Does the name of that random person rhyme with "rump" or "rootin" ?
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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That's the premise of the Twilight Zone episode "Button, Button". After she pressed it, the man making the deal said he'd go to "a random person on Earth" offering the same to them (implying that the person being killed will be the one who pushed the button earlier in the chain)
He’d do anything for attention, so I could see this video happening in future if he felt that social media would support him
I’m not sure I can answer that yet.
So what I’d suggest is sending me 10k and i’ll see if I take. However I’d also suggest we do multiple runs just to confirm consistency. I hear 100 times is a good number for checking consistencies.
Someone just watched The Box lol
I immediately thought of this as well and am irked that now I remember this terrible film
It's always the last person who pressed the button dies that's how this works and the part they never tell you about.
So yes you could press the button and live until someone else presses the button.
But you're betting on no one pressing the button after you. Are you willing to take that risk?
Break the button, save a murderers life but stop the cycle of violcence.
This is the trolley problem on steroids tbh. I have $10.000 in my savings. I could use them to save a whole lot more than one life! Yet I don’t. At face value this is no different from accepting the money and a rando kicks the bucket.
This is basically what we living in developed countries are all doing every day.
I don't know about you, but I don't have enough in the end of taking care of myself to feed a person elsewhere but the 1% sure as fuck do.
In my current situation (ok economically but not without worries), wouldn't fucking take a million, nor a billion for that matter. It is not like all my consumption habits are %100 devoid of someone else's suffering or maybe even death, indirectly. But having a vague idea about bad effects of consumption habits vs knowing it will be a direct cause of death is two completely different things imo. On the otherhand if my life or a loved one's life depends on that money, that is a harder question and I don't think I can really know the answer without going through it and deciding.
Ok now lets do billionaires but 100mil and ten thousand people in a far away country dies.
I think a billion id take because you can save thousands and thousands of people
I could live with that choice. Maybe in the end I’d feel so guilty that I wouldn’t even use the money for myself at all.
Which is an interesting debate as well. How does your answer change if you can’t use that money for you or known people at all, and only “for good”. Do you feel less guilty?
As another commenter said it’s just a different version of the trolley problem
Yeah I thought about that but you can not trade one person's life for a thousand others unless that person willingly participates.
By logic this should also extend to me and my loved ones but ofcourse when it is someone closer to you whose life may be saved, you can probably no longer act objectively.
I don’t think that’s entirely true
Everyday society chooses to save a persons life and not another’s
Not explicitly but not so indirectly either
Yeah but I think there is a difference between the two, it is a more direct consequence of your decision only, not society on a whole. I would imagine shared guilt of indirect results is much lighter on the psychology than a direct and visible consequence of what comes out of one's mouth. There is ofcourse alot of grey region scenarios in between (like you won't know who dies, or death will be of natural causes but immediate etc).
RIP 750,000 random strangers.
Since people are already dying at random I would take it. Given they do not actively enforce the dying part.
8 times.
12 if I gotta pay taxes.