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Would YOU press the red button?

Asked by JackAdams (6574points) September 24th, 2008

On March 7, 1986, a Twilight Zone episode was aired, with a segment titled, “Button, Button,” in which a financially-strapped couple is given (by a mysterious visitor) a box with a red button on the top.

If the red button is pressed, two things will happen: (1) The couple will receive $200,000 cash, and (2) Someone whom the couple does not know, will die. In this episode, the woman decides to end her financial problems by pressing the button, and, as promised, she and her husband receive $200,000 cash.

If this scenario was presented to you, would you press that red button, knowing that a total stranger (to you) would die as a result?

There is no way that I would push that button, even if the offer was for $200 million.
(Maybe I would, if it meant using the money to save the life of someone whom I loved, very much.)

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