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If you could push a button that gives you a hundred thousand dollars but a random person dies, would you do it? 

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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

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    i mean, give me a 90% chance of kills me and i’m still pressing the button.

    Hell, give me a 100% chance. That’d solve more of my problems than any amount of money.