Social experiment part 2 (read part 1 first if you want to play the game)

[cowboyz]

So you press the button. For whatever reason. The story continues.


So a week goes past and you have pressed the button. About the same time of the afternoon the man dressed in black returns to your doorstep but theis time he is holding a case.
You rush out to see your prize. Opening the case there is what you can only assume to be $1,000,000 in cash stacked neatly into the case.
"There you go. Its all yours but rest assured. Someone you do not know has now died" the man says " Can I have the black box back?"
"Sure" you say handing over the black box "but can I ask what are you going to do with it now?"
"Don't worry" says the man in black. "I will continue my travels and hand the box on. Spend your money wisely though, because I will be giving the box to someone you do not know"

[<Rhino>]

Better spend up quick and move house, coz he'll be back very very soon!! :ar15:

Sounds like a movie script!

[Edbear]

We tend to miss the obvious at times...

[Trudes]

No not really, I'd just go spend the money and wait to die I guess, just like every other day.

[ArcherWC]

hide the box, hehe

[The Stranger]

Before I can answer this question accurately I would need to know what exactly you are smoking.


DMNTD is very selective.

[PirateJafa]

"Don't worry" says the man in black. "I will continue my travels and hand the box on. Spend your money wisely though, because I will be giving the box to someone you do not know"

At which point he will find himself locked in the boot of my Nissan heading towards a lime pit.

Thanks for all the fish!

[MadDuck]

Meh! Make a choice and take the consequences. Thats whats lifes about aint it?

[cowboyz]

Meh! Make a choice and take the consequences. Thats whats lifes about aint it?

The scenario is obviously a setup but I find it interesting that although people are advocates of consequence, sometimes it is tougher when the consequences are not clear.

[Edbear]

The scenario is obviously a setup but I find it interesting that although people are advocates of consequence, sometimes it is tougher when the consequences are not clear.

And interesting when they know specifically that their action will kill someone...

[Trudes]

It's all pretty hypothetical though isn't it? I mean I say I'd take the money cause yeah people die everyday, nothing new there, however in absolute reality most people would either think "What a crack pot" and either push the button just as a joke because that's what it likely is, or slam the door in the loonies face.

[awayatc]

Oh no, you mean I may die one day......?
Good to remind yourself every now and again......

Every time you go on the road you risk killing somebody you don't know, or getting killed by somebody you don't know....

[cowboyz]

Being the nature of hypothetical it is more interesting to see how people answer the problem rather than what they answer the question. Sometimes you can make up all sorts of really silly things and you will still get those who will answer it, those who will trash it and those who wont care. The question was obviously designed to be a setup but not really intended to trap people. I find it very interesting no one has said, oh. didnt think that my life would be at risk, I change my mind.

[cowboyz]

Oh no, you mean I may die one day......?
Good to remind yourself every now and again......

Every time you go on the road you risk killing somebody you don't know, or getting killed by somebody you don't know....

I dont know much - that is obvious and theres no point in pretending - but I do know that you will not get out of life alive.

[sinfull]

As i binned the box at the first question , i now have the right of taking this fools money he carelessly carried round to my home, take the slap on the wrist for white collar crime of kicking the dick off my property without his case and then denying any knowledge of it to any authorities !
Eating drinking getting fit playing on the web for 8 months at some corrective facillity on your fellas taxes (cheers), only to get out early for being so well behaved to my (how much was it i stashed again ? Goes back to game 1) Million

[Oakie]

No problem. I didn't press the button. I thought that the stranger who might die could be a baby. Easy decision then.

[Patar]

You didn't really cover your bases with the options as even if you didn't push the button, the box would still be given to someone you don't know.
So, you might as well take the money because there's no difference to you if you do or don't (aside that your pushing the button killed someone)

[Big Dog]

How about a new option?
This fucker is now threatening me and my loved ones with indiscriminate murder. Any one of them could be the next dead stranger.
My answer is now the opposite of the first question, beat the fucker to death with my bare hands.

But then you did not put in any choices that allowed for the possibility that people made a moral choice in the first poll.

[Winston001]

Nice thought experiment in ethics. I wouldn't have taken the box or pressed the button, but thats today, what I'd have done in my late teens early 20s....dunno.

If I can be soppy for a moment, the birth of my children taught me the value of a human life. It is unique. I couldn't condemn someone to death without a damned good reason.

Which incidentally is the ethical dilemma I face now. The biggest problem faced on the planet is overpopulation but even knowing that, how can any of us ignore the suffering of living starving people??

[cowboyz]

How about a new option?
This fucker is now threatening me and my loved ones with indiscriminate murder. Any one of them could be the next dead stranger.
My answer is now the opposite of the first question, beat the fucker to death with my bare hands.

But then you did not put in any choices that allowed for the possibility that people made a moral choice in the first poll.


No, because I did not think of the viewpoint that even though one did not press the button it would still be handed on so the thought of someone running round giving a box away to strangers still puts my life at risk anyway and I am out $1M. Go figure. And it was raining so water on the brain in all.
It just strenthens my original thoughts that we make decisions without really considering all the possible outcomes and wonder how many will argue, "well I didnt know" as a defence.


Nice thought experiment in ethics. I wouldn't have taken the box or pressed the button, but thats today, what I'd have done in my late teens early 20s....dunno.

If I can be soppy for a moment, the birth of my children taught me the value of a human life. It is unique. I couldn't condemn someone to death without a damned good reason.

Which incidentally is the ethical dilemma I face now. The biggest problem faced on the planet is overpopulation but even knowing that, how can any of us ignore the suffering of living starving people??

To be honest, I dont know if I would have pushed the button or not. Some days I would jump at it, others wouldnt touch it at all. Interesting your take on how your children taught you the value of human life. I think it is impossible to have kids and your viewpoint of the world not to change.

[fireball]

glad i didnt press the shiney tempting red button.....

but it was an easy choice, no ones life is worth any amount of money, just look around, you all a priceless bunch of bastards! :lol:

[imdying]

No problem. I didn't press the button. I thought that the stranger who might die could be a baby. Easy decision then.

Interesting... that's one of the things missing from Grand Theft Auto 4... no babies in strollers, no schools to rip around the fields at 12 till 1... and no cyclists to run over. Ripped off :oi-grr:

[Lias]

Given that there is currently 6.68 odd billion people in the world, the odds of you being the target of the box are basically non existant, unless its specifically weighted to target people who've used the box.

I'll happily take a million in cash for a 1 in 6.7 billion chance of dieing every week.

[awayatc]

Can I give back the money and keep the box?

Pleeeeaaaase.......?

[Winston001]

Given that there is currently 6.68 odd billion people in the world, the odds of you being the target of the box are basically non existant, unless its specifically weighted to target people who've used the box.

I'll happily take a million in cash for a 1 in 6.7 billion chance of dieing every week.

Ah yes but then Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle would come into play. You have acted upon the Universe and the Universe wil act upon you. Its nothing mystical, just quantum physics. :drool:

[Trouser]

This was in an episode of The Twilight Zone.

[awayatc]

Ah yes but then Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle would come into play. You have acted upon the Universe and the Universe wil act upon you. Its nothing mystical, just quantum physics. :drool:

That's why you keep the box, and push like the devil posessed...:drool:

[cowboyz]

This was in an episode of The Twilight Zone.

was it? it evolved out of drunken talk. would be interesting to see it as a movie/show. Someone mentioned somewhere it sounded like a script.

[Dave-]

he's going to take the box to someone else anyway.

I'd spend the money wisely making sure I met as many people as possible.

[cowboyz]

top answer.

[sinfull]

He couldnt give the box to anyone else if you throw it in the trash as per the option in game one !
Mug the fucker, steal his money when he comes with the case as per game two !
Thou you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, thou shall fear no evil, cause your the meanest mother fucken biker trash there is !
Or if your concerned with his voodoo shit, take a lock of hair when ya mug the pratt, Fly to New Orleans with his cash, hire a witch doctor to shove a needle up his asss !

[Trouser]

was it? it evolved out of drunken talk. would be interesting to see it as a movie/show. Someone mentioned somewhere it sounded like a script.

Certainly was. I can't remember if it was for a monetary reward but everything else was the same.

[Dave-]

He couldnt give the box to anyone else if you throw it in the trash as per the option in game one !
Mug the fucker, steal his money when he comes with the case as per game two !
Thou you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, thou shall fear no evil, cause your the meanest mother fucken biker trash there is !
Or if your concerned with his voodoo shit, take a lock of hair when ya mug the pratt, Fly to New Orleans with his cash, hire a witch doctor to shove a needle up his asss !

yeah i thought about that but anyone who can afford to give random strangers $1m and can organise the apparent non suspicious death of a random person in the world can surely get a new button.

or he can simply take it out of the bin.

[cowboyz]

oh the evil plan is foiled! Who would have thought something that was binned could be un-binned............

I am off to search for the twilight zone via torrents now. looks interesting.

[sinfull]

Yeah guess the plan stinks near as bad as the trash left lying round for a week, when it comes to him making a new one to give to someone i dont know ! But aint he gonna go give it to someone i dont know regardless of whether i shut the door in his face at the beginning, take the box and bin it, or push the button ?
Ok cap his arse on the second visit ! Clear concience

[Trouser]

TZ episode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)

[cowboyz]

good stuff. I found the torrent and am downloading it at the moment. Should be a interesting watch.