Someone breaks into your home. You are suddenly presented with the firearm of your choice and $5000 by the elder gods.
You can give the $5000 to the person, knowing (through elder god knowledge) that if you give him the $5000 you've just received he will leave peacefully and never return to rob you again. Or you can use your gun to shoot the person, knowing (again, through elder god knowledge) that he will die in one shot, that you will not be prosecuted, and that you will not need to clean your upholstery or dispose of the body. If you do this, the $5000 is yours to keep.
Assume the person intended to break into your house, will kill you before you can escape, hide, or call the police if you don't kill him, but otherwise has no hostile intent towards you.
Do you do it?
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Taking a second to rationalize this while browsing GameFAQs in my nice safe house, I'd like to think that I would give him the money. In the actual situation, I may be filled with enough rage to shoot. Hard to say.
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Or better yet, one of those bubble gun things. He'd die after a single bubble touching him. I think the hilarity of the situation would trump the emotional trauma.
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From: PartOfYourWorld | #016 Taking a second to rationalize this while browsing GameFAQs in my nice safe house, I'd like to think that I would give him the money. In the actual situation, I may be filled with enough rage to shoot. Hard to say.
The elder gods have given you 5 minutes to consider your course of action, magically stopping time through elder god powers to allow you to think.
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From: Lopen | #020 The elder gods have given you 5 minutes to consider your course of action, magically stopping time through elder god powers to allow you to think.
Then I'd probably give him the money, especially if the same gods have decreed that he is to suffer for one minute if I shoot him.
I'm nonviolent and I feel guilt pretty easily, which is admittedly surprising given the cultures I was born and raised into.
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I think I've mistakenly turned this into a joke topic with all my talk of the elder gods... not really the intent, unfortunately, but I'm just that funny I guess. <_<
This was actually an interesting question for me, though! Me personally, I'd have more reservations doing this than the bat thing since you're actually killing someone who might not otherwise die-- you're just serving as the executioner in the other one.
I mean I'd take the money either way but just saying.
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Is the firearm legally registered in my name and I somehow have the credentials to own it, or do I get into all sorts of trouble for using an unlicensed gun like that?
Also, do I get to keep the gun afterwards regardless of choice?
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the dilemma here to me doesn't really have to do with the money; I'd feel like **** if he took my money and went down the street to a different house. the fact that he 'intended' my house makes him seem like a relatively serious criminal and he's at least willing to kill me, who he doesn't even know...
yeah, i'll kill him. the money's a nice little bonus i could use right now. i wouldn't pick the $5000 over 'curing him of criminalness,' though.
If I give him the money and I am guaranteed that he'll never rob anyone again? Like, absolutely, by the gods, guarantee? I'd give him the money and let him go.
Without that assurance?
Kill him.
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The elder gods probably spontaneously created this guy for this hypothetical situation and so after he departs with the money will have no purpose in life. I wouldn't be surprised if he were dead within a month anyway.
Yeah, no assurance, but $5000 goes a long way. If he's the type that's robbing to get by he might take it and try to fix his life with it.
Assume that this is a real person. The elder gods only gave you foresight to the coming situation and the tools to deal with it-- they did not force the man to rob you. They are benevolent gods and would never do this.
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It wasn't the elder god, it was the any gun works clause. If it's a standard firearm that guarantees that he will be incapacitated while he suffers for a minute then dies we reach your intended question.
But I'll take a gun that shoots bank accounts of the wealthy too.
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All joking aside, a robber doesn't deserve death, and this scenario is actually giving me a way to make sure we both escape his robbery unharmed. In a normal robbery without the old gods, I might shoot him out of self defense - how am I supposed to know whether he's packing or whether he'll shoot at me if he discovers my presence? Here, I can let him get away. Sure, it sucks to give a petty criminal five grand, but I'd rather do that than kill a petty criminal who doesn't deserve it.
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yeah, I'd ricochet the bullet into him, he knew the risks when he decided to break in
From: MrsFrisby | #033 The elder gods probably spontaneously created this guy for this hypothetical situation and so after he departs with the money will have no purpose in life. I wouldn't be surprised if he were dead within a month anyway.
this is also a good point - all this elder god knowledge is de-humanizing enough that I can treat him as a scenario and not even feel that guilty about it.
From: PartOfYourWorld | #036 All joking aside, a robber doesn't deserve death, and this scenario is actually giving me a way to make sure we both escape his robbery unharmed. In a normal robbery without the old gods, I might shoot him out of self defense - how am I supposed to know whether he's packing or whether he'll shoot at me if he discovers my presence? Here, I can let him get away. Sure, it sucks to give a petty criminal five grand, but I'd rather do that than kill a petty criminal who doesn't deserve it.
But the thing is, the guy is willing and actively trying to kill you. If you give him the $5000, what's to stop him from breaking into your neighbor's house and trying to kill them? It worked so well for him the first time after all. And odds are, they won't have protection from the elder gods on their side.
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But the thing is, the guy is willing and actively trying to kill you. If you give him the $5000, what's to stop him from breaking into your neighbor's house and trying to kill them? It worked so well for him the first time after all. And odds are, they won't have protection from the elder gods on their side.
Hopefully the $5000 would get him through whatever crisis he was in that required him to rob people's houses. If not, well, killing him would definitely result in someone dying while the other way probably would not. The neighbor may not be home, or the neighbor might not resist, or the neighbor could overpower him, etc.
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From: DigitalIncision | #043 I'd kill him in a heartbeat. I wouldn't do the other one that was posted. This one, easily.
This mindset intrigues me.
You do realize in this one you're actually killing a person rather than merely serving as the executioner, right? You do realize that in the other one the criminal "earned" their death to a greater extent (if you're of the mindset that death can be earned) due to being a murderer rather than a petty criminal, right?
I think it's odd for someone to take this scenario as the more light one to bear, and easily at that.
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You do realize in this one you're actually killing a person rather than merely serving as the executioner, right? You do realize that in the other one the criminal "earned" their death to a greater extent due to being a murderer rather than a petty criminal, right?
I think it's odd for someone to take this scenario as the more light one to bear, and easily at that.
Your position is completely logical. But I can much more easily imagine myself shooting someone to death than clubbing his skull with a baseball bat. It's dumb but that's how it is.
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