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

[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!

[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

[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.

[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.

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

[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.