Big Red Button

Van Hellseek · 30 Mar 2012 at 23:42

If you had a button in your home(s) since the age of 20 (in the style of an industrial emergency stop button) which would, when pushed*, instantly end your life... Would you still be alive today?

Would you really have been able to resist the temptation to push it through the rough (and drunken) times?

*Assuming it will end your life instantly and painlessly, and that it was somehow DNA coded so that you were the only person who could push it.

Edit: I mean something you clearly KNEW would end your life instantly and painlessly. (Not just some random mystery button).

J-FRO · 30 Mar 2012 at 23:45

I'd be in the dead camp no doubt. Not through drinking, but general clumsiness when I'm in a rush in the morning.

R.C.Anderson · 30 Mar 2012 at 23:48

Yup, would be dead by now...

Although, do we know that's what the button does, or is it just a random big red button?
If the latter, then 100% sure I would be dead by now, as I would have been curious, the former, like 90% sure, as I probably wouldn't believe it, so would wonder what it actually did

Curiosity is a bitch

aaron · 30 Mar 2012 at 23:51

Definately, even if I knew. Mainly just through curiosity/drunken times.

Van Hellseek · 30 Mar 2012 at 23:53

J-FRO said:
I'd be in the dead camp no doubt. Not through drinking, but general clumsiness when I'm in a rush in the morning.

Lets assume there was a safety cover

Pestilence · 30 Mar 2012 at 23:54

I'd have pushed it long ago.

Ceryndrion · 30 Mar 2012 at 23:56

Yeap, I'd be annoying them angel types.. doubly so if it read "Do not push this button"..

craarc · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:00

lolz definatly dead by now either an ex GF would have hit it for me or something would have done me in in the last 50 years probably in a fit of drunken rage at a horde undead rogue ganking me in bg`s

ennogs · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:04

I would push the button

robgmun · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:04

I'd be very much alive, and probably bury the button deep underground in the back garden

haaammit · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:04

Not me - I'd probably be dead as dog ****.

The only thing that stopped me doing it was how messy it would be for my family - I wanted to do it properly, so it was either a very tall building or a train :/

I managed to get through it though.

Rids · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:07

Think during a deep deep low I'd have pushed it.

R.C.Anderson · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:09

robgmun said:
I'd be very much alive, and probably bury the button deep underground in the back garden

But once buried, you would run the risk of it getting compressed & pressed...

Tummy · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:09

What about you Seek?

Things change I've changed · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:16

99% sure I would have pressed it, glad something like that doesn't exist tbh, even the fact that guns are pretty hard to come by in this country is a bonus as it would be too temping during a down period.

Heliospherez · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:28

No - it would have been covered over in my early teens.

And there's no way I would have gone near it... Life / living is too important to me.... as is the effect it would have had on all my family and people who know me.

And I can't really think of any time I was sad / crazy / depressed enough to contemplate ending such a beautiful thing as human existance - or stopping my consciousness - with something as pathetic as a big red plastic button

robgmun · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:31

R.C.Anderson said:
But once buried, you would run the risk of it getting compressed & pressed...

No because it would incased in a steel box, sealed

Van Hellseek · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:32

Heliospherez said:
No - it would have been covered over in my early teens.

It wouldn't have been there until you were 20. Read the OP.

Derp.

Castiel · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:37

You don't need a Big Red Button to kill yourself.

Heliospherez · 31 Mar 2012 at 00:38

It makes no difference. Teens or 20.

Why 20 anyway ?

What you have to remember is..... if we all did have a magic red button, the human race would die out pretty quickly..... but the last few generations would be all the happy people - who don't really give a monkeys and have never really had negative thoughts or feelings about ending it all

So it might be a lot of fun for the last few years...