What would you do for 10 Billion Dollars?

[ph34r t3h cute]

Originally posted by AmishSlayer
I think he meant an already dying child...one with lukemia or something..



What if you couldn't use a gun? What if you had to do it brutally in order to satisfy the wishes of the person that is getting rid of all the world's problems?

Basically what I'm asking is...What are the bounds of peoples' morality and how far people are willing to go for money or for the greater good?


For the 10 guns..if you were offered 10 billion for each trigger pulled? How many would you pull? I'd prolly pull a couple...maybe 3. For 5 guns..would you pull a second?

If by ending one life, you can save millions of others, it makes sence, of coruse if the kid had to give forever in a endless torment of pain or some freaky stuff like that, then no..

For money, I would do anything long as it did not harm someone else, and if there was 10 guns and give trigger I pulled gave me 1 billilon, I would only do one.. as 1. Im not dumb enough to risk more. 2. I would have enough money, I would not even know what to do with 1 bill, prob give most of it to needy places and give afew mil for myself *shrugs*

 

[dfc05]

Originally posted by D33
It's kinda freaky. One minute you're alive and the next minute you're :x

Don't worry though, most gamers get an ingame funeral service provided by close online mates and community members that knew you.

Ah, well, that's comforting.

I would never risk death for money. It's not worth it.
And I wouldn't kill anybody to "save the world" because first of all, there is no way I could get myself to kill somebody; and secondly, i wouldn't even believe in myself having the power to save the world at all, much less through killing somebody.

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

As greedy as I am, I am also a chicken shit and wouldn't put a gun to my head.
Killing a child to save the world I might be able to (after watching a lot of kindergarten cop perhaps). Then again this act would cause new problems for me and the relatives of the kid, causing massive protests, hunger strikes, people killing eachother or going into hungerstrike, people accusing other people of being a DeusEx2 fanboy and therefore hating every man and woman in a six mile radius of my house and, oh well, I guess "no" would be the short version of my answer....

 

[pHATE1982]

Originally posted by Lil' Timmy
wait, can i get the 100 billion for killing children? i'd be all about that!

strangely disturbing but made me piss myself laughing

 

[AmishSlayer]

If the public knew about the child's gruesome death to save the world from all problems...I don't think they'd take to kindly to it.

Imagine...just hearing about this from an outsider's point of view. Hearing about some child's brutal murder..knowing that your nice life is due to his/her death..and his/her family's sorrow...I couldn't handle it.

If it was an adult...I dunno...I'd hope they don't have much family...and if they did..and the family was present...I couldn't do it...almost nobody normal could...

To those that said they wouldn't kill an innocent person under any circumstances... What if they knew of the proposal..and said "Do it.. Kill me" ? Would you still say no? If you were the only person that was supposed to kill him/her and they want you to...would you pull the trigger or whatever you have to do?

 

[poseyjmac]

Originally posted by SilentKilla
yea id take a whole preschool out to take all disease and problems outta the world. the kids will have another life anyway.

can you prove that?

 

[|SwE|FishStick]

buy this forum and BAN all the moderators :cheese:

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

I think "just pulling the trigger" as many people say is just plain wrong.



If I was given a gun and told to shoot someone I wouldnt think, pull the trigger. I would think, shit, IF i pull this little trigger, I have killed a person. Something liveing and breathing just like me with most likely as much a right to live as me. Maybe more.





This is why some people in the army are beter than others. They see targets not people. You hear it all the time. But me personally, unless I really belived the person had to or deserved to die. I could NOT "just pull the trigger"

 

[|SwE|FishStick]

Originally posted by marksmanHL2
I think "just pulling the trigger" as many people say is just plain wrong.



If I was given a gun and told to shoot someone I wouldnt think, pull the trigger. I would think, shit, IF i pull this little trigger, I have killed a person. Something liveing and breathing just like me with most likely as much a right to live as me. Maybe more.





This is why some people in the army are beter than others. They see targets not people. You hear it all the time. But me personally, unless I really belived the person had to or deserved to die. I could NOT "just pull the trigger"

what does that have to do with this thread?

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

The fact that they were asking at the start, what would you do for X for money and people saying yes I would kill for this or that. I was pointing out that killing for some people is more than just "pulling the trigger" i guess..........

other than that. I dunno. I am ill, knackered and cant be bothered to justify my reasoning......

 

[D33]

Originally posted by dfc05
Ah, well, that's comforting.

Nice to see a bit of respect though

 

[Lil' Timmy]

Originally posted by AmishSlayer
Imagine...just hearing about this from an outsider's point of view. Hearing about some child's brutal murder..knowing that your nice life is due to his/her death..and his/her family's sorrow...I couldn't handle it.

being alive today means that, odds are, countless "innocents" have died to provide you with a nice life. it's a condition of the world, perhaps we're all a bit more removed from it since we didn't directly pull the trigger, but it's reality nonetheless.

now, for you fundos, if jesus came back tomorrow, would you kill him for our sins? what if he gave you a billion dollars and a ticket into heaven to do it? what if he had a kid who was causing all of the worlds suffering? would you kill jesus' baby to end the suffering in heaven? wait, what's going on?

 

[The Dark Elf]

Originally posted by marksmanHL2
I think "just pulling the trigger" as many people say is just plain wrong.



If I was given a gun and told to shoot someone I wouldnt think, pull the trigger. I would think, shit, IF i pull this little trigger, I have killed a person. Something liveing and breathing just like me with most likely as much a right to live as me. Maybe more.





This is why some people in the army are beter than others. They see targets not people. You hear it all the time. But me personally, unless I really belived the person had to or deserved to die. I could NOT "just pull the trigger"

shooting someone is quite easy, your detatched from that person and the event, you could even be quite a distance away. Whats that saying thats done the rounds recently, pain is funny unless its upclose. Similar sort of thing applies.. Stabbing someone, now thats different, you have to put effort into it and feel it actually going into someone, even slipping if it glancing on a bone, pulling a trigger is easy compared to stabbing someone.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

Originally posted by Fenric1138
shooting someone is quite easy

how many people have you shot fenric? i heard some vietnam vets talk about their experiences, and most of them said it was far from easy to kill someone, shooting or otherwise.

 

[NJD2003]

Man I would shoot a kid for $50, computer violence has desensitized me so much. I would defenitely take the chance with the guns, I mean c'mon, 10 Billion dollars!!! I could buy all your guys' mom's with that money.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Originally posted by Lil' Timmy
how many people have you shot fenric?

on purpose twice, by accident once, shot at once but it only grazed my leg, had a gun pointed in my face in LA once and that probably ranks as one of my scariest moments in the past few years

 

[craig]

Hmm, would I pull the trigger.. I'd have to say - No.

I'm not Bill Gates and although as a teen I used to be obsessed with money nowadays I dont really care about the stuff aslong as I've got enough to get me by.

I've got a brain, I'm articulate, whats to stop me earning my own money?

People are too fickle nowadays when it comes to cash, shows just how mercinary we all are.

As for would I kill a child to rid the world of all problems, the only person who could pose this question to me and 'pay-up' in theory would be god. If he/she was asking me to do such a thing I would be more likley to believe it was the devil in disguise trying to trick me into commiting the ultimate sin, so again No, I wouldnt do it.

As for would I kill myself to cure all the worlds problems .. I'm not Jesus and I'm not Neo and I only have one life and if this one life could make everyone elses a bit brighter then yes, I'd be willing to sacrifice myself.

 

[razorblade kiss]

Alot of you said you would take the chance with the gun scenario. "Hey if I die, I wont be around to worry about it."

I think that is horribly selfish! What about the people who love and care for you. Who need, and rely on you. WHo raised you! What about their feelings? 10 Billion is alot. But not enough to put such a burden on my family, and friends who've been there for me from day 1. I wont throw that away in the amount of time it takes the bullet to leave the barrel and pierce my brain. Come on guys.... *cough* greed *cough ;(

 

[SilentKilla]

Originally posted by poseyjmac
can you prove that?

give me a video camara and a cure for every disease here now, and every one to come.

 

[razorblade kiss]

You are a sick f.u.c.k!! WOW. and by the way there was no Twin Turbo Supra in 92. Only a single turbo. :rolling:

 

[Fat Tony!]

I certainly wouldnt how foolish are u guys u dont NEED that much money, it just shows how far greed can take you.... oh dear . Yes I would like 10 billion however i wouldnt spend it on myself but to help others I only ever buy what I need, apart from once in a while I buy a CD or something. This is why capitalism works so well people are greedy bastar-s. And yes I would kill a child to save the world's problems. Although i wouldnt kill myself....so technically thats contradictory so to be honest im not sure i certainly wouldnt want to do it myself so why should i do it to the child..... so id ask the child first (assuming he is mature enough to make such a decision).

 

[Kschreck]

10 BILLION Dollars, I mean thats an aweful lot, but if you pick the one loaded gun then, that would really suck, but if you picked a gun that was not laoded then that would rock. I don't know what I would do.

 

[Ridic]

Originally posted by razorblade kiss
You are a sick f.u.c.k!! WOW. and by the way there was no Twin Turbo Supra in 92. Only a single turbo. :rolling:

2 is close to 7 my bad.

 

[king John I]

no, i wouldn't do the gun thing, think about it, this is your ONLY life, would you want to still have a happy comfortable life or risk it for insane amounts of money. (i guess if your life sucks you would do it)

yeah, i would kill the wee children, but only if i got off scott free.

and NO, i wouldn't sacrifice myself for the world, because whats the point of having a world if you arnt going to apprieciate it? you wouldn't even know that other people would either.

 

[Ridic]

Originally posted by king John I
no, i wouldn't do the gun thing, think about it, this is your ONLY life,

you dont know that for sure buddy...you coulda had 8 lives already.

 

[Echelon]

i'd do it. easy money...
i'd even be responsible for the death of a whole country in order to get 100 billion dollars.. or so