Would you allow someone to die for 500k?
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so you wouldn't hold it against someone who pressed the button and your daughter died because of it, were you to then find out about it. You'd simply say 'fair play'.....right?
because in pushing the button you're going to be killing someone elses son/daughter.
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This question has been asked elsewhere in relation to this movie.
The answers were similarily amusing. Welcome to the internet.
Also, the solution to your problem would be to just not have any children. Job done.
Im shocked you are worried about being killed platinum87, being a fish-finger eating superhero surely exempts you from such a fate?
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Your so cool. Acting all "pahhh I have no conscience, check how cold I am people".
Depends on the human, some are cheap and aren't worth the space they take up.
I notice you have a ps3. You could have used that money to provide water for 10 people, those 10 people are most likely dead. I hope you can sleep at night!
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Yes because donating to charity and potentially mudering someone are quite similar.
I'm guessing you said yes earlier.
Whats the difference.. i mean really? Killing someone by not acting ( in my example providing someone with water ) or killing someone by pressing a button.
You will try to justify to to your self that its not the same, most likely to make you feel better and give you the false sense of morals but like everything morals have limits and people only look out for them selves and the people closest to them as its human nature. We cant care about every random person or we would go nuts. Hence the reason i could press the button. And i accept this where you will say " but its not the same" But Someone is going to die either by your actions or lack of actions.
Its like a Husband raping a child while the mother watches and does nothing.
You will try to justify to to your self that its not the same, most likely to make you feel better and give you the false sense of morals but like everything morals have limits and people only look out for them selves and the people closest to them as its human nature. We cant care about every random person or we would go nuts. Hence the reason i could press the button. And i accept this where you will say " but its not the same" But Someone is going to die either by your actions or lack of actions.
Its like a Husband raping a child while the mother watches and does nothing.
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Well isnt the question now.....
Would you press a button for £500,000 if it only killed all the people that had said they would press it earlier in this thread? (As they obviously arent very nice people willingly to choose to let someone die!)
Would you press a button for £500,000 if it only killed all the people that had said they would press it earlier in this thread? (As they obviously arent very nice people willingly to choose to let someone die!)
If that was the case we would all be living like 3rd worlders, "can't buy that house, all that money woud save X amount of people in 3rd world"...."Can't buy that car, you could save X amount of people instead"....."can't have a PC or that game, you could save X amount of people with that money"
If you live your life by that then you'll never have any fun from the money you earn, so yes it's very different.
Not doing anything is not your failing, it's your choice, where as taking action and doing something wrong via taking action is your responsibility, it's two very different things, we may have the ability to save people in poor countries but it's certainly not a responsibility too.
Yes but like you say we decide not to help these people as we want to better ourselves. Our well being / happiness goes before people in the 3rd world.We choose that happiness and our possessions come before our morals and that is the price we have decided to pay. The poor people suffer and die until we are at a stage in our life we consider comfortable and then usually people will give more to charity as it doesn't effect there lifestyle. What i'm saying is pushing the button is the same but just a short cut to what inevitably will happen , people will die that you could have saved so you could live a happy life with all the luxuries just this time you need to press a button.
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you could give half of the money to some charity that will then use it to save 10 poeple in africa??? (or do the ssaving your self, take a doctor, meds and food to africa)
That way you have saved 10 (depending on what the money is spent on) at the cost of 1 so you should feel very happy?