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Jokes aside, no. I don't think I'd do it for $100 million. I seriously don't.
The justifications y'all are providing don't work for me. Maybe it's because I have a son, and I can imagine he would be the one to die, then I remember everyone is the child of someone, or the friend, etc.
I will not be the knowing cause of the death of some random person just for money. You guys can have it. No, thank you.
Yeah I'm not killing for money, even if I'm not the one doing the physical part of the execution
Bro, for 100 million, if you told me the button would kill me, I would press it, after writing my will first.
That is almost world-chaning money, so I would be ethicaly obligated from my perspective to press it.
Im the same way. If someone gave me a gun and gave me a choice to shoot myself or a stranger, I would shoot myself.
Mostly because I believe what we do matters. Many dont.
You could save way more than 1 life with $100M. Malaria nets save on average one life for every $3k donated. Child deworming doesn't save a life per se, but you can stop a child from being permanently disabled for ~$500.
Sacrificing a person in order to help a number of people survive for a month or a year is still a terribly bad calculation if you ask me
Not survive for a month or year but for a child to survive the rest of their lives, which is many decades on average.
Ok, then you are sacrificing number of people to save one person. Think of what happens in wars: people don't even flinch at sacrificing someone
$100 million brings you into a different philosophical debate. $100 million is more than enough that you could use the money to save at least a few lives
If the whole 100M was spent on saving lives, no contest.
What if you just kept back $50 for a nice meal out? Is that meal cursed?
I would in a heartbeat. I would keep 5k for myself, 10k for my parents. And donate the rest to cleaning up the environment, and curing cancer/diabetes. That would save more people.
Still pennies compared to the damage we make to the environment any single day