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      I was thinking of the things a person would do for a basically infinite amount of money.

      Here is the situation:

      You must complete one of the following to receive 100 billion dollars.

      (A) Push a button that kills a billion people randomly. (This might include you, or your family&#33
      (B) Murder your entire immediate family and best friends with a 100% guarantee that you’ll get away with it.
      © Have an orgy with your immediate family that must last at least 5 hours. (No drugs or anything beforehand so you don't remember it)
      (D) Spend 10 years in a tough prison like Chino state prison or Rykers Island.
      (E) Cut of your own legs and eat them entirely (bone excluded). (No, you can't cook them.)

      Or would you opt out not to take the money and not do any of these horrible things?



      Myself, I'd go with option D. I'd look at it as a job I can retire from in 10 years (I'd be 25 by then) with a basically infinite amount of money. And I'd try not to get raped by an HIV-Positive inmate.

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      Quote Originally Posted by FreshBrains View Post
      And I'd try not to get raped by an HIV-Positive inmate.
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      you'd try not to but you probably would.

      All those things are way to horrible to do. Except prison but a Max. Security prison like Chino scares me.

      I'm happy with what i've got.

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      I would not kill any innocent people for my own personal gain, especially anybody in my family. Anybody who could actually enjoy life after doing that, even with 100 billion dollars, is a flat out sociopath. Nobody with a conscience would do that for any amount of money. I wouldn't be able to enjoy the 100 billion dollars after doing any of those things except the prison thing, which I would not choose. I would not throw away the next ten years of my life for any amount of money, especially when my life could be ruined permanently in that time. My legs are more important to me than money. An orgy with my family would wreck my life and theirs, so forget that one. I wouldn't consider any of those options for even two seconds.

      However, short of destroying the lives of myself or the innocent and losing a substantial amount of my own life, I would do pretty much anything else for that money.
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      I think the real question is:

      What would you do for a Klondike Bar?
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      Quote Originally Posted by ExoByte View Post
      I think the real question is:

      What would you do for a Klondike Bar?
      [/b]

      How many Klondike bars would that buy?

      Money is the root of all evil. So if I did not perform an act to get that much money I would most likely end up doing bad things anyway.
      So I vote no.


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      Quote Originally Posted by Howetzer View Post

      Money is the root of all evil.

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      "The love of money is the root of all evil." (No offense... just wanted to point out this commonly mis-quoted phrase.)

      I wouldn't take the money. I can make a difference in the world without 100 billion dollars. And as much as my mind says it's stupid, I think that no truer joy can come to you than from something you have accomplished yourself, without having to resort to wealth or power. There's more I'll leave unsaid, but you can fill in the blanks.

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      I guess my soul is more important than 100 billion dollars.. (I just couldn't live with myself if I performed some of those acts).

      I would take a pass on the money.

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      (A) Push a button that kills a billion people randomly. (This might include you, or your family&#33[/b]
      If it didn't include me, sure! I'd press it several times if I get paid double!

      (B) Murder your entire immediate family and best friends with a 100% guarantee that you’ll get away with it.[/b]
      Sure.

      © Have an orgy with your immediate family that must last at least 5 hours. (No drugs or anything beforehand so you don't remember it)[/b]
      Sure. (Do they remember it? Lawsuits these days mean a lot of money). And I can pay for the shrink if I need it afterwards.

      (D) Spend 10 years in a tough prison like Chino state prison or Rykers Island.[/b]
      No. 10 years of my life is worth more than that.

      (E) Cut of your own legs and eat them entirely (bone excluded). (No, you can't cook them.)[/b]
      No. The ability to move is worth more than that.

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      um i'd go with option 1.... the world is overpopulated anyway

      No, actually faced with that choice I'd say no.

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      nope

      I can tell what I would do for that much money however ...
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      Theres no point in having the money if you can't enjoy it, like cutting off your legs or having a family orgy or murder or being in prision. So that pretty much covers everything you said.
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      Errr.... by the way, if you actually possessed a magic button that killed a billion people, wouldn&#39;t it just be easier to ransom the world for amounts of money where 100 billion seems small. The USA alone doesn&#39;t look at 100 billion dollars and think "holy shit&#33; that&#39;s way too much than we have&#33;" (even though we are trillions in debt... we spend billions on the war all the time)

      And those are kind of ridiculous "options" anyways.

      The only one that is *kind of* not retarded is the prison one, but wouldn&#39;t you rather like... have a life?

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      I would chose option A if I and my close ones were guaranteed survival. I don&#39;t care much for a billion unknown people. Besides, the World needs to be depopulated.

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      I seriously wouldn&#39;t choose any of the options. Like someone mentioned whats the use of having the money if you simply cannot enjoy it.

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      (E) I&#39;d buy myself a new pair...

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      Most of the questions aren&#39;t hard: I would not do Any of those things just for money.

      However, if you think of it, you can cure world poverty with that money. Basically, I would do all those crappy things, and make the world a better place.

      If I could just keep the money myself, and not give it away, I wouldn&#39;t do any of those things. If that doesn&#39;t make me sound as McGandhi, I don&#39;t know what does.
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      The only option I would consider would be the prison one. The reason is because I could tell everyone in prison that if they leave me alone, I will give each of them 1 million dollars If I get out alive, and if there is some people in there who I cannot pay because they are in for life then I would just promise more money to other people to protect me from them.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Redeyedwolfking View Post
      The only option I would consider would be the prison one. The reason is because I could tell everyone in prison that if they leave me alone, I will give each of them 1 million dollars If I get out alive, and if there is some people in there who I cannot pay because they are in for life then I would just promise more money to other people to protect me from them.[/b]
      TRUE&#33; I&#39;d go for this option. Good thinking&#33;

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      Quote Originally Posted by Redeyedwolfking View Post
      The only option I would consider would be the prison one. The reason is because I could tell everyone in prison that if they leave me alone, I will give each of them 1 million dollars If I get out alive, and if there is some people in there who I cannot pay because they are in for life then I would just promise more money to other people to protect me from them.
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      D or E, they do not have consequences on anyone other than myself. Think of it though, what kind of prosthetics or wheelchairs could 0.5% of that sum buy?
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      If I chose D, then I would be loosing 10 years of my life, to me those 10 years are extremely valueable, and im not sure I would be willing to give them up for anything.

      And E, you would die from loss of blood.

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      I would choose B

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      Option D, for sure.
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      I would go with C, D, and E, since, while perhaps traumatic...that&#39;s a crapload of money, and you&#39;d be stupid not to. Plus, who needs legs when you can fund your own experimental projects for replacing legs (and I&#39;m not big on moving anyways; not having legs would just give me an excuse to be a lazy ass).

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      oh this ones easy. i would do the jail time in a heartbeat for that much money. no fuckin doubt
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