Random Question #7

**Pete** · 10-12-2009, 07:12 PM

OK I'm bringing it back, but this one will actually make you think a little bit.

Imagine this scenario:

A man offers you ten million dollars in exchange for one person you've had an interaction with dying. You have no idea who it is, and it's only limited to people you've actually had some form of IN PERSON interaction with. They could be as close as your family or as distant as some cashier you paid on a trip across the country decades ago; as long as you've interacted with them at some point in your life, they're fair game. Seeing or hearing them via media does not count, nor do internet encounters. It's only for people you've met/ dealt with in person. The bare bones of it is that if you take the money, someone will die some kind of untimely death. Essentially it's russian roulette, but you can't die.

Do you do it?

**Rocky** · 10-12-2009, 07:56 PM

So you're saying I can't put Fate on the chopping block? ****.

It's a pretty tough decision, but ultimately I could go for it. On one hand, ten million dollars is a lot of money, that can pay off a lot of bills, loans, get me through school, etc. On the other hand, every person in the world has a right to live. Everybody has a family, everyone has dreams, goals, things they would like to accomplish. I would feel guilty about being the cause of someone's death, whether I knew them very well or not.

I would probably take the money and hope it was someone whom I didn't really know all that well, and/or someone that has wronged me in the past that I still dislike.

**Dodie16** · 10-12-2009, 08:19 PM

I wouldn't do it. I don't care if it's a lot of money. Yeah, you could do a lot with it, but it still wouldn't change the fact that someone's life had to be extinguished in order for you to get that money. That thought alone would haunt me for the rest of my life, and would probably make me really miserable. I honestly wouldn't want for anyone to die, no matter how horrible they are/were to me.

Btw, there's a "random question #7" made already. No big deal, I guess there can be more than one, I'm just saying.

**GypsyElder** · 10-12-2009, 08:42 PM

Probably not, like Dodie said, it would probably haunt me for the rest of my life, no matter who dies.

Plus there's a chance one of my family members would die from it right? I don't think I would take that chance.
That would be even worse, knowing you got the money, but your dad or brother died because of it.

**OceanEyes28** · 10-12-2009, 09:20 PM

**** the money. If I don't take it, nothing changes. As it is, I'm happy. And I don't have someone's goddamn death on my hands. It's a lot of money, but it's not worth risking the lives of my loved ones or wondering for the rest of my life who the hell I killed. Bluh, creepy. No thank you.

**Sean** · 10-12-2009, 09:54 PM

In this economy?

Hell yeah I'd do it. =P

In all seriousness though, I may or may not depending on when the situation was presented to me. If it meant the death of a loved one, then I wouldn't be able to enjoy that $10 mil.

**Sasquatch** · 10-12-2009, 09:58 PM

I would love to say that I don't care about the money, but I don't know what I'd do unless I was in that situation. Of course, I'd like to think that I would place human life as more valuable than any amount of money -- that's how I live now, anyway -- but I don't know if I can honestly claim that I would be that selfless.

Because you don't know who it is. If they said, "you take this money and ________ will die", and you took it and they died, you'd know. Duh. But if you didn't know who it was, how would you know that it was you who caused it? It may not even be a person with whom you associate anymore. It may even be somebody you don't even know, somebody you talked to for ten seconds in line at a gas station on the other side of the country or something. So when you think about it, if you have a family of ten other people, and you have met one million (which is a low, low estimate), and one of them will die? That would mean that there is a 0.0001% chance that a member of your family will die. If you have 100 friends (which, let's face it, we all might associate with a hundred people on a regular basis -- possibly), the chances of one of your friends dying would be 0.001%. So chances are extremely, extremely small that somebody you actually care about would be the one to die.

So if you've met only a million people, and your family has ten other members, there would be a 100,000:1 chance that one of them would die. I'd say that's pretty good odds, right?

Pete: You got this from a movie coming out, didn't you? Press the red button, get a million dollars, somebody dies.

**Polk** · 10-12-2009, 10:11 PM

Do you eventually find out who you killed if you took the money? Like, as soon as you took the man up on the deal and received the money, he hands you the name on a piece of paper?

I think if that was the case, then I would do it. I would use some of the money to find the person, take them to the nearest Indian burial ground, and bury them there until they come back to life. And then they'd come back to life, and I'd be guilt free to the person and their loved ones. Sure, they'd be a soulless abomination whose only goal in life was to feed on the flesh of the living, but hey. I brought your stupid kid back to life. What else do you want from me?

Govinda · 10-13-2009, 12:36 AM

I have met Gordon Brown, Alex Salmond, Susan Boyle, Simon Cowell and Nicola Sturgeon.

GIVE ME THE MONEY.

**Bleachfangirl** · 10-13-2009, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by OceanEyes28

**** the money. If I don't take it, nothing changes. As it is, I'm happy. And I don't have someone's goddamn death on my hands. It's a lot of money, but it's not worth risking the lives of my loved ones or wondering for the rest of my life who the hell I killed. Bluh, creepy. No thank you.

Yeppers, that's pretty much it. Sure, 10 million dollars is a lot of money, but we're doing fine now the way things are, so I'm not risking anything as serious as anyone's life over a bit of money I don't need. If I accepted that money, I'd feel like the death of any of the people I've met before would be my fault, since it's not like I KNOW which one is the life I traded in the deal...unless there was a condition that the unlucky chosen one died right off the bat. Then I'd know, but still feel guilty about it forever. I've never met anyone horrible enough that I thought they deserved death either. e_e

**GypsyElder** · 10-13-2009, 01:43 AM

Originally Posted by Pete

A man offers you ten million dollars in exchange for one person you've had an interaction with dying. You have no idea who it is, and it's only limited to people you've actually had some form of IN PERSON interaction with. They could be as close as your family or as distant as some cashier you paid on a trip across the country decades ago; as long as you've interacted with them at some point in your life, they're fair game. Seeing or hearing them via media does not count, nor do internet encounters. It's only for people you've met/ dealt with in person. The bare bones of it is that if you take the money, someone will die some kind of untimely death. Essentially it's russian roulette, but you can't die.

Do you do it?

You know, now that I think about it, the guy who would be offering me a deal like this, would probably be some weird looking old guy, in the back of an alley with a wooden stub leg, long grey beard, wearing some old dirty drapes, that he stole from a house in Jerusalem.

you take the offer, and next thing you know, you're cursed.

what he looks like would influence my choice too, if he was wearing a hat like this

there's no way I could refuse. jk

**Josh_R** · 10-13-2009, 05:22 AM

I would not take the man up on his offer simply because I don't really have no need for money...The marines pay for my housing my schooling and all my bills...Of course if I was not in the marines I would take the deal...

**Clint** · 10-13-2009, 06:12 AM

I'd take the third option. I would kill the person offering the money, due to the fact that he's obviously a murdering psychopath with no respect for the human condition and therefore deserves to rot in hell for all eternity, and then I'd take the money anyway, without ever pushing the button. So the guy offering the money gets what he deserves, and I take what I want. Barbarianism is always the right path.

**RagnaToad** · 10-13-2009, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by OceanEyes28

**** the money. If I don't take it, nothing changes. As it is, I'm happy. And I don't have someone's goddamn death on my hands. It's a lot of money, but it's not worth risking the lives of my loved ones or wondering for the rest of my life who the hell I killed. Bluh, creepy. No thank you.

That's pretty much what I was thinking.

Basically, you're asking me to kill a random human being for ten million dollars?

The answer is no.

Che · 10-13-2009, 10:22 AM

I wouldn't take the money. I couldn't risk those closest to me dying, I wouldn't be able to live with it.

I may end up killing someone I don't like eventually anyway, though. Like people who drive 40MPH on a one-lane highway that's 65MPH with a lot of curves and unsafe places to pass them.

**Unknown Entity** · 10-13-2009, 03:06 PM

Lulz, would it be safe if you made a bunch of leaflets/took up a job giving out leaflets, go into a big City, and hand them out to a couple of thousand people? And do it for a few months, by then you'd have given out a million plus leaflets! That's more than a million people you've come into contact with! =P

Seriously though. I don't know if I'd take it or not. I could do so much with it, and help so many people with that amount of money... but I'd always know I made a choice which resulted in someone's unfair death. Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. I'd ask for time to think about it.

**Firefly** · 10-13-2009, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Unknown Entity

Lulz, would it be safe if you made a bunch of leaflets/took up a job giving out leaflets, go into a big City, and hand them out to a couple of thousand people? And do it for a few months, by then you'd have given out a million plus leaflets! That's more than a million people you've come into contact with! =P

Seriously though. I don't know if I'd take it or not. I could do so much with it, and help so many people with that amount of money... but I'd always know I made a choice which resulted in someone's unfair death. Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. I'd ask for time to think about it.

thats exactly what I would say,but I would more than likely say no.Preety much evryone I have met,I have bonded with,and I couldn't bear havin their death on my hands.Its a fate worse than death.

**Padraic** · 10-13-2009, 03:40 PM

I would cuz if not me it'd be someone else, and it would keep going, also I might get a poor sap who wants to kill themself

so in short I would take the money, in shorter, yes. Lets jut hope that its somewhere over populated... also couldn't you just kill the guy and take the money?... I suppose thats still killing someone... or just steal it without hurting them...

**RagnaToad** · 10-14-2009, 04:46 AM

I can't believe all of you would actually take the money, and thus kill another human being in exchange for cash.

The world is fucked up.

**little.miss.VIOLENT** · 10-15-2009, 01:37 AM

much as i love money.......... especially that much of it.........

id have to reject the offer. too much risk of my boys getting offed.

**xTidus** · 10-15-2009, 02:07 AM

Hmm..
Maybe I would but, If someone wetre to die that i actualy like then . Hmm..
Yeah I would take the money! If it was in £'s though.

**RagnaToad** · 10-15-2009, 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by Lolita V

much as i love money.......... especially that much of it.........

id have to reject the offer. too much risk of my boys getting offed.

And if they told you that no one you'd miss would die?

That would be alright?

This thread saddens me.

**Block** · 03-19-2010, 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by Pete

OK I'm bringing it back, but this one will actually make you think a little bit.

Imagine this scenario:

A man offers you ten million dollars in exchange for one person you've had an interaction with dying. You have no idea who it is, and it's only limited to people you've actually had some form of IN PERSON interaction with. They could be as close as your family or as distant as some cashier you paid on a trip across the country decades ago; as long as you've interacted with them at some point in your life, they're fair game. Seeing or hearing them via media does not count, nor do internet encounters. It's only for people you've met/ dealt with in person. The bare bones of it is that if you take the money, someone will die some kind of untimely death. Essentially it's russian roulette, but you can't die.

Do you do it?

Awesome question. Yes I do. Sorry friends and family, but the rest of us will grieve your loss from my mansion.