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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

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Most normal people it would be a hard no

    You have a lot more faith in humans than I do. If nobody would know, I’d be shocked if more than 50% said no.