THE BOX

[eugmac]

For all those who said they would donate the money to do enough good to make up for the one guaranteed lost life - what's to say that the owner of the $40 million wouldn't have done the same should you not accept the money? The chances that he will do good for society (maybe because his faith in it is restored by you saying no) with the $40 mill is non-zero, and nobody needs to be purposely killed.

[Alexos]

For all those who said they would donate the money to do enough good to make up for the one guaranteed lost life - what's to say that the owner of the $40 million wouldn't have done the same should you not accept the money? The chances that he will do good for society (maybe because his faith in it is restored by you saying no) with the $40 mill is non-zero, and nobody needs to be purposely killed.

you're taking this too far, there is no "owner" of the 40 mil, this is all hypothetical!! We're assuming the 40mil is created out of nowhere and doesn't even affect the money supply. It's a secret between you, the button, and the dead person.

And 40 million would save thousands of life, no doubt about that.

[Penneywize]

And 40 million would save thousands of life, no doubt about that.

As an economist, I don't think it's a certain thing that even one life would be saved with that money.

People have been largely ignoring my arguments in the last 2 threads so I won't expand on this unless I'm asked to (not holding my breath tho lol).

@!luck don't be silly, I care about my family bra. I'm doing my best not to speak in definites and certainties here, but manipulating the question into the worst possible scenario (i.e. I either kill the one unknown person and pay someone 40 mil not to kill my family, for instance) will obviously make my argument seem unimportant.

[supa]

For all those who said they would donate the money to do enough good to make up for the one guaranteed lost life - what's to say that the owner of the $40 million wouldn't have done the same should you not accept the money? The chances that he will do good for society (maybe because his faith in it is restored by you saying no) with the $40 mill is non-zero, and nobody needs to be purposely killed.

Nah, a guy who puts up the money with the knowledge he'll be having someone killed isn't gonna snap have his faith restored. Plus he knows there's a chance someone would say no.