£1million pounds in exchange for a life

I wouldn't take it. I am currently unemployed, and a little in debt. I have student loans and still in college. I read this question about a year ago and my answer was absolutely yes. One thing I have thought about was the following: Do you see the person die or the effects of that person's death? (effect on family members, etc.) If not, what if no one does die and you just turn down 1 million dollars due to having moral value?
Tl;dr I wouldn't take it if I knew for sure someone would die.

 

I certainly would. In a way, sure, it's selfish. Around 150,000-300,000 people die every day on average, don't quote me on that, just did a quick google search. Tacking 1 person onto that grand total is nothing... Turning down 1million pounds to add 1 person to a total of 6 figures? Sure.

You can say "well that doesn't justify murder", and you're right, it certainly doesn't. However, people get paid to bring death upon somebody everyday. Many of those times, It's MUCH LESS money. I hate to seem offensive, but for 1million pounds, I'd look at that person in the eye first. Just an opinion. comment as you will

 

No I would not take the briefcase as the guilt would kill me first.

 

No, i would'nt, i would feel so guilty i probaly could'nt live with myself.
Also the 1 million dollars is probaly illegally obtained since nobody would give away 1 million dollars randomly, either the police or that group that made the money with drugs and stuff like that will track u down.

 

I watched a movie/tv show similar to this its from the twilight zone called "Button, Button" It was interesting but kind of creepy >.> I personally would be like nah, because after what i saw in that movie a person who the person knew died

 

Of course. If the person is random I probably wouldn't care since the world is already shit. People die everyday for reasons they can't control. If it wasn't his/her life it's anothers.

 

No, because of the lack of information. What if was just a "when you take this case someone will happen to die of natural causes, completely unrelated to you taking the case! mwahahaha" or "when you take this case I will unleash a horrible death on a person you may or may not know!"

I couldn't live with myself being the cause of someone's death, indirect or not I let it happen.

 

No, as it would result in me acting immorally. Human life is worth much more than money.

 

You sound like a really nice person. /sarcasm

Rather than valuing a life in 'millions of pounds' as if it's a calculable, determined figure, I'd say that life itself is priceless, and if people are willing to kill somebody who they don't know purely because they themselves don't know them, nor care about them or the people it would affect then something is indeed wrong with society today.

This merely proves that money is more important than life in values nowadays, whereas many years ago this wasn't the case. What happened?

 

yep..
life goes on

 

Yes. F dat guy who dies..i got me a mill

 

I'll take the money if it was no one who i knew died.

 

All I could do was just laugh when I saw some of the responses to this thread. I laughed at the fact that some people would sacrifice a human life, for their own greed, the best is when these people makes excuses to make themselves feel better, I'd rather see a person sacrifice a human's life for pure greed, than rather bullshit excuses to justify a loss of a human life at their own hands, trying to convince themselves that it's ok, there's a word for these types of people....




COWARDS

 

I'm a little confused on what you mean by this

 

Yes i would
- thats just me i dont give many fucks for people i dont know.

thats just my thoughts when i read it.

but you guess need to stop making excuses for saying yes

the choice is based on 100% greed and selfish thoughts

 

It's a matter of sacrifice... you can use one million pounds to save 10,000 people with effeciency.. take a look at a charity like the Amma foundation, which has built houses, sheltered orphans, and provided medical servers for hundreds of thousands of people world wide..... www.amma.org this is just one example of many charities which have demonstrated humanitarian success...., It is inevitably just to save 10,000 for one, yet it depends upon the man whose life is taken, and what merit he has in this world...., to kill a saint to save a thousand beggars would be unjust if the saint will aid 10,000 more......

To make a choice like this you really have to understand death, you have to understand that these same powers will one day take your own life away from you, and this is the reality of the universe we live in.... your blood will return to the sea, and your bones will return to the earth.... this is natural... It is a warriors mentality, to realize that it is acceptable to take life in order to preserve and protect the reality of this world...., as your life will one day be taken....

The capistalist system which founded money is based on the exploitation of nature and the desecration of life, including the genocide of humanity and the destruction of nature which has resulted in millions of species becoming extinct, hundreds of millions of years of genetic code have been obliterated in a period of 100 years with the industrial and technological revolution....., for a million pounds to exist, trillions of lives in the entire biosphere have already been taken to create this.... it is all illusion.

The entire monetary system in it's modern ingenuity is founded in war and human suffering.... the federal reserve which had it's hand in the infiltration of nearly every country and implementation of economics made partnerships with military officials and politicians in order to ensure control could be maintained over the majority of the human species.....

That kind of cash is already soaked in blood, in it's creation, regardless of your ethics..... yet to be correct, so is life in it's many facets... We all eat living things to survive, and we come into this world covered in our mothers essence...., this is natural in this world.....

Love & Light...

 

Im debating to take it or not, the one human could be myself :x

 

In fact, that would be interesting!
Didn't think of that one lol, but who would get the 1 million than uh?

Oh please, are you that naive? They kill people for a cellphone or a sigaret these days..
The good old and friendly days are gone. And thats because everybody has it too good and doesn't know what respect isn't anymore.

But I wouldn't care less about a life in return for 1 million pounds. That one million pounds could do a whole more good than one life.

 

No, you're the naive one. "They" - Who is "They"?

You're only reinforcing my point in the second part by saying values have dissipated in society.

Despite that, you're last part is completely redundant and is basically just a straw-man argument.

"I wouldn't care less about a life in return for 1 million pounds" - Because your values are just as you say society's have gone. If you profess to know who acknowledges respect, then why go on to contradict yourself inherently, unless of course you're basically saying YOU yourself don't respect people..

In addition, "That one million pounds could do a whole good more than one life." is completely stupid. You don't know WHO you'll kill, whether it's some jailed-for-life waster or the latest major political activist. Also, if people in today's world have dropped their standards enough to kill somebody for a cellphone or 'sigaret' then it only proves my own point.

Learn the definition of naive before writing a completely contradictory pile of junk

 

This scenario is ridiculous.

1) How does taking a briefcase of cash kill someone? Do you mean to say that if I take the suitcase, the guy will go and kill someone himself?

2) And what does 'at random mean' ? Surely if I take the money in new york, the "random" person isn't going to be in Africa?...

3) How does this "random" person die?

4) What's stopping me from taking the briefcase and calling the police on this guy?

5) If I don't take the deal, will he offer it to someone else? If so, then this 'random' person's death is inevitable. Someone is eventually going to take the deal.

6) You say that it's knowingly my fault that this 'random' person is going to die. That's wrong. Someone else's actions are not accountable for my own.


--- > In a nutshell: You didn't think this scenario out, and it is a little more than retarded that anyone (including myself) is even talking about such a thing.

This belongs in the SPAM section, not in SFA.

/thread.

Edit: And I guess for the sake of not getting reported for spam, YES- I WOULD TAKE THE MONEY.