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Enid · 11-12-2009, 01:30 PM

Here is the situation. There is a big fat red button right in the centre of a small room you are standing in. You know that if you press this button you will net yourself £1,000,000. You can press this button as many times as you like, each giving you the same amount of cash, but in doing so there is 1/10,000 chance one of your closest relatives or partner will die every time you press it.

Do you take the risk and press the button? If so, how many times? Or if not, what if the situation was different and only people who you didn't know could die instead?

Think about the situation carefully before answering please.

setanta · 11-12-2009, 01:36 PM

You twisted little puppy. Ha ha.

Enid · 11-12-2009, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by setanta

You twisted little puppy. Ha ha.

Answer the god damn questions!

NettoSuperstar! · 11-12-2009, 01:39 PM

no

InOne · 11-12-2009, 01:42 PM

Probably yeah. I'm an awful person and don't really have emotional attachments to people.

Niamh. · 11-12-2009, 01:44 PM

No, I wouldn't be able to live with the guilt lol

Enid · 11-12-2009, 01:45 PM

I wouldn't push the button if I knew one of my family members or partner would die, absolutely not. But I'd push it till I was a bazillionaire, if I knew only random people would die. I'd be too busy drinking champaign to feel any guilt.

Niamh. · 11-12-2009, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Enid

I wouldn't push the button if I knew one of my family members or partner would die, absolutely not. But I'd push it till I was a bazillionaire, if I knew only random people would die. I'd be too busy drinking campaign to feel any guilt.

setanta · 11-12-2009, 01:50 PM

I couldn't do it, no.

Niamh. · 11-12-2009, 01:52 PM

I'd do it if I could pick the people who would die lol

Stephanie · 11-12-2009, 01:53 PM

i would push it once.

Enid · 11-12-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephanie

i would push it once.

Would you not be tempted to push it again though?

Stephanie · 11-12-2009, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Enid

Would you not be tempted to push it again though?

i'm not sure, maybe.

WOMBAI · 11-12-2009, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephanie

i would push it once.

That might be ok if Olly is the one that cops it!

Stephanie · 11-12-2009, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by WOMBAI

That might be ok if Olly is the one that cops it!

lmao

Maia · 11-12-2009, 01:55 PM

No I wouldn't push it at all. Money isn't everything...

Tom · 11-12-2009, 02:04 PM

Once

Captain.Remy · 11-12-2009, 02:11 PM

Oscar Wilde once said: 'The best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it' so I'd definitely push it once. So I'd get a million. But what can you do with a million today ? Not much anylonger.
And after all, it's only a 1/10,000 chance so I could push it plenty if times before someone I love dies.

And to people who say money isn't everything, go and tell that to a blue collar worker who kills his ass off to earn barely £1000 per month. You'll see what he tells you.

To me, money is everything. It might not buy love, yet you feel much better when you have money OR if money doesn't buy happiness, then give it to me, I want to be unhappy.

Tom · 11-12-2009, 02:14 PM

^ Money does buy happiness, thats a load of bollocks those who say it doesn't. It buys peace of mind, which in turn makes you happy.

Captain.Remy · 11-12-2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom

^ Money does buy happiness, thats a load of bollocks those who say it doesn't. It buys peace of mind, which in turn makes you happy.

The truth.

I'm quite happy with the situation my parents are in, they both are great jobs, I was never in need of anything so people who think I'd have been more happy with less money are definitely wrong.

Twilight · 11-12-2009, 02:30 PM

No i love my family to much<3 But if it was gonna people i haven't met that died then yes alot till i got something:P

Enid · 11-12-2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain.Remy

Oscar Wilde once said: 'The best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it' so I'd definitely push it once. So I'd get a million. But what can you do with a million today ? Not much anylonger.
And after all, it's only a 1/10,000 chance so I could push it plenty if times before someone I love dies.

And to people who say money isn't everything, go and tell that to a blue collar worker who kills his ass off to earn barely £1000 per month. You'll see what he tells you.

To me, money is everything. It might not buy love, yet you feel much better when you have money OR if money doesn't buy happiness, then give it to me, I want to be unhappy.

I agree Remy. Money is very important and I believe it does buy happiness or at least it rids of a lot of worry and problems we face today. I think many people would be tempted to push this button more than once. We are greedy after all.

bananarama · 12-12-2009, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Enid

I agree Remy. Money is very important and I believe it does buy happiness or at least it rids of a lot of worry and problems we face today. I think many people would be tempted to push this button more than once. We are greedy after all.

Money is very important yes and it "can" buy happiness but is not garaunteed too....... Money cnnot buy you out of an agonising terminal illness........Money cannot buy genuine friends.......Money can attract criminals in your direction as people who have had their children held to ransom and killed would testify......

In short it is foolish and short sighted to believe money is the road to happiness....... At the end of the day happiness is in the mind and not the state of your bank balance.....

Tiger woods is rolling in it. Is he a happy bunny at the mo........Money can and often does bring quite the opposite to hapiness........

To bring it back on topic if the button was pressed and a dear one was lost the rich sole would have to live with the fact that in effect it was murder of a loved one for gain.........Some happiness.....And what a monster that so called happy one would be......

setanta · 11-12-2009, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain.Remy

Oscar Wilde once said: 'The best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it' so I'd definitely push it once. So I'd get a million. But what can you do with a million today ? Not much anylonger.
And after all, it's only a 1/10,000 chance so I could push it plenty if times before someone I love dies.

And to people who say money isn't everything, go and tell that to a blue collar worker who kills his ass off to earn barely £1000 per month. You'll see what he tells you.

To me, money is everything. It might not buy love, yet you feel much better when you have money OR if money doesn't buy happiness, then give it to me, I want to be unhappy.

It buys you comfort maybe, but not if there's no peace of mind there to begin with. You'd be surprised at how many grumpy or dissatisfied people who end up winning money fall back into the habit of being grumpy or depressed.

Captain.Remy · 11-12-2009, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by setanta

It buys you comfort maybe, but not if there's no peace of mind there to begin with. You'd be surprised at how many grumpy or dissatisfied people who end up winning money fall back into the habit of being grumpy or depressed.

So do sports man, celebrities etc...but it's only because they couldn't manage all of this. A lot of people are VERY VERY rich yet you don't hear from them as they don't expose themselves and they live quite happily.
What you need is a good financial adviser (I can give you my Dad's phone number if you want lol), some lost beach in Oceania, a nice girlfriend and that's it.

People need to stop thinking life is like a romantic movie. Life is a porn film.

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