Another moral question - hypothetical

regulus · 25 May 2013 at 08:24

Yes, in an instant. Also everyone obese. I mean, there might be some decent people in there but they have to go too

4T5 · 25 May 2013 at 08:36

RichIbizaSport said:
If

If my Auntie had Testicles she would be my Uncle.

eatcustard · 25 May 2013 at 08:39

Aids and smokers, where is that button?

Jono8 · 25 May 2013 at 08:47

Only if i had proof that heaven was real.

Theophany · 25 May 2013 at 09:53

peterwalkley said:
What gives you the right to choose who lives or dies.

Access to the button that gives you that power.

Trifid · 25 May 2013 at 10:00

Can I have a button that completely purifies the human race?

[FnG]magnolia · 25 May 2013 at 10:08

Feef said:
I enjoyed this.

On topic: No.

BEES !?

robgmun · 25 May 2013 at 10:12

RichIbizaSport said:
If a button existed which could instantly kill everyone on the planet carrying the HIV virus, eradicating it entirely, would you press it? This could well include yourself or your family.

According to the most recent estimates from the WHO and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 34 million people around the world had HIV in 2010. This figure includes 16.8 million women and 3.4 million children under age 15.

1.7 million die a year from AIDS-related illnesses in 2011.

http://www.who.int/gho/hiv/en/

Yes I would

[FnG]magnolia · 25 May 2013 at 10:17

robgmun said:
Yes I would

But not Thai girls, right?

Freefaller · 25 May 2013 at 10:27

Castiel said:
No. People live quite safely with HIV and a few precautions means minimal risk to others.

Better to educate them than kill them.

Not much of a moral dilemma tbh.

Absolutely.

Pushing a button causing genocide? In reality I doubt many people would push that button, other than postulating on an internet forum.

However, if people genuinely would push that button with no regard to the millions of people they would kill - I really really worry for the human race.

Besides, so what? IT would remove HIV - but something else would come along. What about people with the dormant gene? Do they count?

I understand the "point" you're trying to make - but there is no moral dilemma at all. You just wouldn't push the button.

Nothing gives me or anyone the right to the judge, jury and executioner. Besides, I'm so vehemently against death penalties - I could never support this.

lurkio · 25 May 2013 at 10:31

kwerk said:
I would rather have a button that kills everyone that's ever been in a harlem shake video.

+1

Theophany · 25 May 2013 at 11:00

[FnG]magnolia;24340358 said:
But not Thai girls, right?

That reminds me of a story my boss once told a group of us at a work do, the timing of which was rather odd as we were all sharing funny stories and he decided it was an appropriate time to put a downer on us all with the following zinger.

Apparently an acquaintance of his who has one of more screws not quite tightly in place went out to Thailand for one of those holidays. One evening, whilst exploring the inner workings of a local lady of the night, he was apparently "properly going for it" when she turned around to face him - mid thrust into her other place - to inform him that "I may be a prostitute, but I'm still a human being."

Rather shocked by this depressing anecdote of human depravity, I proceeded to take a rather large gulp of wine and extricate myself from the tsunami of awkwardness by going for a cigarette and miserably failing to chat up a Croatian lady who was rather intoxicated.

[FnG]magnolia · 25 May 2013 at 11:22

Is there a lesson to be learned here? This is important.

James J · 25 May 2013 at 11:30

Efour said:
KILL ALL THE GAYS

send them back

no i wouldn't because we will cure it in the next 20 years anyway. I would press it to randomly kill millions of people though cos im not right in the head, bro.

Next 20 years? No chance. The virus is near perfection from a genetic point of view as it has genes across all three reading frames, something that was thought to be impossible before HIV was discovered and its genetic material was unraveled. You also don't have 1 single type of HIV in your body if you are infected, as they mutate so quickly, they render medical treatments useless. The retrovirals we invented now also have a poor prognostic result, as HIV can also go dormant whilst the viral load is lowered by medication to then resurface again as a completely different phenotype via mutation.

We'll cure most cancers before we stop HIV.

Theophany · 25 May 2013 at 11:48

[FnG]magnolia;24340578 said:
Is there a lesson to be learned here? This is important.

I think all I managed to take away from it was to drink less with colleagues, but I'm rather clutching at straws here.

e: actually, possibly better lesson to learn here is that Croatian ladies aren't as easy to chat up as the Internet would have me believe. Though the wine on my breath may not have been as irresistible as I'd thought.

robgmun · 25 May 2013 at 12:04

[FnG]magnolia;24340358 said:
But not Thai girls, right?

Why not Thai girls?

It'll also be funny to see which celebrates drop dead. Some might not even know themselves they're infected!

Freefaller · 25 May 2013 at 12:28

Yeah it's really funny seeing random people we don't really know die. :/ Seriously, I know this thread is a bit of a joke and not serious, but sometimes I do wonder what people think when they type stuff...

Castiel · 25 May 2013 at 12:37

Freefaller said:
Yeah it's really funny seeing random people we don't really know die. :/ Seriously, I know this thread is a bit of a joke and not serious, but sometimes I do wonder what people think when they type stuff...

They don't think, and that is the problem.

UncleRuckus · 25 May 2013 at 12:37

[FnG]magnolia;24340332 said:
BEES !?

AGD · 25 May 2013 at 12:53

Let me think...

No.