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

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Kill someone seemingly unimportant? $100 Billion USD, tax free. No one will ever know.

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1. For the sake of example, I'm gonna resort to a stereotype and say that it's a 30 year old male tribesman from a remote jungle.

2. The $100 billion USD is tax-free, wired to your account. Since this is a fantasy, no one will question your newly granted wealth (such as police/IRS/government). It's all yours to enjoy with no strings attached.

3. No one will EVER find out about the dead tribesman. There's no one else involved in the operation. Just your conscious and the dead tribesman.

4. You have to kill the guy yourself. Don't worry, we'll go easy on you. You don't have hand-strangle him or stab him with a knife. We'll give you a gun and all you have to do is pull the trigger at his head.

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...




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This really borders on the quantification of life. It's also a nice way to surface the Ethics 101. $100 billion dollars at a death of one man OR saving thousands (and more) with the money? Logics dictate the you'd be a FOOL to not to kill the man.

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I would actually say yes. I'd probably be traumatized for the rest of my life but think of all the good you can do. Actually let's think REVERSE- think of all the boys/girls/men that could die of poverty because you didn't get $100 billion dollars. You're short sighted if you don't kill him for $100 Billion dollars. It all boils down to- kill 1 man to save thousands....? which?
 

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This really borders on the quantification of life.

$100 billion dollars at a death of one man OR saving thousands (and more) with the money?

Logics dictate the you'd be a FOOL to not to kill the man.
 

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Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Originally posted by: Juno
no, i will not kill any humans.

What if it was a bad human? Like a sex offender or terrorist?

I set the rules here. The man is completely unbeknownst to you and vice versa. You don't know what good or bad he's done.

You just meet the man at face value and kill him.
 

her209

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I would tell the man that I'll give his family $1 billion if he does it himself.
 

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Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Originally posted by: Juno
no, i will not kill any humans.

What if it was a bad human? Like a sex offender or terrorist?

if that causes me trouble, then i'd get him jailed. i'm not into murder.
 

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I dont want to sound like a sicko but truthfully, for $100billion tax free in cash with 0 legal/social consequences I'm willing to bet that truthfully, 99% of people would do it. $100billion outstrips many smaller countries in Purchasing Power Parity and the guilt might not fully set in immediately in time to prevent a murder.

I would love to say no, i never would , but truthfully, i might. Besides with 100billion, you can save a lot more than 1 life. Look wat he Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.
 

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with that much money... you can spend a few bucks of it to get his son a robot dad.
 

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Originally posted by: mwmorph
I dont want to sound like a sicko but truthfully, for $100billion tax free in cash with 0 legal/social consequences I'm willing to bet that truthfully, 99% of people would do it. $100billion outstrips many smaller countries in Purchasing Power Parity and the guilt might not fully set in immediately in time to prevent a murder.

I would love to say no, i never would , but truthfully, i might.

Exactly. I would actually say yes. I'd probably be traumatized for the rest of my life but think of all the good you can do.

Actually let's think reverse- think of all the boys/girls/men that could die of poverty because you didn't get $100 billion dollars.

You're short sighted if you don't kill him for $100 Billion dollars.


It all boils down to- kill 1 man to save thousands....? which?
 

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I'd ask him at gun point if he'd kill me for $100 Billion, if he says yes...he dies.
 

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for 100 billion? get away scott free? Id rub the gun on his skull until I reached his neck.
 

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Originally posted by: Stunt
I'd ask him at gun point if he'd kill me for $100 Billion, if he says yes...he dies.

And that alone would relieve you of your guilty conscious?

A more accurate question would be: "Would you let me kill you for $100 billion?"

What if he says yes? That automatically means it's okay for YOU?
What if he says no? That automatically means he's right? That others should suffer because he selfishly refuses to die?