[blue]
If you could push a button that gives you a hundred thousand dollars but a random person dies, would you do it?
[yellow, cautious]
Interesting thought experiment… intuitively, I’d say no, but it’s worth thinking about… it’s a genuine moral dilemma in a capitalist world: there’s a dialectic between our desires and the common good…
MEANWHILE, BILLIONAIRES
[an orange guy in a suit is shown with a terrifying grin pushing as many buttons as possible at once on a table, slamming one of the buttons, and even using their foot to press an extra one]
https://thebad.website/comic/the_totally_hypothetical_button_thought_experiment
Since I recently finished Zero Escape, my first idea is to press it a couple billion times
(If I get lucky it’ll kill all the stupid people)
You can’t kill all the stupid people without killing everyone. We’re all stupid in our own ways.
Your terms are acceptable.
But any random button push has a 50% chance of killing someone that’s stupider than average.