Philosophical question: You're trapped... there's no escape... would you push the button?

[iversonyin]

Why wouldnt you push the button?

You have a greater chance to live.....11/12 assuming everyone will push the button

Even not everyone push the button, you'll live. its a gurantee chance...unless you are the 12th

 

[no0b]

Dont push the button, die a slow painful death from dehydration.
Push the button have a good chance of living or a fast death.

 

[Jeff7]

Rip the button out of the wall, and look for parts, or anything that might be of use in some way. (maybe rip the sign off and use it as a tool)

Urinate on the walls and wait for water damage in the event that cheap concrete was used.



Looks like user iamme has already taken this approach.

how can i read the note? i assume there is a light in the room. also, the button must be connected to something.

i'd dismantle the button and light fixture, then connect the light's wires and the button's wires together. that would short circuit everything and then i'd wait until they come into the concrete room to fix the button....when i'd make my escape.

Originally posted by: Phokus

Ok, lets just pretend there's a light source in the room and that what you just described isn't possible :disgust:

Edit: Actually i take it back... what if you trying to dismantle the button activates the booby trap? (plus you run the risk of fvcking up and everyone else pushes the button but not you)

Geez, you've got all kinds of restrictions. Better make this one heck of a long sign.
No ripping signs off the wall.
No ripping the button out of the wall.
No damaging the light fixture.
No running around the pool either.

Originally posted by: notfred
I'd wonder how they got the framing for the cement out of the room without putting a hole in the wall.

Hmm, interesting - they must have also had quick drying cement. Either that, or you were frozen in carbonite, dumped in, and then set to thaw out once the cement had dried. ......looks like PhasmatisNox addressed this too. Oh well.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: iamme
i would have pushed the button first and then read the note :evil:

LOL! Me too... OH, a nice, big, red, shiny button! PUSH!

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: iversonyin
Why wouldnt you push the button?

You have a greater chance to live.....11/12 assuming everyone will push the button

Even not everyone push the button, you'll live. its a gurantee chance...unless you are the 12th

Assuming what the note says is true :evil:

 

[Argo]

I don't understand the note. Does that mean if I'm one of the first 11 to push the button I will get out? If no, then it makes no sense to push the button - I don't gain anything from it, other than a chance to die if I'm the 12th person.

 

[imported_Mike]

Why would you "hold out" for another person not to push, you're trapped with no food or water...you're going to bloody die in there. Reverse the other way around, IF YOU DON'T push the button 12 people will die...if you do, only 1 person will die and it won't be you ++

 

[StageLeft]

Of course, because everybody is. Essentially this is setup that the last person to try and push the button dies. I see no moral quagmire here at all.

 

[JDub02]

because of the 2nd amendment, I wouldn't be in that situation.

i'd bus' a cap befo' anybody kidnappin' me, yo.

 

[whattaguy]

I'd go back to sleep. Stupid dream.

 

[DougK62]

This is silly. Any sane and rational person would push the button.

 

[ribbon13]

I'd use my incredibly manly pecks, and bust through the concrete with my hard nipples which I got from thinking about how much fun its going to be to sink my teeth into the spine of the persons responsible and ripping it out.

 

[mobobuff]

I'd use my powers of farting, and fart like the wind! After enough methane had risen and collected at the ceiling, I'd lay down and throw my shoe at the light, smashing it and causing a spark to ignite the methane, which would successfully blow off the roof of the cement box. The pressure created from the explosion would probably make my eardrums explode and other side-effects, but hey, at least I didn't conform and push the stupid button.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: notfred
I'd wonder how they got the framing for the cement out of the room without putting a hole in the wall.

irrelevant question: just accept it as it is

Its not really irrelevant though. Thats impossible. Which means we're dealing with god or some sort of amazing being.

Unless the ceiling was lowered down onto it or something, but that much would be obvious.

I'd probably push the button, for no other reason than I like pushing buttons more than not pushing them.

 

[Leper Messiah]

I would think: "What would McGuyver do?" in this situtation. Something to do with toothpicks and duct tape, most likely.

 

[GasX]

I'd push the button before reading the note under the assumption that it would cause someone to bring me my morning coffee

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: L3p3rM355i4h
I would think: "What would McGuyver do?" in this situtation. Something to do with toothpicks and duct tape, most likely.

Naw, there's no toothpicks or duct tape in the room. He's probably build a crude explosive out of a turd and his own pubic hair some how though.

 

[RandomFool]

I'd punch the button and then fashion a primitive digging device out of the note and toe nail clippings and tunnel my way out.

 

[Ramma2]

What booby trap could there be, with 6 solid sides of concrete all around you?

 

[Semidevil]

I would want to push it.....but my indecisiveness would cause me to think twice, and by the time I actualy push it, I will probably become the 12th person.....

then I die anyways.

 

[Ramma2]

What about the edges of the button? Maybe someone would try to kill themselves if they were sharp enough.

 

[RandomFool]

Originally posted by: Ramma2
What booby trap could there be, with 6 solid sides of concrete all around you?

maybe they're moving walls of concrete that will crush you in to jelly...either that or the button shoots acid.

 

[jdub1107]

I'd push the button. I'm going to die for sure in the room, may as well try to get out while I can.

 

[gigapet]

bush the button

self preservation > *

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Ramma2
What booby trap could there be, with 6 solid sides of concrete all around you?

Poison gas filters in around the button opening. Or imps teleport in behind you and fireball you to death.