The Box

vallyhoo

IHO the new Cameron Diaz movie- if you were given the opportunity to push a button and receive $1,000,000 but as a consequence someone in the world would die... would you do it?

[Deleted User]

Not unless it was my ex husband that would die.

kate51485

Nope

SwedishChick2011

no way

vallyhoo

Cew! No conditions on who the person could be. :P

Sooles

thats tough. cuz that doesnt sound significant seeing as all over the world... how many people die each day? can the person who dies be someone who wants to because theyre slowly dying of aids and in pain? is it some serial murderer or some poor kid's mommy? too many questions.i wouldnt do it, because i would torture myself with guilt.

buttaflai

Can you choose who dies? If so, maybe yes, but I'd look for a someone who is suffering in illness and wants to go.

scoetto

Can we pick the person? Just kidding. I wouldn't - no, couldn't - do it.

[Deleted User]

Then no. I wouldn't do it.

Nebb

There seems to be a lot of running around in that movie, so it surely cant be as simple as pushing a button and someone dying. I would say no, just because I dont enjoy running for my life.

[Deleted User]

I dont enjoy runningSuper this

betrothed123

Nope.  I couldn't live with the guilt of knowing I was responsible for another person's death.

tidetravel

In the grand scheme of things, a million dollars isn't that much.  Not worth it.  Now, if it were $100 million, that may be different...  No.  Still couldn't do it.  I believe in karma too much to.  The money would be cursed.

Nebb

Quit twisting my words cew!!! I dont not enjoy running, i dont enjoy running *for my life*. Thats an entirely different form of running.

Mrs.C-To-Be

What if you pushed the button, and then you were the one who dies?  That would officially suck.Regardless of who would die, my answer is no.

SwedishChick2011

There seems to be a lot of running around in that movie, so it surely cant be as simple as pushing a button and someone dying. Maybe someone dies, which then causes some terrible chain of events or something.

kikibaby

Noooo way.

Nebb

I HATE terrible chains of events. Those are the worst.

Soon-to-be Mrs. Vogt

No, H pointed out that what if I gave the go-ahead and then they killed him? Or one of our friends/family?Plus, I couldn't live with myself, but I definitely wouldn't take that risk, for any amount of money.

[Deleted User]

Me too Nebb. I just can't stand stressful movies period. I think that's why I don't like Zombie movies. It's just too much pressure. I've always said that if my life was a disaster movie, I'd want to die early. I'm not interested in all that running around and surviving.

Nebb

The terror of running and being chased is way too much for me, ditto cew.

[Deleted User]

Nebb - can we die early together? Holding eachother.

Nebb

Not if someone pushes the button, and youre it.

[Deleted User]

Oooh. Good point. Shiit.

georgia_bride09

I couldn't; the guilt would be crippling. P.S.-- not what I was expecting from the title of the thread.

[Deleted User]

georgia - you just made me snot from laughing. Box is my favorite name for the vag.

vallyhoo

Now you've ruined the word 'box' just like you ruined BPH. Tsk tsk.

georgia_bride09

Wait... what's BPH?

betrothed123

In that way, one can die but he can save thousands of lives with that moneyBut what if the person you killed would have otherwise cured cancer, or made some other huge species altering change?

ButtonsPepper

When I think of this, I think of batman, when the joker gave two boats a button to hit, blowing the other boat up to save the lives of themselves. I couldn't even push the button then... let alone for 1 million dollars. Even for my own life, I couldn't be responsible of someone else randomly dying.

gkb0910

Wait... what's BPH? big puffy heart