Would you die if you could help save millions?

[Texashiker]

Lets say that a pharmaceutical company is one step from finding a cure for cancer. The final step on the trials are 2 shots.

shot 1 - will cure all cancer

shot 2 - will kill you

You are asked to volunteer to take 1 of the 2 shots. The drug company will then know which shot is the final drug, and as a result millions of lives will be saved.

The kicker is, your sacrifice will never be known. If you die, your name will never be honored, as the test are top secret.

Do you volunteer?

 

[crab]

Yes.

 

[darkxshade]

Uh why would I be taking the shot if I don't have cancer, wouldn't this trial be used on 2 volunteers who has cancer?


My answer is no because there should be plenty of terminal patients waiting in line to do it. If I were terminal, then yes.

 

[BoomerD]

What's in it for me?

 

[Arcadio]

Of course. You've got to be extremely egocentric to say no.

 

[Texashiker]

Uh why would I be taking the shot if I don't have cancer, wouldn't this trial be used on 2 volunteers who has cancer?

<double facepalm here>

Lets say you have anal cancer from years of unprotected anal sex.

do you volunteer now?

 

[Hacp]

No fucking way. I'd rather live and let everyone go fuck themselves. Me Me Me Me Me. Whooot!

 

[BoomerD]

<double facepalm here>

Lets say you have anal cancer from years of unprotected anal sex.

do you volunteer now?

Is that called "Tex-Ass Style?"

FWIW, if you're getting cancer from anal sex, you're probably doing it wrong.


(of course, IMO, anal sex IS doing it wrong...that orifice was built as an exit, not an entrance)

 

[gorcorps]

<double facepalm here>

Lets say you have anal cancer from years of unprotected anal sex.

do you volunteer now?

If I have cancer and am gonna die soon anyway, then it'd be stupid not to. You get the wrong shot, you're still dead. You get the right shot, you're not dead.

Now if for some reason I don't have cancer, then they all can suck it. The worlds overpopulated as it is.

 

[NFS4]

 

[Texashiker]

FWIW, if you're getting cancer from anal sex, you're probably doing it wrong.

HPV infection is suspected to contribute to anal cancer, as well as mouth, throat and cervical cancer.

 

[JTsyo]

In this scenario I wouldn't volunteer. In others I might.

 

[darkxshade]

HPV infection is suspected to contribute to anal cancer, as well as mouth, throat and cervical cancer.

Well you seem to know more about this than I do, have you been offered such a shot?

 

[Hacp]

Who are the 3 idiots who volunteered to die?

 

[Scarpozzi]

Would my insurance be billed for this shot? Is it FDA approved?

I don't want to leave a financial burden behind for my family if it's going to kill me.

 

[destrekor]

Lets say that a pharmaceutical company is one step from finding a cure for cancer. The final step on the trials are 2 shots.

shot 1 - will cure all cancer

shot 2 - will kill you

You are asked to volunteer to take 1 of the 2 shots. The drug company will then know which shot is the final drug, and as a result millions of lives will be saved.

The kicker is, your sacrifice will never be known. If you die, your name will never be honored, as the test are top secret.

Do you volunteer?

Sure.

And yes, your name would be concealed for some time, but in two or three generations, those files will be most likely become declassified, and then the name would be known the world over.
I would finally upstage one of my ancestral relatives. Still waiting on my own stunt on the level of lightning kites.

 

[MegaVovaN]

No. Like someone else said, use the shot on patients who already have cancer.

And, like someone else said, world is way overpopulated as is. Millions dead is not much...

 

[Juked07]

Hypothetical situation lacks constraint that makes it so our decision to decline the shot means it can't simply be tested on someone else.

 

[destrekor]

No. Like someone else said, use the shot on patients who already have cancer.

And, like someone else said, world is way overpopulated as is. Millions dead is not much...

It might have to be tested on a cancer-free patient to determine the actual danger. So, what then... ?

 

[PingSpike]

At the last moment I would muscle the syringe from the doctor and inject him instead.

 

[darkxshade]

It might have to be tested on a cancer-free patient to determine the actual danger. So, what then... ?

Then give it to an AIDS patient?

Point is there are probably a lot of people who are worse off than I am that could take the shot. Makes to sense to ask a perfectly fine individual to do it. Even then you could ask a homeless bum or a death row prisoner if it comes to it.

 

[dr150]

This is a stupid question so you get NO answer. :thumbsdown:

 

[DJK Frank 16]

Nope, because I wouldn't want my children to have to deal with overpopulation and all that goes along with it.

I believe that if we really wanted a cure for cancer we would have already found it.

 

[zokudu]

If I was dying of cancer then yes absolutely. If not then I would probably say yes. I'm not exactly tied down or anything.

 

[Skitzer]

So now the thread is about anal cancer?

What makes a million other peoples lives more valuable than mine?