Big Red Button

There's a big red button on the table in front you.
Every time you press it, you get one million euro but a random person in the world dies.
You will never know who or how.

How many times would you press it?

My name is URL

Just the once, a million would be loads

sure everytime I hit the space bar some randomer dies

rizzee

12 times

Just thinking, I'd press it everytime I made a post on boards..

I'd have an opinion on absolutely everything.

KnifeWRENCH

I'd get one of those water drinking birds to constantly press it! :P

FunkZ

Lives are lost everytime I self please or use a condom! I'd press it 666 just for effect!

RMD

I'd create some device that hits it 1 million times, be the worlds first trillionare. I'd compensate each family with a 1/10th of my new found riches to even out the whole fiasco.

phasers

6 billion

callaway92

134526 times

My name is URL

RMD wrote: »

I'd create some device that hits it 1 million times, be the worlds first trillionare. I'd compensate each family with a 1/10th of my new found riches to even out the whole fiasco.

The Rothschild family are said to be worth $400 Trillion

Basq

Deleted User wrote: »

How many times would you press it?

Until the randomness hit these 5 people!

Neamhshuntasach

I'd just set it on fire. I fúcking loathe big red buttons. Useless shower of cúnts.

Basq

[logic]

It's a flawed argument anyways..

.. you could only press it X amount of times, where X would be it killing you!

[/logic]

Spore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVZW684QcOU

You press it then some other clown is given the opportunity thus killing you, there's a message in there somewhere.

CreepingDeath

I'd press it a few times to start off, then come back to it as needed like my own magic ATM machine.

Sofaspud

You stole that from the film "the button" which I saw a trailer of a while ago!

Except her dilemma was "if you press this you'll get a million . . . . but someone will die!"

You're clearly sadistic fcukers trying to decide how many times you'd press it!

Me? I'd probably only press it 10 or 20 times. Or drum along to a Rush song on it for a while.

mikom

Deleted User wrote: »

There's a big red button on the table in front you.
Every time you press it, you get one million euro but a random person in the world dies.
You will never know who or how.

How many times would you press it?

If its anything like that annoying fart button I see littered throughout the internet, then I just smash it with a hammer.
They can shove their million Euro.

Snowie

allways push the big red button why wouldnt ya ?

Wertz

It depends...where is the money actually coming from...I couldn't give a flying f*ck if one of our ever increasing 6 billion snuffs it, but I'd hate to think that my new found wealth was impacting on the global economic strain or leading to a rise in inflationary pressures...

Saibh

Don't think I will be pressing any red button - that random person could be me!

WeWillBeReborn

How much would it cost to buy Liverpool FC off of those American idiots?

minidazzler

I would hit it 50 times.

€50 million and I would feel very comfortable for the rest of my life.

Davidius

This really depends, is the pressing of the button actually linked to the death of somebody or is it that it just so happens that whenever I press the button, somebody who was going to die at that time anyway dies?

minidazzler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKnhOJ-R80

mikom

How about a button that delivers €100 every time you push it........ but every push takes one day off your life.

Oh, hold on that's just called having a job.

Joey the lips

3.14 it seems now i can have my pie and eat it!

Wertz

Oh, oh....if I only lightly press it, could we have it that I get €0.5 million and the random death is downgraded to say, a serious, but treatable illness or debilitation? Perhaps merely the loss of a limb or something?

KTRIC

43 times

laugh

No times, knowing my luck the random person would be me.

PirateShampoo

RMD wrote: »

I'd create some device that hits it 1 million times, be the worlds first trillionare. I'd compensate each family with a 1/10th of my new found riches to even out the whole fiasco.

Considering that the Earths population is to be a estimated 6.794 billion, you're going to come to point when you press the button and a big giant thumb will reach down from the sky and squash you.

edit, i need to learn math lol

citizen_p

id press it anytime i needed money.....a person dies every couple of seconds.... whats 1 more to the total

enniscorthy

ok yes that would be fine see u then regards brian

bnt

A few dozen times. After all, random people are dying, all over the world, all the time, and one day my number will come up.

We're more than capable of replenishing the numbers. For example, almost 230,000 people died due to the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami - a major disaster. The Earth's population is currently growing by over 217,000 per day. (Source GeoHive).

bonerjams03

CreepingDeath wrote: »

I'd press it a few times to start off, then come back to it as needed like my own magic ATM machine.

Its just ATM.... you may say AT Machine if you really want to.

I'm not some Grammar Nazi. Just hate that particular thing.

And, I'd press the button many, many times. I'd probably use some of my vast wealth to buy more buttons.

Max Power1

1 million.

If i could direct some of the randomness to the hoodie,tracksuit and peaked cap wearing scumbags that live near me that would make it all the sweeter

Horsefumbler

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

I'd get one of those water drinking birds to constantly press it! :P

If u had just posted the link and said nothing else you would have got more lols

TheDoc

basquille wrote: »

Until the randomness hit these 5 people!

I'll press it until I get you...and the ginger one

jif

you cant not press a big red button, just ask this man

RandolphEsq

My name is URL wrote: »

The Rothschild family are said to be worth $400 Trillion

Zionist loving corrupt bloodline

bailefionn

IRcolm wrote: »

Its just ATM.... you may say AT Machine if you really want to.

I'm not some Grammar Nazi. Just hate that particular thing.

So unecessary..

bonerjams03

bailefionn wrote: »

So unecessary..

I dunno...

You're pretty unnecessary though.

Correcting your spelling wasn't that necessary at all seeing as I don't really care about it... But I just thought I would, mainly because your post was just as "unecessary" as mine was, if not more; because I actually responded to the thread, whereas as you posted solely to point out what you see as a mistake of someone else.

Which sort of makes you an unnecessary hypocrite.

Anyway.

Get off my Lawn Grammer Nazis

bonerjams03

I'm not an R-tard...

I mean I'm not a grammar Nazi...

Tar.Aldarion

0

bailefionn

IRcolm wrote: »

I dunno...

You're pretty unnecessary though.

Correcting your spelling wasn't that necessary at all seeing as I don't really care about it... But I just thought I would, mainly because your post was just as "unecessary" as mine was, if not more; because I actually responded to the thread, whereas as you posted solely to point out what you see as a mistake of someone else.

Which sort of makes you an unnecessary hypocrite.

Anyway.

Id press the button a **** load of times. Man your a loser

Coriolanus

RMD wrote: »

I'd create some device that hits it 1 million times, be the worlds first trillionare. I'd compensate each family with a 1/10th of my new found riches to even out the whole fiasco.

How would that work. You've pressed it 1m times, so potentially have 1m families to compensate?

Anyway, I'd keep pressing it until someone I know died. I'd imagine only that level of remorse would keep me from doing it again and again.

wolfric

I'm quite amazed the idea got this far. It was created as a short film called the black button or the big button (about 5 mins long). Then it got made into a proper film... Think it was better as a short film though.

Corkfeen

Six Billion times, finally some privacy.

fergalr

While there's a thought experiment going on....
Consider, to thicken the plot:

How many lives could you save with 1million euro?
What if you donated all of it to a charity that saved lives by providing life saving vaccinations for a couple of euro each?

You could just push it once, give, say, half the money to charity, and have net saved tens of thousands of lives, and still be rich.
You could even do this many times.


So, surely... it'd be wrong *not* to push the button?

:pac:

Lux23

Twice.

I could do alot with two million quid.

I suppose you would go straight to hell though it there is such a place.

Ann22

If someone was going to die just because I pressed the button and not about to die anyway, I'd never push it. Imagine someone you love dropping dead 'cos someone pressed a button to get a big load of dosh. The money would be great but I'd never have peace of mind again:(.
Fergalr's comment was good, imagine if you could donate it to save loads of lives, feck I'm not going to think about this anymore.