:I say I would do it here, but if the actual situation came up, I wouldn't do it

The actual situation, thankfully, wouldn't come up. I mean, I'd feel like I would be in some sort of Stephen King novel, and the guy proposing the money would be actually Satan in disguise trying to corrupt me or something, and I imagine that either way I'd lose. No, really, what could be the motive of someone proposing random strangers 10 millions for killing other random strangers by pushing on a button? If they want the guy dead, why don't they press it themselves? Why do they even have to tell you you're going to kill someone?

I fail to see any motive that doesn't involve insanity (or the supernatural).

So, it's just a moral test. If you could gain 10 mil easily and with no risk to yourself, but at the cost of an innocent's death (you don't know the guy, so he's presumed innocent) on your conscience, would you do it? My answer is no.

Post by **Gnomey** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:31 pm

No. I can't say I wouldn't do it if he did something nasty to me, I am happily ignorant of the situation so I wouldn't know what I'd do. Anyway, I don't need money that much, I'd probably just waste it horribly. I'd walk away and avoid the 'contractor', but would I rat him out? No, I know that I to might have my life on a button, one press and I'm out. But now comes the big question: With that logic I might think that if I didn't press the button, the one who told me to would want to make sure I'm shut up, or just be very angry at me. So would I risk my own like to save another? I really don't know...

If there would be no risk of getting killed myself, I'd tell the police, and just hope they believe me...

Serric · Post by **Serric** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:27 am

Well, i'd feel guilty, and so would walk away...and then i'd think about it a bit, and probably go back and look at the button for a while...then decide against it and go home. All night itd haunt me, so i'd go back in the morning and think about it some more........

basically, the person would have died of old age before i truely decided...

(i think in the end i'd decide against it though...)

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:30 am

Given the law of universal balance, all sorts of things are equal, which in this case is interpreted like "the person-to-die is equally worthy of life and death". And...someday he'll die anyway, won't he? So why let him wait? Me says, kill'em all! Bwahahahaha...

Jannifer · Post by **Jannifer** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:00 pm

The question really isn't about the 10 mil, at heart. It's really asking "Could you live with yourself if you killed someone?". In my case, the answer is "no."

Jannifer

Lud · Post by **Lud** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:17 pm

I wouldn't do it, that's for sure. I can't even find something to spend the money I earned from my minimum wage job on, what would I do with $10mil? I can't see why money could ever be worth killing somebody. If you take the money to improve your quality of life, how would this not be outweighed by being incredibly guilty for every single waking moment of the rest of your life?

Unless you're a psychopath, you wouldn't really do it.

Colhir · Post by **Colhir** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:56 pm

yeh i'd kill em

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:35 pm

Ludovic wrote: Unless you're a psychopath, you wouldn't really do it.

I am a psychopath.

Heck I would do it even if there was no money.

Just to watch him squirm

Though the button thing wouldnt be as fun as more creative methods.

Massalinie · Post by **Massalinie** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:49 pm

10 million!?!

Hell, that's WAAY more than I get for my current assassination jobs! If I did that I could retire!

Sload · Post by **Sload** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:30 pm

*is uncomfortable*

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:32 am

A man comes up to a lady and he tells her: 'Would you sleep with me once for 10 million dollars?' She thinks about it a long time and then she says: 'I might.' Then the man asks her:'Would you sleep with me for 25 dollars?' The woman is shocked and says: 'What kind of woman do you take me for?'
He says: 'We have already established you are a whore, now we are only negotiating the price'.

This situation is akin to what we have here. If you got only a hundred would you still do it? If you have said you'd walk away would you reconsider if you could earn 100 million ?

I wouldn't trust the deal. This is just the kind of thing that I would use to determine if a person was suitable prey for a manhunt by the rich.

Balthazar · Post by **Balthazar** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:17 pm

ime gonna have to agree with harke massaline and jale here, i would do it anyway even if there was no money involved but only if I got to choose the mode of death, personly id prefer one-on-one combat much more fun, the money for me would just be a bonus.

Massalinie · Post by **Massalinie** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:57 pm

Hey I didn't say I'd do it for no money!

lb003g0676 · Post by **lb003g0676** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:15 pm

I still would ahve to walk away, it is all about teh guilt.

Abramul · Post by **Abramul** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:30 pm

There are (theoretical) circumstances under which I might do it, for instance if it prevented some catastrophe which would cost multiple lives. However, I wouldn't do it for money, even though such amounts could be used to save lives.

Post by **Gnomey** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:43 pm

I wouldn't really do this either, but here's an idea: Kill whoever told you to press the button rather than the intended victim. One less murderer on earth and you can still get the money, if he had it in the first place.

Abramul · Post by **Abramul** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:48 pm

Gnomey wrote:I wouldn't really do this either, but here's an idea: Kill whoever told you to press the button rather than the intended victim. One less murderer on earth and you can still get the money, if he had it in the first place.

iMurderersOnEarth+1-1=iMurderersOnEarth+0-0

Post by **Gnomey** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:02 pm

I don't quite get that, so this is what I think you meant, but in a simpler, Gnomish language:

Murders on earth + 1 (my murder) - 1 (the murder I didn't do) = Murders on earth + 0

Not quite right, though, as the murder I didn't do was never subtracted, it has yet to be 'tracted', so really it is just 'Murders on earth + l'. A far simpler way of putting it is:

1 Murderer - 1 Murderer + 1 Murderer (me) = 1 Murderer

So really I was wrong either way. By eliminating one murderer, I would just add another, and that other would be myself.

skittles · Post by **skittles** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:03 pm

its as easy as pressing a button.

the person was probably undergoing a life of neverending painful pubic waxings and several girlfriends who dump him for his mom.

i'd put him out of his pain.

just think...

ouch!

Balthazar · Post by **Balthazar** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:21 pm

Massalinie wrote:Hey I didn't say I'd do it for no money!

I never said you said that youd do it for no money, thats what jale said

jale wrote:Heck I would do it even if there was no money.

i said i agreed with you aswell cus i liked your point of view sorry if i made it sound like you said that..... *sigh* i gotta stop doin that it gets confusin, well it did on the first line i nearly put a few too many "you saids" on it

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