Should You Press The Button?
You may know the infamous million-dollar button problem. In this story, I try to answer the question: should you press it?
The problem is this: there is a big, red, fat, sexy, tempting button. If you press it within the next 24 hours, you will get one million dollars.
But one random person will die. It could be anyone, except those you care about. Their death won’t affect your life in any way. Nobody will know what you did.
Will you press the button?
This problem has become so popular that they even made a movie about it, The Box, and a Twilight Zone episode before that.
If you are like the majority of people, the answer will be… yes, you will press it. 63% would. Just take a look here at the comments.
When I was first introduced to this problem and read some comments, I thought it was just dark humor, and I was fine with that. When I realized that most people were for real, and they would actually press that button, I was horrified.
I don’t mean to be a preacher, nor am I a saint myself, but damn. How could anyone with a moral standard do this?
