Poll of the Day > Would you kill yourself to save a million people?

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Random people you dont actually know who

It would also be public knowledge you didnt take the fall if you said no

What methods are allotted to me? All of them? Then sure. If I just have to make do with whatever I have on hand right now, we're gonna have some problems lol.

https://youtu.be/zTX3st2ClUA?si=_rAAYrs70ZrpTcm5

Is this the evolution of the "train problem"

Fuck no

if Im dead who cares

Depends on the million people in question. So probably not.

I would say that I would, but when it comes time to do it, I'm not sure if I would be able to do it, especially when I have a low tolerance for pain. I think it would depend who the 1,000,000 people are.

Sure, if it's an instant painless death. I don't have much going for me.

coyot posted...

Nah, I have some other skills that save millions. *breakdances*

You're that one Australian lady, yeah?

Unfortunately.

Probably not.

no

No. And looking around the world right now, there's not much worth saving.

Nah

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

No. And looking around the world right now, there's not much worth saving.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a3ba61b7.jpg

I would not take the chance that my sacrifice results in saving 1 million assholes.

we_dey posted...

public knowledge

Wouldn't I be concerned with a grief-ridden mob trying to vie for my skin afterwards?

we_dey posted...

It would also be public knowledge you didnt take the fall if you said no

This would actually make me less willing to do it.

Because I would assume...

EclairReturns posted...

Wouldn't I be concerned with a grief-ridden mob trying to vie for my skin afterwards?

...that this would happen.

Which would make me proactively say "Man, fuck those people, they don't deserve to be saved."

If it wasn't completely random people, and if there was no risk of being judged for saying no, I'd probably be more inclined to say yes.

EclairReturns posted...

Wouldn't I be concerned with a grief-ridden mob trying to vie for my skin afterwards?

Could I threaten them with not-killing-myself again to take out a million of that grieving mob?

Yeah I'm obviously fucking dead.

Good things are good and bad things are bad.

I'll never take my own life.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Which would make me proactively say "Man, f*** those people, they don't deserve to be saved."

To be fair, the issue with that is less that you're specifically positioned to save a million vengeance-obsessed assholes and more that when you're dealing with a million families you're pretty inevitably going to find a significant number of people that are willing to come after you for choosing to doom their loved one. Even as few as 10-20 of your victims having more vengeful families would be enough pissed off people to put you in serious danger, which says nothing about the remaining 999,980 (and also nothing of the victims themselves, since remember that it's not the people dying that are going to consider coming after you).

MICHALECOLE posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a3ba61b7.jpg

No edge. We humans are speed running our own extinction by way of profound greed and ignorance, and we all only have 1 life to live. So why the hell would anyone sacrifice themselves for 1 million randos?it's idiotic.

Their families, it would spread more misery if they died after being born already.

adjl posted...

To be fair, the issue with that is less that you're specifically positioned to save a million vengeance-obsessed assholes and more that when you're dealing with a million families you're pretty inevitably going to find a significant number of people that are willing to come after you for choosing to doom their loved one.

Yeah, but I'm adding to the overall general suffering of the sort of people who are inclined to become vengeance-driven monsters, so I still get to be smug about it. "If you weren't the sort of person who would do this, you wouldn't have needed to do this."

It's like reverse Utilitarianism combined with victim blaming. And it validates my existing misanthropy. It's the total narcissist boner cocktail.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

No edge. We humans are speed running our own extinction by way of profound greed and ignorance, and we all only have 1 life to live. So why the hell would anyone sacrifice themselves for 1 million randos?it's idiotic.

Pororin need the chaos emeralds!

Hell no I like my life and I hate people. As George Carlin roughly said, persons are ok, people suck

I'll not kill myself and save 2 million people through good deeds

There's over 8 million people on earth. That's more than enough.

Sorry, dudes, but no.

I got people in my life who need me too

No.

If I die, then 8 billion people cease to exist.

Yeah I think so. If it's a million random people that would for sure include a lot of children and babies and I couldn't live with myself knowing that i could have saved a bunch of babies and didn't. Also the chances are slim but that million could potentially include some of your own family. About 1 out of couple thousand odds that one could be your immediate family

Depends who those 1 million people are. At one point I would have without a doubt, but now I probably wouldn't because they're probably not worth it.

Nope

I have a like/tolerate relationship with "people". To save a million? Probably would, since I'm not that important.