From the film of the same name.
A box is mysteriously delivered to you, on top is a button, you have 24 hours posession before it moves to someone else.
If you press the button it provides 1 million dollars, or equivalent in your local currency...
but...
At the same time someone you dont know dies from its effects.
No, its just like murdering someone for a million dollar contract.
Id get a blister from the amount of times Id be pressing that button.
Id press the bugger
Quote from: SamNo, its just like murdering someone for a million dollar contract.
you might get lucky.. it could be someone with no arms, no legs, deaf, dumb & blind
What happens to the box once the button is pressed? Does it continue on to other people, or end there?
Is there guarantee of remaining anonymous if you press the button?
If the answers are no it stops with you and yes it is anonymous I would. If it continues on I might have to think about it. I mean, if the box stops once its pressed, someones going to press it sooner or later, might as well take the responsibility and press the button and use the money for good causes... ><
This is where I find out its some kind of test to track down people with ambiguous morals and potential murderers or something...
you can argue all you want about "using it for good causes" all you want. In the end tho its all about greed.
Quote from: Eddyou can argue all you want about "using it for good causes" all you want. In the end tho its all about greed.
press the button, get the £million & blow, cos you know the next person will press it & sooner or later someones button press is your death.
More profitable than killing someone when you eat a big mac or a kitkat or whatever else the treehuggers would have you believe. Ultimate expression of capitalism? Given the choice the market would do the right thing?! or not perhaps!
Easy one for me, no I wouldnt
As much as id love a million quid I could never live with that fact that someone died beacuse of me and my greed for money.
:stupid:
Quote from: Eddyou can argue all you want about "using it for good causes" all you want. In the end tho its all about greed.
How so?
If in the instance that the box is a one time affair and once its been done, it ceases to operate, someone WILL press it at some point. Its an unknown risk as to what they will do with the money. But you know what you will do with the money. Theres nothing greedy about pressing the button and giving all £1mil to charity.
Im not saying Id do the above, Id do something slightly different, but Id press the button, knowing full well that most people wouldnt hesitate.
Damn right Id press it. Who cares? £1M is £1M. Me and my family come first.
... and if I let someone else press it... it could be me. :drama:
yeah.... Id push it
1m aint enough. you need at least two. 1 to set your finances up for life and 1 to pay for the house, villa, porsches and boats.
and then the bitches will follow.
Matt
I like to think Id be moral enough to not press it, but then that is quite a fair amount of money.
In truth Id end up stuck in something of an existential quandary with the thought of me ending up dying because someone else pushes the button stopping me from doing it.
I would then destroy the box to prevent my head from exploding.
Edit : Ahh right, so the box is finished and can never be used again once the button is pushed? In that case Id push it fairly quickly, nothing to do with the money but the thought that a few days/weeks/months down the line someone else could be pushing it and snuffing me out.
to be fair.... with 6 billion people on earth (or summit like that) theres not much chance that youll be the one killed if someone else pushes it ;)
Quote from: knightyto be fair.... with 6 billion people on earth (or summit like that) theres not much chance that youll be the one killed if someone else pushes it ;)
Serious needs to explain a bit more.
Im assuming that only people who have received the box in the past and then not pressed the button are eligible for the chop.
it has the feel of a "deal with the devil" story, whichever way you go is going to backfire.
Id push the button because:
1) Id get a million quid
2) Yeah, a million quid!
3) Im saving someone else from the moral dilema
4) The person who dies would die eventually anyway so its not that bad.
5) Aston Martin DB9 and a house in the country!
yes serious didnt really explain the particulars
i still stand by my decision to push the button tho, one million is one million, and people have been killed for far far less
and whose to say the person that dies isnt a massive scumbag? There are too many unknown unknowns in this ;)
I gave as many details as supplied. I would assume that.
The box cant be destroyed, it simply moves on, is recreated somehow.
There is no backlog of data kept, it wont tell anyone if you have pressed the button.
There was no statement of the box ending if the button was pressed, so assume it just goes to the next person. With 6 billion people on the planet I would assume its been to quite a few before it reaches you and at least one has pushed the button previously.
Selection of recipient and target is entirely random, but not from people you know, so no friends, aquaintances, people you have seen on TV, heard on radio, etc. You might be the randomly selected target when someone else pushes the button, although you only have a 365 in 6 billion plus chance of dying from this in a year. If you pressed the button or not will not have any effect on selection.
The film version is doing the rounds now, although its not recieved good reviews. That in turn comes from an episode of The Twilight Zone, a storyline called Button, Button, second synopsis in the link below.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734727/synopsis
In that case, if it resets, Id say the box/button would be the fastest growing pandemic to affect the world.
I mean, a good chunk of the global population would be pressing the button only a few seconds after being told "If you press the button you will get £1million..."
At least itd end the overpopulation crisis, in the process getting rid of capitalism (in the end itd be a small group of people left that know each other and are all Millionaires ><)
Quote from: zpyderIn that case, if it resets, Id say the box/button would be the fastest growing pandemic to affect the world.
I mean, a good chunk of the global population would be pressing the button only a few seconds after being told "If you press the button you will get £1million..."
At least itd end the overpopulation crisis, in the process getting rid of capitalism (in the end itd be a small group of people left that know each other and are all Millionaires ><)
extrapolating from that assumption, those left alive are going to have a major inflation problem quite quickly
The whole idea is pretty stupid. Yeah why not, Id tap it like a woodpecker.
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indeed, probably channeled through the main deflector dish, but whatever you do dont forget to re-route power from all non-essential systems and be ready to jettison the warp core.
And dont worry, when it all goes wrong and the Chief Engineer and hyper-intelligent android cant fix the problem the gawky teenage Ensign will find a solution.