For $100 Billion USD, wouuld you....

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Kalvin00

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anyone who denies is fvcking talking out their ass.

if you laid $1 MILLION dollars in front of somebody, they would do just about anything you wanted to have that money.
 

Lurknomore

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Originally posted by: JohnCU
if anyone says no they are a damn liar.

^The truth.
But then, if you up the ante and make this person a young, blond, 10yr. old girl, would it make any difference?
Does the race, sex, and socio-economic status of this person matter?
 

prontospyder

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Oct 9, 1999
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nope.
and if I did kill the person, who is going to say I won't commit more atrocities with all that money in hand?
 

Anubis

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Aug 31, 2001
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tbqhwy.com
id kill someone that is very important for far less then 100 billion

hell for 1 billion id off just about anyone
 

chambersc

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Originally posted by: Lurknomore
Originally posted by: JohnCU
if anyone says no they are a damn liar.

^The truth.
But then, if you up the ante and make this person a young, blond, 10yr. old girl, would it make any difference?
Does the race, sex, and socio-economic status of this person matter?

not to me. the means justify the ends.
 

Madwand1

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Jan 23, 2006
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Not one iota of whatever suffering you could reduce using the money you gained from this crime would mitigate the crime itself, because it's money you didn't earn.
 

E equals MC2

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Originally posted by: Anubis
id kill someone that is very important for far less then 100 billion

hell for 1 billion id off just about anyone

let's make it personal. How about your mother? If you had truly altruistic and logical model, that shouldn't make any diff.
 

Anubis

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Aug 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: E equals MC2
Originally posted by: Anubis
id kill someone that is very important for far less then 100 billion

hell for 1 billion id off just about anyone

let's make it personal. How about your mother? If you had truly altruistic and logical model, that shouldn't make any diff.

i said just about, bacicially excludeing family
 

DaveSimmons

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Aug 12, 2001
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I'd do it for 1 billion.

The worth of a human life is not infinite, and we prove this to ourselves every time we buy some luxury with money that could go instead to save starving children in somelandia.

Once I had the billion, I'd balance the scales by using half of it to give a fifty thousand people who'd die otherwise a full and happy life.


To flip it around, I'd also agree to be killed to save fifty thousand other people.
 

Sc4freak

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Oct 22, 2004
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Originally posted by: E equals MC2
5. There are billions of ppl that die each day at poverty stricken countries. He is just one of them. Think of all the good will you can do with the $100 Bill you're just rewarded. Think of all the LIVES you can SAVE with that money...
Nothing you can do with that money anyway, if that's the case. Since the human race would be extinct in 6 days at that death rate, you wouldn't have enough time to save anyone.
 

jhu

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Oct 10, 1999
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well, given that we're already killing people indirectly (eg, using oil, buying diamonds, etc.), why not?
 

Jeff7

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Jan 4, 2001
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The good of the many outweighs the needs of the few.


Originally posted by: Sc4freak
Originally posted by: E equals MC2
5. There are billions of ppl that die each day at poverty stricken countries. He is just one of them. Think of all the good will you can do with the $100 Bill you're just rewarded. Think of all the LIVES you can SAVE with that money...
Nothing you can do with that money anyway, if that's the case. Since the human race would be extinct in 6 days at that death rate, you wouldn't have enough time to save anyone.
Well if word gets out that you can get $100B from killing someone, there's going to be a lot of dead people really really quick. :p
 

StevenYoo

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Jul 4, 2001
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Originally posted by: Jeff7

Well if word gets out that you can get $100B from killing someone, there's going to be a lot of dead people really really quick. :p

not to mention a whole lot of worthless $100,000 bills in circulation
 

OrganizedChaos

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Apr 21, 2002
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if i knew i wasn't going to get caught i'd do it for 50k, probably less. a college education for 1 mortal sin is a good deal in my book.
 

Legendary

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Where does this money come from? If $100B is magically materialized in my account, then a dollar in itself would be worth less (still probably quite a bit though) If the $100B comes from the government, I would do it for less, since basically everyone in the country would be subsidizing a pointless murder. $1B would be quite enough, and yet not enough to debilitate the economy.
 

preslove

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Sep 10, 2003
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I'd do it, then adopt some poor african aids patient kids and give them all the love, attention and support any child could ever ask for.

























Then I'd sacrifice them to a powerful demon for magical powers.
 

buzzsaw13

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Apr 30, 2004
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Of course I'd kill him, then I'd spend the rest of my life throwing wads of hundred dollar bills at people.
 

Fingolfin269

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Originally posted by: prontospyder
nope.
and if I did kill the person, who is going to say I won't commit more atrocities with all that money in hand?

You have $100 billion dollars so at that point you can pretty much do whatever you want.
 

Journer

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Jun 30, 2005
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for 100 bil...i could cover it up myself...
i would do it for much much less...lots of good coud be done w/ the money...