Would you allow someone to die for 500k?

Fenris said:
Regardless of the fact that people die every day, there will be 1 more person dead that day BECAUSE OF YOU.

Justifying it by saying "It's just another death" is essentialy justifying murder because "it doesn't really matter".
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Exactly, i see no difference between pushing this button and going out and shooting someone in the face.
 
Frenzy said:
Exactly, i see no difference between pushing this button and going out and shooting someone in the face.
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There's a third party ultimately choosing to carry out the deed. The magical forces.

I think the presence of magical forces is a barrier to reaching consensus, here in the real world, where we live.
 
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wush said:
There's a third party ultimately choosing to carry out the deed. The magical forces.
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Physically there is a difference but mentally I don't think there is a difference between getting someone to do it for you compared to doing it yourself
 
I get around said:
I'm a human rights campaigner, people are all the same to me, everyone deserves the same rights, and thats the kind of world I hope to live in. Where everyone is entitled to fair treatment.
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we spend millions on houseing, feeding and caring for killers and child abusers but allow people to starve to death in others countries...

so a british pedo child killer is worth more than say a child in nigeria (to our government at least)... which I think is wrong, at least feed the pedo to the pigs and give the pigs to the nigerian child.

anyway I think the 500k question would be better if it was a much smaller ammout but you could press the button or what ever lots of times... for those who say they would press the button would you press it for 5k... and if so how many times would you press it?
 
wush said:
There's a third party ultimately choosing to carry out the deed. The magical forces.
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It's murder by proxy.

Regardless of the person who chose the victim and carried out the murder, your actions lead to their death, leaving you ultimately responsible.
 
wush said:
There's a third party ultimately choosing to carry out the deed. The magical forces.
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But the death will only occur if you choose to push the button making you directly responsible for the death which is the same as going out and doing it yourself.

Imagine having a street gang, you send a homie out to go teach someone a lesson. Do you think the person who ordered this is totally out of the wrong?

Disclaimer: Im no gangstah, first thing that came to my mind.
 
500k? In a heartbeat.

In all reality and honesty it would be very tempting but using my "What Would Dirk Benedict Do?" attitude I would yield the appropriate correct result.
 
I couldn't take it as having the money would never outweigh having the guilt on your shoulders. You may be able to justify that it's not your fault, but not forever. It would eat at you.
 
My keyboard warrior inner me says: Hell yes I'll press it.
Realistically if it were to ACTUALLY happen, then no I wont, because I am a rational compassionate human being and not a sociopath.

I suspect the very vast majority of people here who said "Yes" would be the same, due to the Demographic of the audience to question was asked.
 
Frenzy said:
But the death will only occur if you choose to push the button making you directly responsible for the death.
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If it's a human carrying out the killing, it's ultimately their choice.

If it's a magical force carrying out the killing, it's ultimately its choice.

The killer came up with the idea, so they are not subservient to you.
 
What if the person chosen will die anyway, say a termical cancer patient with less than a month left to live and choice was either let them die peacefully, or take 500K and let them die painfully.
 
Ok if you want to take that route.
Does the magical force have a mind of its own ? :)
If i was a magical force with such power id be in the girls changing rooms... ^^
 
wush said:
If it's a human carrying out the killing, it's ultimately their choice.

If it's a magical force carrying out the killing, it's ultimately its choice.

The killer came up with the idea, so they are not subservient to you.
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It would have to me a electronic / mechanical action triggered by the pressing of the button say the button set of a bomb.. they if you press the button you did kill the person...
 
I think not. Its not like 500k is a life altering amount of money.

However, I would imagine a utilitarian point of view where the 500k could be sent straight to African charities to provide clean water ro such like and that would be guaranteed to save more people than 1.
 
There was a thread recently on here discussing what you would do with £1 million, i think it came to the conclusion you couldnt even retire untill you hit a very late stage in your life. So yeah 500k is a drop in the ocean.
 
No I wouldn't, I'm not all that obsessed by money and I think there's value to human life that you can't put a price tag on. I can see why some people would, loads of people's lifes are completely run by money and £500k is a damn lot of it.
 
alexhull24 said:
I couldn't take it as having the money would never outweigh having the guilt on your shoulders. You may be able to justify that it's not your fault, but not forever. It would eat at you.
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Pretty soon you would be a drug taking alcoholic and thene throw yourself off a cliff. At least I would.
 
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