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Posted: 11/2/2009 10:30:38 AM | Even though I have not seen the movie I do have an ideal of what it is about but my thing is how many people will do that. Push the button for a million dollars knowing somewhere in the world someone is gonna die because you pushed the button. Now be truely honest with yourself would you push that button knowing that and remember it can be anybody in the world so that will include family /friends and maybe your kids.
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Posted: 11/2/2009 10:42:24 AM | Well, until you threw the family/friends part in there....I would most certainly push the button without hesitation. Obviously, for selfish reasons I wouldn't want to risk losing a family member.
Argh. Darn.
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Posted: 11/2/2009 10:43:05 AM | | im hoping for a serial rapist or kiddie diddler on the other end once i press that button....i would do it..i have little sympathy. we all die sometime. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 10:44:54 AM | I thought about it when I first heard of the premise of the movie and I would be sorely tempted. After all, the chances of anyone I know being "the one" to suffer the consequences of my pushing the button are literally millions to one. And a million bucks would go a long way in my life right now.
But could I do it? I don't know.
[edit] Of course, the question would be, how could you know you were responsible for anyone in particular's death? Thousands of people die around the world every day for a variety of reasons. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 10:53:26 AM | | In other words is your soul worth a million dollars ? Mine is not for sale | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 10:59:27 AM |
im hoping for a serial rapist or kiddie diddler on the other end once i press that button....i would do it..i have little sympathy. we all die sometime
What about a serial kiddie rapist? Not to be confused with a serial KITTY rapist. Leave Mr. Snuffins alone. He already walks with a limp. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 10:59:28 AM | The movie is based on a short story by Richard Matheson and a version of it appeared as a Twilight Zone episode. In the TZ episode, the couple was told that someone that they didn't know would die.
Well, until you threw the family/friends part in there....I would most certainly push the button without hesitation.
Keep in mind that the next person who gets the box doesn't know you.
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Posted: 11/2/2009 11:05:21 AM | I'd push that button five times!!! I've done the math, and for me to live the rest of my life in luxury... that's the number...
Well, it's actually 3.6 mill... but why scrimp anywhere? 
In other words is your soul worth a million dollars ? Mine is not for sale I already sold mine... and with the money, I could buy another one... they're actually quite cheap now-a-days...  | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 11:26:48 AM | | Hmm...well, it's a fairly safe bet that I'm probably already going to hell anyway, hence selling my soul would become a moot point, soooooo...... | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 11:56:06 AM | Just another one of those movies to get us to question our own morality. Sort of like Indecent Proposal asked the same question but from an infidelity pov rather than causing a death. Personally, I don't think I could 'live with myself' from pushing the button or getting paid to let someone screw my wife. I'm just weird like that.
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Posted: 11/2/2009 12:12:22 PM | | I don't think I could go through with it (pushing the button). Despite all the temptation. Too much bad karma around that money then, IMO, anytime I went and spent any of it. I'd keep thinking about what had exactly happened, and to whom, everytime I was enjoying any of that money. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 12:15:59 PM | Well I do know that with Indecent Proposal I would never ever do something like that ever. Now if it is just Sleep and No Sex then ok but other than that Not No But Hell No and I am being real on that.
But with the question I just ask I am gonna say No because thats a huge risk of losing someone close in the family. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 12:19:35 PM | | ^^Yeah but what if that guy who offers this deal can guarantee you it's not someone in the close family? | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 12:28:27 PM | And if that button didn't kill but one person, but millions? Imagine the pressure on heads of state?
One of these days someone just might decide that "the people" are just not worth it anymore, and in a drunken fiasco, accidentally start something that, come the soberness of the morning, might not have been such a great idea! | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 12:28:44 PM | Well Honestly I would have to think about it but knowing me I would not do it because of how it I got it. It would be blood money and not sweat money or lottery money  | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 5:50:17 PM | It is question that simply cannot be answered: NO ONE knows for sure what he/she would do if faced with such a ludicrous situation.
And whoever said we do it all the time is right, but ignorance is bliss, eh? | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 6:01:33 PM | | I don't even have to think twice about this, of course I wouldn't push that button. Don't care how much money it is, I have to live with myself. I could never be responsible for someone else losing his/her life. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 8:32:35 PM | | Nope. Wouldn't push that button. Not if I don't have any choice in who dies. Now if it means I get to fry some serial rapist/killer/drug dealer whatever, then fine. No problem. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 9:23:58 PM | No, I would not.
But I would totally screw Robert Redford for a cool mill, so it's not like I have really HIGH standards or anything. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 9:28:12 PM |
In other words is your soul worth a million dollars ? Mine is not for sale
Well, if you've ever done anything for the money, you could say that was you selling your soul. The soul is an abstract, intangible thing free from any kind of worldly limitations. Your not selling your soul, your damning another to death. You will damage your conscience, but your soul won't really care, it's too busy playing pingpong with God or something close to that. | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 10:48:48 PM | | No, no matter how badly I need that million dollars, and I do, I could not just randomly push a button and kill some random person. It wouldn't even be a hard decision. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 10:31:51 AM | | I would turn the person (that came to me with the box and million dollars) into the authorities and then write a book about my experiences and make more then a million dollars. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 10:54:54 AM | | I know my luck. I press the button and the lucky winner of death would be me. You can set your watch by my luck! | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 1:51:56 PM | Honestly, the post stating that no-one knows what they'd do if faced with that situation is presumptuous.
It was also said that not wanting to risk a family member is a selfish reason..very strange. For any other person to die for someone's greed is just as selfish.
I don't even have to think twice about this, of course I wouldn't push that button. Don't care how much money it is, I have to live with myself. I could never be responsible for someone else losing his/her life.
I agree. Benefit of the doubt, for those that would, I'm not sure if they're for real.
If it was their own life in the button pusher's hands, all but those with a death wish, would be unanimous in saying NO, DON'T DO IT! | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 2:00:53 PM | Heh! I *already* live with enough guilt that people die because I don't do enough. Not about to add anything on to that burden, thank you very much. Beside, I jus' *know* I'd hate a life or two as a sardine.
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