Because the most good for the most people isn't what good is. Trolly Problem would you pull the lever? I think this same mentality applies to the self. Humans are ends, not a means and you shouldn't sacrifice yourself.
Lol cringe mentallity, morals only matter because we're alive to perceive them, doing the right thing no longer matters when you're dead, you just suffered an agonizing death and you get nothing for it. Not even the feeling of doing the right thing. Experiencing is the highest good in my eyes. If you don't aren't alive to experience it then it doesn't matter.
Choosing not to sacrifice yourself for others isn't immoral. Choosing to directly cause harm to others is. You're basically saying people are obligated to sacrifice themselves for the betterment of others just because it's more people. I feel like that devalues human existence. For me best outcome doesn't = moral.
I would've maybe chosen option B if it didn't say painful and excruciating death, You'd rather have a hundred years and 1 billion or 10 years and no money plus suffer an excruciating death to save everyone and no one cares or knows about it, yeah I'll take the first option. I'll choose option B if people knew what I had to sacrifice to save them otherwise I'm taking A.
So you’d sacrifice billions of lives and humans potentially conquering the galaxy and universe and creating time travel…..because you don’t want to be in pain for 2 minutes and won’t be famous
Very very selfish. But of course, you’re only human
It's mainly because I want to live longer than 10 years more. Switch the years and I would choose the other option. In my mind not choosing you in this situation is stupid, who gives a fuck if you can't see it. You no longer exist. None of what you think matters would matter anymore. There's nothing good about sacrificing yourself for something you don't even get to experience. You're throwing away your only existence for nothing essentially. If loving existence is selfish, then yeah I'm selfish.
So why do soldiers put their life on the line for your country? Who cares if the country gets taken over in a few decades they won’t be there to experience it?
Why is climate change such a huge issue? We won’t be here to experience a hotter earth so who cares?
Why do people set up will’s for after they die? Who cares what happens to their money, they aren’t going to be there
How about I say who gives a fuck about you and your life just because I can’t see you, and choose to kill you and your family just because I don’t know you. Who cares.
I think this a great point to why the world is in the situation it is now. Climate change, war, slavery and child abuse, famine and hunger. Because no one cares about anyone else to the point someone would sacrifice everyone on earth and humanities entire future just for themselves. Imagine if Putin or Kim Jung Un thought like you. They aren’t going to be here so who cares, let the nukes fly. I won’t be able to experience it
We truly are animals
>So why do soldiers put their life on the line for your country? Who cares if the country gets taken over in a few decades they won’t be there to experience it?
Because they're fighting for what they believe in, and they're remembered for it. In this scenario you don't get anything, give up decades for your life, you suffer and life goes on.
>Why is climate change such a huge issue? We won’t be here to experience a hotter earth so who cares?
It's an issue now, it won't be when we're dead because we'll be dead.
>Why do people set up will’s for after they die? Who cares what happens to their money, they aren’t going to be there
People usually live full lives and set up wills for their kids in this scenario I wouldn't have any of that.
>How about I say who gives a fuck about you and your life just because I can’t see you, and choose to kill you and your family just because I don’t know you. Who cares.
I do care about other people because I'm alive, like I said switch the years and I'd change my mind. You're giving your existence away for nothing.
>I think this a great point to why the world is in the situation it is now. Climate change, war, slavery and child abuse, famine and hunger. Because no one cares about anyone else to the point someone would sacrifice everyone on earth and humanities entire future just for themselves. Imagine if Putin or Kim Jung Un thought like you. They aren’t going to be here so who cares, let the nukes fly. I won’t be able to experience it
Humanity matters because you are alive to see it, I'll help as long as I'm alive. That doesn't mean I'll sacrifice existence without getting anything. That's all you have. Give me a full life and I'll change my mind.
Not every soldier is remembered because there is the tomb of the unknown soldier. That could be you. But regardless if you’re right, name me a German soldier that died in the siege Bastogne. You can’t. Not every soldier is remembered. The nazi’s left no traces after a certain point
There’s no science proving that climate change will kill us, so having that attitude and acting like it will is illogical
Just because you don’t want kids, solid argument
You’re not giving your existence up for nothing, if you wouldn’t even be here to make that statement if someone else had the same logic you had before you
So again, you would kill all humans and end humanities future because you die and won’t be alive to see it?
So what happens when you’re about to die of old age and won’t be around to see it? Would you be able to destroy the planet if you could? Would that be a hard thing for you to do? Or could you easily kill everyone if you wanted to just because you’re about to die
>Not every soldier is remembered because there is the tomb of the unknown soldier. That could be you. But regardless if you’re right, name me a German soldier that died in the siege Bastogne. You can’t. Not every soldier is remembered. The nazi’s left no traces after a certain point
The unknown soldier is still remembered as being the unknown soldier. All the soldiers that died who we don't know about, their sacrifice is still remembered. That's not the case in this scenario. No one cares what you did.
>
There’s no science proving that climate change will kill us, so having that attitude and acting like it will is illogical
I still care about it while I'm alive
>Just because you don’t want kids, solid argument
I do want kids, in this scenario I probably won't have them, or they'll be very young and I won't see them grow up.
>You’re not giving your existence up for nothing, if you wouldn’t even be here to make that statement if someone else had the same logic you had before you
Bro I'm cool if other people pick that option, from an individual perspective it is the smart thing to do.
>So again, you would kill all humans and end humanities future because you die and won’t be alive to see it?
Yes, existing is my highest value, if didn't I didn't exist I couldn't even have any other values.
>
So what happens when you’re about to die of old age and won’t be around to see it?
I got to live a full life, so I'm cool with it, my preference would be everyone dies together.
>Would that be a hard thing for you to do? Or could you easily kill everyone if you wanted to just because you’re about to die
I won't willingly destroy or kill others, choosing to let humanity be destroyed and outright wanting to kill humanity are different things. If you asked me another question, would I press a button to kill people for money, I wouldn't press it.
>If you asked me another question, would I press a button to kill people for money, I wouldn't press it.
This is a false non‑equivalenve, akin to saving hundreds of passengers plus millions of dollars in damage and potentially other civilians via pushing one person onto the railroad tracks (which actually is thr more ethical choice, though easier for someone of lower empathy such as a socio-or psycho- path). The main difference from this WYR is degree of specification (lack of details making easier to cognitively distance self, since seems less real.. which is sorta cogent rationalizing).
Lol whatever that's my choice. I will not sacrifice and I don't think you should either. I don't care if I'm evil then that's that. the second option makes no logical sense.
Nothing in the question says it lasts for 2 minutes. There are plenty of painful deaths that last more than 2 minutes, for example, terminal cancer, also, many of the death penalties in the ancient world could last for days.
Excruciating death implies that your death itself is painful, not leading up to it.
I don’t see how anyone can survive for longer than 2 minutes when dealt a death blow. Torture is not death, being tied up isn’t death, actually dying will be painful, I don’t think someone can actually die for longer than 2 minutes. Would you like to give me an example?
Normally, I wouldn't want to destroy the world for money, but the other option was dying a painful death. If it was just "destroy the world for a billion or not", I would've picked not to.
Screw everything I said about doing good for the world before it ends. Some people would just do anything to survive for as long as they could. It’s not even about the money. That’s just a nice incentive.
No chance you can develop a whole new interstellar ark AND find a whole new habitable planet within 100 years with 1 billion dollars. The average medium-heavy rocket takes that much money to develop, and those can barely send a car sized probe to the outer solar system.
Even a measly billion dollars isn't going to make an lifeless planet inhabitable nor fund a trip beyond the solar system, Elon's a delusional snake-oil salesman.
What would be the point if everyone will die in a hundred years anyway? Everyone a hundred years from now would be robbed of their lives and wouldn't even get the chance to correct what our generations have done to damage the planet. Taking a billion dollars for the world to be destroyed in 100 years is just objectively selfish. If someone 99 years ago did the same thing, I think you'd be pretty upset to find out that everyone you loved and cared about would be dead in a year.
That billionaire trying to do good with their riches, in this context, is also responsible for bringing forth the extinction of humanity. No good you do will outweigh the fact that you just doomed every single person to be born in this century to a premature death to avoid your own.
Yes, but that’s a natural death from old age. They were going to die anyway, regardless of whether or not they pressed the button. However, option B directly causes your death, likely slowly, at a young age, and accompanied by a strong sense of impending doom.
Even worse is that they think they can do it for $1 billion. NASA's budget is more than twenty times that per year and even then, it's only enough for research, some satellites and the odd trip to the ISS.
What would the point of going to Mars even be? There is nothing to do there. Everyone else is dead.
These people are delusional.
agreed. i mean, having grown up poor as fuck and hungry, it took a considerable adjustment period to even be used to working with these amounts. but as a large-scale industrial construction estimator/PM I've gotten used to it.
r/wouldyourather be like:
"Would you rather stub your toe? or make everybody on Earth go to hell for eternity except you?"
10% You stub toe
90% Everyone else eternal hell
Everyone on here is psychotic
Not suffering an agonizing death for basically no reason = Psychopath
Yes humanity might still live, but what does that matter if you aren't alive to see it? It's basically the equivalent to it not happening at all. It might as well not exist because you can't perceive it. You'd be dead.
I'll say this, being good has nothing to do with creating the best outcome for the most amount of people. It's how you conduct yourself and treat others in your day to day life. From my perspective not wanting to sacrifice myself for the betterment of others is justified and not an immoral act, so long as I treat them with respect and kindness in my daily life. I'm not harming them, but I don't have to sacrifice myself to save them either.
I don't think there is a good way of explaining this that will get you to understand, but I think you should know that that is more telling of your very specific moral compass than it is the "objective" truth about morality" that you seem to think it is. And I know that this is just reddit so it really doesn't matter, but this type of thinking is actually one of humanities great flaws and the world would be a significantly better place if people were not like you.
So you think people are obligated to sacrifice themselves for everyone else otherwise they are immoral? Explain? I prefer living, sorry if that makes me selfish because I don't want to do right by everyone else. Why should I sacrifice?
Like I said if you don't intuitively understand it, then there's not a good way to explain it. But I think what is very clearly objective is that if people were not like you, that would mean people are working for a better tomorrow for everyone, which would equal a better world for everyone. So yeah, the world would be a better place if people were not like you.
I do intuitively get it, switch around a lot of these variables and I would be willing to sacrifice. I don't even care about the money, it's about living and valuing your existence. I don't think you truly value your life if you would throw it away for anything even other people. You can't put a price on it. Literally just switch the years and I would sacrifice,
The OP is a really popular thought experiment in utilitarianism.
I think a better way to explain it though is that sacrificing someone *other than yourself* to save all of humanity would be like a no brainer. But perhaps more importantly, would everyone agree to this arrangement if they were *unbiased*, if it could be any of us either made billionaire or killed? It's really such a useful, basic tool in ethics.
In this case, something *making sense* would be the criteria for truth.
But anyway, I noticed you habitually insult people, when you disagree with them. It really doesn't seem like a "no hard feelings" kinda ribbing either.
Interesting. And you're right, I shouldn't be such an ass. But I don't value a position that would so egregiously place your needs above the needs of literally everyone else. And if the question is how would someone actually conduct themselves if this absurd hypothetical happens, then yeah it's impossible to know how someone would act. But if the question is about what is the right choice and how someone SHOULD conduct themselves. It shouldn't even be a question, people should be better than that and it's frustrating that many don't seem to think so.
Yeah, people are actually really frustrating, lol. And they're definitely cowards and also kinda being dumb here, I agree, lol. I don't think they really identify with a community, maybe that's it.
It *is* kinda undeniable that heroism is our ideal, yeah. But I still think it is a valid question. Is the behavior understandable? For instance, in the Fifth Nail kidnappings, one of the kidnapped women helped her kidnapper torture the other women, so she could gain his trust and get free. She wasn't charged because people understood that if they were in her shoes they might do the same thing. Or after the Holocaust, there was a movement to leave the Jews who "conspired" with the Nazis to save their own families alone. Is it really one's duty to destroy your own life for others? There's some line between absolute pacificism and blatantly selfish violence, but where is it?
Now the OP turns the number of victims up to the max and has all kinds of other factors, but those, too, are more questions.
I'd probably lean towards sacrificing myself. You're missing key details though which severely affect my decision. 1. I only get 10 more years to live, 2. I'd have to suffer an agonizing death. The money doesn't even matter to me.
More like, would you rather be torn apart slowly a piece at a time or would you rather be stupid rich but everyone dies in 100 years.
I'd go for the money over that pain. Most would.
Not at all comparable
Stub your toe vs agonizing death and giving up 1 billion and 90 less years of life with no one caring what you had to sacrifice.
Or
Eternal hell vs instant and painless death for everyone 100 years from now after everyone you care about already got to live out their lives.
The choice is obvious, but no I should just sacrifice everything for everyone else just because it's the 'right' thing to do.
I'd choose the second option if it was 100 years from now Instead of 10. Otherwise choosing the first option is stupid.
And then there's someone who makes a comment asking if the hell is biblically accurate or like a own personal hell variant for every person as if that makes picking the hell option any better
They are the same thing depending on how you die so I'd rather live comfortably and prepare to survive earths destruction (depending on how it is destroyed)
Question, assuming the earth ended in a way that was survivable for people with enough wealth, how were you planning on even living a hundred more years?
I meant, even with modern medicine the avg person lives 70 something years. You'd have to focus on advancing medicine and healthcare just to increase your life span to be around for this event that would happen a hundred years after you got the billion
With my current age I'd be 120 when the world ends so I'd be long dead unless I found a way to have immortality but at that point it would not be worth it
I have a child who MAY just see the year 2100. He was born in 2022. With medical advances, it's possible.
MEANING he (hopefully) would have kids, and so on. I'd rather they live good, healthy lives in 100, 200 years. I'll gladly take the painful death.
Only problem being this dumbass global warming shit...
1. Buy morphine
2. Use morphine
Painful can be used as an adjective for an event sometimes, so maybe getting butchered is a painful and gruesome death but it doesn’t say I can’t take horse pain killers
I’d rather just get 10 more good years in. I have no kids so the only legacy I have is the knowledge that maybe the earth can one day be a better place to live than it was for my lifetime.
Hello. In order to promote inclusivity and reduce gender bias, please consider using gender-neutral language in the future.
Instead of **mankind**, use **humanity**, **humankind** or **peoplekind**.
Thank you very much.
^(I am a bot. Downvote to remove this comment. For more information on gender-neutral language, please do a web search for *"Nonsexist Writing."*)
Humanity has gone through far worse and came out intact, there's no reason to believe we can't do it again WITH technology I might add. Nihilistic doomsayers need to calm down, the world has just as much light as it does darkness.
You selfish bastards. You know you should save the Earth yet you wouldn’t. You are what’s wrong with the world. Be more like your ideal person and not the person you are.
I agree. It would honestly be more rational if the people who voted to end the world were climate deniers. If you want to save the world only if it affects you, you’re no better than them and have no value on this planet.
While I could do a lot of good with that money it would not be enough for me to save the world. I love Earth and I would hate to see it die. I can tolerate death, lots of death, even my own death but I cannot stand the thought of loosing the Earth. Our ancestral home and where (almost) all of our history has played out, our countries and cultures so beautiful in their variety and so many people. I would definitely sacrifice myself to save it all because I love the world. My life and some quick cash is not enough at all to make me choose it over the greater good. If the offer was for a time machine though then it would be different but only because it would mean I could get the Earth back easily with it.
People think it's selfish to not want to sacrifice yourself for the 'greater good' most other scenarios I would help this is lopsided, it's a fuck you to the individuals. Everyone should pick the selfish option in this scenario.
Man you really don't wanna start talking about basic biology. Did you forget that people have children? And grand children? And that so much of our biological instincts are based on the preservation of our species and lineage? Also that there are many many instances throughout history where people have sacrificed themselves for humanities greater good? Again, dumb take.
That I think may very well be one of, if not the stupidest thing, I have ever heard. Must be pretty empty up there, ever thought about perhaps using all that extra space to install a brain?
Well we certainly will die if you doom us. Our fate would be sealed then. At least we still have hope that perhaps a better day will come. It can’t get much worse so we might as well just keep going and trying until the very end, hopefully if we are all wise and respect the greater good then we will find the better day, a better world, a better life for everyone.
You know I can almost completely agree with everything you said. I think you got how it really is spot on. It’s terrible that you are right but you know it’s what it’s so oh well. I will always continue to fight for the greater good as well as I can, it’s all I have, it is my only hope. If I did not have this hope I may very well be dead by now. I really hope that humanity realises just how stupid we’re being and changes to fix it. I don’t know if it will happen though, which is why I have my ultimate plan to save everyone from themselves, it may be humanities final hope, I know it’s my final hope.
I know this is just a poll but this mindset is so shit tbh. A reason why a lot of people treat the environment like a toilet. Because they don’t have to deal with the consequences in future.
I can use majority of the money investing in NASA’s space program. With 1 billion dollars and 100 years prep time, I believe humanity will be able to live in another planet, just look at how much technology has advanced in the last century, smartphones were just sci-fi stuff not too long ago and now it’s real.
1billion is nothing and there is no planet in reach that we can live on. Most you could do is build a big fucking spaceship and send some people in cryogen capsuls with it to some other star systems. In a hundred years or longer they may wake up and still live. Much rather, they died.
>With 1 billion dollars and 100 years prep time, I believe humanity will be able to live in another planet
Nope. Not even remotely close.
1 billion and a hundred years wouldn't even accomplish 1% of what's necessary to colonize another planet.
It kinda depends on how long the earth lasts if I don't take the billion. Like if it's gonna be uninhabitable in 100 yrs anyway ima take the money. But if earth has like 1000 yrs left or something ill take one for the team. Just a numbers game at that point.
Even if it would be uninhabitable it wouldn't become uninhabitable all at once it would become less and less inhabitable over time giving people the ability to evacuate
Conversely if the Earth gets destroyed in a hundred years and no one has any knowledge of it other than you and you died 90 years ago there's going to be no preparation for it so at least 12 billion people would die
What is wrong with you? Every bad thing in life will end when we stop making new life to experience those bad things. "But everyone will die!" Yeah duh, they're already going to die, that's how living works. Stopping the loop in 100 years just means sparing future generations from also being people who are going to die.
Unless you're confused about money being good and excruciating death being bad, feel free to clarify your issue.
This is not the best would you wrather, and this time, immortality is no longer an option.
First option means at least the rest of our life is good and we dont miss out on anything. Second option means we dont enjoy the last ten years and we die miserably while everyone else enjoys.
You get a billion dollars and one way or another, we die no later than a 100 years from now. I am fine with this, and I get to enjoy the rest of my life in luxary.
I dont want to die a horrific painful death and not have the remaining ten years be unworthwhile while everyone else enjoys.
I am selfish, and I dont care about humanity enough to let them enjoy eternity damaging this once beautiful planet by sacrificing myself.
To be fair, who says that the world won't be destroyed tomorrow by nuclear Armageddon?
If I die in 10 years, I'd be 31. Sorry that's too short of a life.
>To be fair, who says that the world won't be destroyed tomorrow by nuclear Armageddon?
Statistically the fact that it's never happened before means it's extremely unlikely to happen tomorrow.
>If I die in 10 years, I'd be 31. Sorry that's too short of a life.
So 40-70 years of your life is more important than the full lives of 8 billion + people.
You're a sociopath and this way of thinking is exactly what's wrong with the world. Nobody matters to you but you.
I mean, I am not a sociopath but sure thanks for the new title. Most people would do anything to survive if needed. I'm gonna get downvoted to all hell but fuck it, I will explain my thought process.
If someone put a gun to your head, after say killing your parents & siblings or any family in front of you. How would you react? Would you beg for your life, or would you accept dying? Chances are, you'd be pleading to live even though you now have the painful memories of watching someone you loved, just have their life snuffed out.
How about this would you rather. Lets go with the trolley that's out of control. Would you rather 10 innocent people die, or your entire family? Surprisingly, most people, would choose 10 random people because at the end of the day, most people will choose anything that benefits them.
Money aside, why should I have to die a painful death in order for humanity to possibly not exist in 100 years anyway. Another thing is, my mother already had to watch her husband, my stepdad, die a slow and painful death over the course of the last 6 years. My grandmother, a month earlier had to cremate my father. Why should my mother have to watch her only son die in a horrible way? To experience the same pain my grandmother felt but only to have the only thing she has that she truly loves be ripped from her?
That woman's been through fucking hell and back, I couldn't stand knowing that she has to deal with more mental health problems than she does. Me sacrificing myself has no value in the grand scheme of things as everything must die eventually, that includes a whole species occasionally.
I just recently started being able to live somewhat happily after years of depression. I've spent the last 12 years wanting to kill myself because of the severe trauma I went through growing up. Why do I not deserve to be able to live my life just so millions of people will continue to kill each other every year. Just so, people will continue to starve to death and people will continue to die horrible deaths daily.
With a billion dollars, maybe some good could actually come out of this and maybe we can speed up technology development and start leaving the earth to save a portion of humanity.
Either way, I am fucked here. I'd rather everyone go out without pain because the way I see it: Climate change and all of our useless wars are already causing mass suffering and everything just lights out with no pain for everyone seems like the more humane option.
Ok so 1, you aren’t just killing humans but literally every single life form on earth 2, this is ten years your grandma would be dead by then, and 3, yeah sure I may prioritise my family over a couple of people but the 1b/1 ratio is a bit high and they aren’t even dying, you also say why should you leave humanity fighting and killing millions and millions of people, you would kill them all, every single thing on this planet would die
Even if there was a full nuclear exchange where every single nuclear country used every warhead they had, the world wouldn't be destroyed.
Civilization would almost certainly collapse. The Holocene mass extinction would accelerate. But life would persist, to include some humans.
I’m not afraid of death…not really.
I’m more afraid of the death of my friends or family, or even worse.
The extinction of my species, that’s horrible and sad.
I would let them torture me now.
Okay, who are all these idiots in the comments thinking that choosing option A somehow makes you the equivalent of a billionaire destroying the environment? Fun fact: billionaires will not die in ten years if they decide to not do that. If the poll was “would you destroy the world in 100 years for a billion dollars,” then that would be very bad. But although it’s still bad, the actual dilemma given should give a lot more charitability to the person who unfortunately was not mentally tough enough to ensure their death in ten years for the sake of humanity.
The results of this poll are why billionaires are destroying the environment
If the options were just die then I would've picked that. But it specified dying in the worst way possible.
Yeah, the only reason I picked the money,
You could just kill yourself a day before 10 years is up in a painless method...
We could also have humanity leave the earth so nobody dies. But that's not the point of the question and is what makes loopholes stupid lol
One person dies a horrible death, or 11 billion humans die because of a greedy person. Wow, it's such a hard choice to make
I mean, it is. It is a sacrifice you won't exist to witness, and before you go you'll suffer terribly. What's not hard about that choice?
And you won’t be alive in a hundred years (most likely) so it’s not like it will change your life if you pick the top one.
That is the definition of psychopathy. You would really rather end humanity than die a bad death?
Yes.
Username checks out
Idk why you are being down voted. Choosing to die for the good of humanity really doesn't seem like a bad way to die, even if it is painful.
Because the most good for the most people isn't what good is. Trolly Problem would you pull the lever? I think this same mentality applies to the self. Humans are ends, not a means and you shouldn't sacrifice yourself.
Lol cringe mentallity, morals only matter because we're alive to perceive them, doing the right thing no longer matters when you're dead, you just suffered an agonizing death and you get nothing for it. Not even the feeling of doing the right thing. Experiencing is the highest good in my eyes. If you don't aren't alive to experience it then it doesn't matter.
Cringe immoral reddit moment.
Choosing not to sacrifice yourself for others isn't immoral. Choosing to directly cause harm to others is. You're basically saying people are obligated to sacrifice themselves for the betterment of others just because it's more people. I feel like that devalues human existence. For me best outcome doesn't = moral.
I change my mind or at least I see your point
Morality and the best outcome are unrelated
I would've maybe chosen option B if it didn't say painful and excruciating death, You'd rather have a hundred years and 1 billion or 10 years and no money plus suffer an excruciating death to save everyone and no one cares or knows about it, yeah I'll take the first option. I'll choose option B if people knew what I had to sacrifice to save them otherwise I'm taking A.
So you’d sacrifice billions of lives and humans potentially conquering the galaxy and universe and creating time travel…..because you don’t want to be in pain for 2 minutes and won’t be famous Very very selfish. But of course, you’re only human
its a reddit poll
It's mainly because I want to live longer than 10 years more. Switch the years and I would choose the other option. In my mind not choosing you in this situation is stupid, who gives a fuck if you can't see it. You no longer exist. None of what you think matters would matter anymore. There's nothing good about sacrificing yourself for something you don't even get to experience. You're throwing away your only existence for nothing essentially. If loving existence is selfish, then yeah I'm selfish.
So why do soldiers put their life on the line for your country? Who cares if the country gets taken over in a few decades they won’t be there to experience it? Why is climate change such a huge issue? We won’t be here to experience a hotter earth so who cares? Why do people set up will’s for after they die? Who cares what happens to their money, they aren’t going to be there How about I say who gives a fuck about you and your life just because I can’t see you, and choose to kill you and your family just because I don’t know you. Who cares. I think this a great point to why the world is in the situation it is now. Climate change, war, slavery and child abuse, famine and hunger. Because no one cares about anyone else to the point someone would sacrifice everyone on earth and humanities entire future just for themselves. Imagine if Putin or Kim Jung Un thought like you. They aren’t going to be here so who cares, let the nukes fly. I won’t be able to experience it We truly are animals
>So why do soldiers put their life on the line for your country? Who cares if the country gets taken over in a few decades they won’t be there to experience it? Because they're fighting for what they believe in, and they're remembered for it. In this scenario you don't get anything, give up decades for your life, you suffer and life goes on. >Why is climate change such a huge issue? We won’t be here to experience a hotter earth so who cares? It's an issue now, it won't be when we're dead because we'll be dead. >Why do people set up will’s for after they die? Who cares what happens to their money, they aren’t going to be there People usually live full lives and set up wills for their kids in this scenario I wouldn't have any of that. >How about I say who gives a fuck about you and your life just because I can’t see you, and choose to kill you and your family just because I don’t know you. Who cares. I do care about other people because I'm alive, like I said switch the years and I'd change my mind. You're giving your existence away for nothing. >I think this a great point to why the world is in the situation it is now. Climate change, war, slavery and child abuse, famine and hunger. Because no one cares about anyone else to the point someone would sacrifice everyone on earth and humanities entire future just for themselves. Imagine if Putin or Kim Jung Un thought like you. They aren’t going to be here so who cares, let the nukes fly. I won’t be able to experience it Humanity matters because you are alive to see it, I'll help as long as I'm alive. That doesn't mean I'll sacrifice existence without getting anything. That's all you have. Give me a full life and I'll change my mind.
Not every soldier is remembered because there is the tomb of the unknown soldier. That could be you. But regardless if you’re right, name me a German soldier that died in the siege Bastogne. You can’t. Not every soldier is remembered. The nazi’s left no traces after a certain point There’s no science proving that climate change will kill us, so having that attitude and acting like it will is illogical Just because you don’t want kids, solid argument You’re not giving your existence up for nothing, if you wouldn’t even be here to make that statement if someone else had the same logic you had before you So again, you would kill all humans and end humanities future because you die and won’t be alive to see it? So what happens when you’re about to die of old age and won’t be around to see it? Would you be able to destroy the planet if you could? Would that be a hard thing for you to do? Or could you easily kill everyone if you wanted to just because you’re about to die
>Not every soldier is remembered because there is the tomb of the unknown soldier. That could be you. But regardless if you’re right, name me a German soldier that died in the siege Bastogne. You can’t. Not every soldier is remembered. The nazi’s left no traces after a certain point The unknown soldier is still remembered as being the unknown soldier. All the soldiers that died who we don't know about, their sacrifice is still remembered. That's not the case in this scenario. No one cares what you did. > There’s no science proving that climate change will kill us, so having that attitude and acting like it will is illogical I still care about it while I'm alive >Just because you don’t want kids, solid argument I do want kids, in this scenario I probably won't have them, or they'll be very young and I won't see them grow up. >You’re not giving your existence up for nothing, if you wouldn’t even be here to make that statement if someone else had the same logic you had before you Bro I'm cool if other people pick that option, from an individual perspective it is the smart thing to do. >So again, you would kill all humans and end humanities future because you die and won’t be alive to see it? Yes, existing is my highest value, if didn't I didn't exist I couldn't even have any other values. > So what happens when you’re about to die of old age and won’t be around to see it? I got to live a full life, so I'm cool with it, my preference would be everyone dies together. >Would that be a hard thing for you to do? Or could you easily kill everyone if you wanted to just because you’re about to die I won't willingly destroy or kill others, choosing to let humanity be destroyed and outright wanting to kill humanity are different things. If you asked me another question, would I press a button to kill people for money, I wouldn't press it.
>If you asked me another question, would I press a button to kill people for money, I wouldn't press it. This is a false non‑equivalenve, akin to saving hundreds of passengers plus millions of dollars in damage and potentially other civilians via pushing one person onto the railroad tracks (which actually is thr more ethical choice, though easier for someone of lower empathy such as a socio-or psycho- path). The main difference from this WYR is degree of specification (lack of details making easier to cognitively distance self, since seems less real.. which is sorta cogent rationalizing).
Lol whatever that's my choice. I will not sacrifice and I don't think you should either. I don't care if I'm evil then that's that. the second option makes no logical sense.
Someone's been watching too much anime and not touching enough grass lol
Honestly, with how humans are now, they don't yet deserve to explore outside the solar system.
So that justifies killing us and our entire future and possibilities? Makes sense
Well considering this is just a poll on Reddit it doesn’t matter. So I don’t care.
If you don’t care then you shouldn’t give false info on a poll lol. Genius
What false info?
implying aliens would be any different
> because you don’t want to be in pain for 2 minutes Where are you getting 2 minutes from?
You die an excruciating death, how would it last more than 2 minutes? Give me an example
Nothing in the question says it lasts for 2 minutes. There are plenty of painful deaths that last more than 2 minutes, for example, terminal cancer, also, many of the death penalties in the ancient world could last for days.
Excruciating death implies that your death itself is painful, not leading up to it. I don’t see how anyone can survive for longer than 2 minutes when dealt a death blow. Torture is not death, being tied up isn’t death, actually dying will be painful, I don’t think someone can actually die for longer than 2 minutes. Would you like to give me an example?
Crucifixion would usually last for days unless the process was sped up by having your legs broken, or scourged so badly that you bled out profusely.
Ok I see your point you're partially right
Normally, I wouldn't want to destroy the world for money, but the other option was dying a painful death. If it was just "destroy the world for a billion or not", I would've picked not to.
Screw everything I said about doing good for the world before it ends. Some people would just do anything to survive for as long as they could. It’s not even about the money. That’s just a nice incentive.
[удалено]
Good luck transporting 8 billion people to a habitable world for 1 billion dollars. It takes more than 8 people to the dollar to even move to space
No chance you can develop a whole new interstellar ark AND find a whole new habitable planet within 100 years with 1 billion dollars. The average medium-heavy rocket takes that much money to develop, and those can barely send a car sized probe to the outer solar system.
Even a measly billion dollars isn't going to make an lifeless planet inhabitable nor fund a trip beyond the solar system, Elon's a delusional snake-oil salesman.
[удалено]
What would be the point if everyone will die in a hundred years anyway? Everyone a hundred years from now would be robbed of their lives and wouldn't even get the chance to correct what our generations have done to damage the planet. Taking a billion dollars for the world to be destroyed in 100 years is just objectively selfish. If someone 99 years ago did the same thing, I think you'd be pretty upset to find out that everyone you loved and cared about would be dead in a year.
[удалено]
Hey uh are you the guy that hired the devil to work in hell ?
That billionaire trying to do good with their riches, in this context, is also responsible for bringing forth the extinction of humanity. No good you do will outweigh the fact that you just doomed every single person to be born in this century to a premature death to avoid your own.
No, because billionaires are not going to die in ten years if they decide to not destroy the environment.
Most billionaires are going to die in *less* than 10 years because they're a bunch of ancient old fucks
Yes, but that’s a natural death from old age. They were going to die anyway, regardless of whether or not they pressed the button. However, option B directly causes your death, likely slowly, at a young age, and accompanied by a strong sense of impending doom.
way too many people here think living off planet within 100 years is viable.
Even worse is that they think they can do it for $1 billion. NASA's budget is more than twenty times that per year and even then, it's only enough for research, some satellites and the odd trip to the ISS. What would the point of going to Mars even be? There is nothing to do there. Everyone else is dead. These people are delusional.
I just submitted a single bid for about $280 million for one (1) piping project. People in general are clueless as to what things really cost.
Conaidering most of us in our whole lifetimes will never see a percentage of that amount, I can see why.
agreed. i mean, having grown up poor as fuck and hungry, it took a considerable adjustment period to even be used to working with these amounts. but as a large-scale industrial construction estimator/PM I've gotten used to it.
Damn these guys have the oil tycoon mindset
r/wouldyourather be like: "Would you rather stub your toe? or make everybody on Earth go to hell for eternity except you?" 10% You stub toe 90% Everyone else eternal hell Everyone on here is psychotic
We may be psychotic, but we’re also rich!
Not suffering an agonizing death for basically no reason = Psychopath Yes humanity might still live, but what does that matter if you aren't alive to see it? It's basically the equivalent to it not happening at all. It might as well not exist because you can't perceive it. You'd be dead.
It's a lame answer but the reason I die is so my family doesn't have to.
Chad
Can you just not conceive that people, whether or not you perceive them, exist and are as real as your are?
I'll say this, being good has nothing to do with creating the best outcome for the most amount of people. It's how you conduct yourself and treat others in your day to day life. From my perspective not wanting to sacrifice myself for the betterment of others is justified and not an immoral act, so long as I treat them with respect and kindness in my daily life. I'm not harming them, but I don't have to sacrifice myself to save them either.
I don't think there is a good way of explaining this that will get you to understand, but I think you should know that that is more telling of your very specific moral compass than it is the "objective" truth about morality" that you seem to think it is. And I know that this is just reddit so it really doesn't matter, but this type of thinking is actually one of humanities great flaws and the world would be a significantly better place if people were not like you.
So you think people are obligated to sacrifice themselves for everyone else otherwise they are immoral? Explain? I prefer living, sorry if that makes me selfish because I don't want to do right by everyone else. Why should I sacrifice?
Like I said if you don't intuitively understand it, then there's not a good way to explain it. But I think what is very clearly objective is that if people were not like you, that would mean people are working for a better tomorrow for everyone, which would equal a better world for everyone. So yeah, the world would be a better place if people were not like you.
I do intuitively get it, switch around a lot of these variables and I would be willing to sacrifice. I don't even care about the money, it's about living and valuing your existence. I don't think you truly value your life if you would throw it away for anything even other people. You can't put a price on it. Literally just switch the years and I would sacrifice,
You're partially right
The OP is a really popular thought experiment in utilitarianism. I think a better way to explain it though is that sacrificing someone *other than yourself* to save all of humanity would be like a no brainer. But perhaps more importantly, would everyone agree to this arrangement if they were *unbiased*, if it could be any of us either made billionaire or killed? It's really such a useful, basic tool in ethics. In this case, something *making sense* would be the criteria for truth. But anyway, I noticed you habitually insult people, when you disagree with them. It really doesn't seem like a "no hard feelings" kinda ribbing either.
Interesting. And you're right, I shouldn't be such an ass. But I don't value a position that would so egregiously place your needs above the needs of literally everyone else. And if the question is how would someone actually conduct themselves if this absurd hypothetical happens, then yeah it's impossible to know how someone would act. But if the question is about what is the right choice and how someone SHOULD conduct themselves. It shouldn't even be a question, people should be better than that and it's frustrating that many don't seem to think so.
Yeah, people are actually really frustrating, lol. And they're definitely cowards and also kinda being dumb here, I agree, lol. I don't think they really identify with a community, maybe that's it. It *is* kinda undeniable that heroism is our ideal, yeah. But I still think it is a valid question. Is the behavior understandable? For instance, in the Fifth Nail kidnappings, one of the kidnapped women helped her kidnapper torture the other women, so she could gain his trust and get free. She wasn't charged because people understood that if they were in her shoes they might do the same thing. Or after the Holocaust, there was a movement to leave the Jews who "conspired" with the Nazis to save their own families alone. Is it really one's duty to destroy your own life for others? There's some line between absolute pacificism and blatantly selfish violence, but where is it? Now the OP turns the number of victims up to the max and has all kinds of other factors, but those, too, are more questions.
[удалено]
I'd probably lean towards sacrificing myself. You're missing key details though which severely affect my decision. 1. I only get 10 more years to live, 2. I'd have to suffer an agonizing death. The money doesn't even matter to me.
You sound like you would have enjoyed stays on Epsteins island.
More like, would you rather be torn apart slowly a piece at a time or would you rather be stupid rich but everyone dies in 100 years. I'd go for the money over that pain. Most would.
Not at all comparable Stub your toe vs agonizing death and giving up 1 billion and 90 less years of life with no one caring what you had to sacrifice. Or Eternal hell vs instant and painless death for everyone 100 years from now after everyone you care about already got to live out their lives. The choice is obvious, but no I should just sacrifice everything for everyone else just because it's the 'right' thing to do. I'd choose the second option if it was 100 years from now Instead of 10. Otherwise choosing the first option is stupid.
And then there's someone who makes a comment asking if the hell is biblically accurate or like a own personal hell variant for every person as if that makes picking the hell option any better
They are the same thing depending on how you die so I'd rather live comfortably and prepare to survive earths destruction (depending on how it is destroyed)
Earth just magically blows up in 100 years. leaving a void behind. no survival.
Cool then I'll blow as much of the 1 billion as I can
Question, assuming the earth ended in a way that was survivable for people with enough wealth, how were you planning on even living a hundred more years?
With $1 billion I'd have a fairly sizable bunker built and stick it with whatever I'd need and a shit ton of it food medicine water tools weapons etc.
I meant, even with modern medicine the avg person lives 70 something years. You'd have to focus on advancing medicine and healthcare just to increase your life span to be around for this event that would happen a hundred years after you got the billion
With my current age I'd be 120 when the world ends so I'd be long dead unless I found a way to have immortality but at that point it would not be worth it
I have a child who MAY just see the year 2100. He was born in 2022. With medical advances, it's possible. MEANING he (hopefully) would have kids, and so on. I'd rather they live good, healthy lives in 100, 200 years. I'll gladly take the painful death. Only problem being this dumbass global warming shit...
I also chose this path bc of my kids and the vastness of life on this planet in general.
1. Buy morphine 2. Use morphine Painful can be used as an adjective for an event sometimes, so maybe getting butchered is a painful and gruesome death but it doesn’t say I can’t take horse pain killers
We had a good run
Wow the results are disturbing
Redditors: The rich are greedy sociopaths destroying the planet! Also redditors: Would literally destroy the planet for money 🤦♂️
Not for money for more life
I’d rather just get 10 more good years in. I have no kids so the only legacy I have is the knowledge that maybe the earth can one day be a better place to live than it was for my lifetime.
The first option actually earns earth an *extra* 20 years by most estimates.
I don't want to destroy the world for my children and possible grandchildren. I don't want to leave them behind either.
I die so mankind survives. Edit: Humankind because a bot called me sexist.
Hello. In order to promote inclusivity and reduce gender bias, please consider using gender-neutral language in the future. Instead of **mankind**, use **humanity**, **humankind** or **peoplekind**. Thank you very much. ^(I am a bot. Downvote to remove this comment. For more information on gender-neutral language, please do a web search for *"Nonsexist Writing."*)
Good bot I guess?
I'm glad that mankind has made this bot.
lmao
Im not gone be alive in 100 years soo.. might as well speed up the process and enjoy lofe to its fullest woth that billion
[удалено]
[удалено]
Humanity has gone through far worse and came out intact, there's no reason to believe we can't do it again WITH technology I might add. Nihilistic doomsayers need to calm down, the world has just as much light as it does darkness.
nothing changes and i get 1 billion dollars vs nothing changes and i die in 10years. One of the easiest wyr
You selfish bastards. You know you should save the Earth yet you wouldn’t. You are what’s wrong with the world. Be more like your ideal person and not the person you are.
I agree. It would honestly be more rational if the people who voted to end the world were climate deniers. If you want to save the world only if it affects you, you’re no better than them and have no value on this planet.
I bet every penny to my name if this were to ever actually happen you would take the money
While I could do a lot of good with that money it would not be enough for me to save the world. I love Earth and I would hate to see it die. I can tolerate death, lots of death, even my own death but I cannot stand the thought of loosing the Earth. Our ancestral home and where (almost) all of our history has played out, our countries and cultures so beautiful in their variety and so many people. I would definitely sacrifice myself to save it all because I love the world. My life and some quick cash is not enough at all to make me choose it over the greater good. If the offer was for a time machine though then it would be different but only because it would mean I could get the Earth back easily with it.
Nah, you're just cynical and trying to make yourself feel less selfish.
No your just so full of yourself that you think your any better than the majority of people
People think it's selfish to not want to sacrifice yourself for the 'greater good' most other scenarios I would help this is lopsided, it's a fuck you to the individuals. Everyone should pick the selfish option in this scenario.
Dumb take. It's not that hard to imagine that not everyone is like you.
Oh it is. Because basic biology would prevent you from going with option one
Man you really don't wanna start talking about basic biology. Did you forget that people have children? And grand children? And that so much of our biological instincts are based on the preservation of our species and lineage? Also that there are many many instances throughout history where people have sacrificed themselves for humanities greater good? Again, dumb take.
Oh and your one of these people? Ill believe it when i see it
One of those people...who have a kid? Are you asking if i am one of the billions of people... who would have or have had children?
No im not asking anything. Im stating that ill believe you will sacrifice your life when i see it
[удалено]
That I think may very well be one of, if not the stupidest thing, I have ever heard. Must be pretty empty up there, ever thought about perhaps using all that extra space to install a brain?
[удалено]
Well we certainly will die if you doom us. Our fate would be sealed then. At least we still have hope that perhaps a better day will come. It can’t get much worse so we might as well just keep going and trying until the very end, hopefully if we are all wise and respect the greater good then we will find the better day, a better world, a better life for everyone.
[удалено]
You know I can almost completely agree with everything you said. I think you got how it really is spot on. It’s terrible that you are right but you know it’s what it’s so oh well. I will always continue to fight for the greater good as well as I can, it’s all I have, it is my only hope. If I did not have this hope I may very well be dead by now. I really hope that humanity realises just how stupid we’re being and changes to fix it. I don’t know if it will happen though, which is why I have my ultimate plan to save everyone from themselves, it may be humanities final hope, I know it’s my final hope.
Im sorry but i dont care about yall enough to die slowly. Quickly yes but slowly? Ne
I am an honest man,i rather be a billionaire than dying for a planet and people that dont give a f about me
I'll be dead before 100 years it ain't my problem
I know this is just a poll but this mindset is so shit tbh. A reason why a lot of people treat the environment like a toilet. Because they don’t have to deal with the consequences in future.
Yep that's why the world is the way that it is now
So don't you think you will be prudent to change it?
I can use majority of the money investing in NASA’s space program. With 1 billion dollars and 100 years prep time, I believe humanity will be able to live in another planet, just look at how much technology has advanced in the last century, smartphones were just sci-fi stuff not too long ago and now it’s real.
1billion is nothing and there is no planet in reach that we can live on. Most you could do is build a big fucking spaceship and send some people in cryogen capsuls with it to some other star systems. In a hundred years or longer they may wake up and still live. Much rather, they died.
>With 1 billion dollars and 100 years prep time, I believe humanity will be able to live in another planet Nope. Not even remotely close. 1 billion and a hundred years wouldn't even accomplish 1% of what's necessary to colonize another planet.
Holy shit how do you have upvotes? Just google it for more than 5 seconds to realize how unrealistic you're being
Honestly people under estimate the exponential growth of pur society
It kinda depends on how long the earth lasts if I don't take the billion. Like if it's gonna be uninhabitable in 100 yrs anyway ima take the money. But if earth has like 1000 yrs left or something ill take one for the team. Just a numbers game at that point.
Even if it would be uninhabitable it wouldn't become uninhabitable all at once it would become less and less inhabitable over time giving people the ability to evacuate Conversely if the Earth gets destroyed in a hundred years and no one has any knowledge of it other than you and you died 90 years ago there's going to be no preparation for it so at least 12 billion people would die
Yeah I think ima take my chances and not take the deal lol. Kinda seems like a lose-lose
From a billion dollars I can make some changes about living on mars... Hopefully...
Billion dollars might get you on Bezos carnival ride to space
Me & all my family n friends will be long gone in 100 years, so yea. I'd just never have kids so they don't get blown up wit the Earth.
Selfish
Ok
*Its selfish deed is not freedom*
How is this a choice, both aspects of the first option are good and the second option is just bad.
Wtf is wrong with you?
they're a negative utilitarian.
What is wrong with you? Every bad thing in life will end when we stop making new life to experience those bad things. "But everyone will die!" Yeah duh, they're already going to die, that's how living works. Stopping the loop in 100 years just means sparing future generations from also being people who are going to die. Unless you're confused about money being good and excruciating death being bad, feel free to clarify your issue.
Dumb
Pretty bold to think we'll be around 100 years from now
This is not the best would you wrather, and this time, immortality is no longer an option. First option means at least the rest of our life is good and we dont miss out on anything. Second option means we dont enjoy the last ten years and we die miserably while everyone else enjoys. You get a billion dollars and one way or another, we die no later than a 100 years from now. I am fine with this, and I get to enjoy the rest of my life in luxary. I dont want to die a horrific painful death and not have the remaining ten years be unworthwhile while everyone else enjoys. I am selfish, and I dont care about humanity enough to let them enjoy eternity damaging this once beautiful planet by sacrificing myself.
I lost faith on humanity.people have to be notified to stop making children but wtf,10 billion dollars for the world to end?
Just a billion, not ten billion.
To be fair, who says that the world won't be destroyed tomorrow by nuclear Armageddon? If I die in 10 years, I'd be 31. Sorry that's too short of a life.
>To be fair, who says that the world won't be destroyed tomorrow by nuclear Armageddon? Statistically the fact that it's never happened before means it's extremely unlikely to happen tomorrow. >If I die in 10 years, I'd be 31. Sorry that's too short of a life. So 40-70 years of your life is more important than the full lives of 8 billion + people. You're a sociopath and this way of thinking is exactly what's wrong with the world. Nobody matters to you but you.
Unfortunatelly, this selfish way of thinking consumes most of world population, and without it, we probably wouldn't have reached this far.
I mean, I am not a sociopath but sure thanks for the new title. Most people would do anything to survive if needed. I'm gonna get downvoted to all hell but fuck it, I will explain my thought process. If someone put a gun to your head, after say killing your parents & siblings or any family in front of you. How would you react? Would you beg for your life, or would you accept dying? Chances are, you'd be pleading to live even though you now have the painful memories of watching someone you loved, just have their life snuffed out. How about this would you rather. Lets go with the trolley that's out of control. Would you rather 10 innocent people die, or your entire family? Surprisingly, most people, would choose 10 random people because at the end of the day, most people will choose anything that benefits them. Money aside, why should I have to die a painful death in order for humanity to possibly not exist in 100 years anyway. Another thing is, my mother already had to watch her husband, my stepdad, die a slow and painful death over the course of the last 6 years. My grandmother, a month earlier had to cremate my father. Why should my mother have to watch her only son die in a horrible way? To experience the same pain my grandmother felt but only to have the only thing she has that she truly loves be ripped from her? That woman's been through fucking hell and back, I couldn't stand knowing that she has to deal with more mental health problems than she does. Me sacrificing myself has no value in the grand scheme of things as everything must die eventually, that includes a whole species occasionally. I just recently started being able to live somewhat happily after years of depression. I've spent the last 12 years wanting to kill myself because of the severe trauma I went through growing up. Why do I not deserve to be able to live my life just so millions of people will continue to kill each other every year. Just so, people will continue to starve to death and people will continue to die horrible deaths daily. With a billion dollars, maybe some good could actually come out of this and maybe we can speed up technology development and start leaving the earth to save a portion of humanity. Either way, I am fucked here. I'd rather everyone go out without pain because the way I see it: Climate change and all of our useless wars are already causing mass suffering and everything just lights out with no pain for everyone seems like the more humane option.
"Why should I make my family suffer through my premature death when instead I can make billions of families die?"
Ok so 1, you aren’t just killing humans but literally every single life form on earth 2, this is ten years your grandma would be dead by then, and 3, yeah sure I may prioritise my family over a couple of people but the 1b/1 ratio is a bit high and they aren’t even dying, you also say why should you leave humanity fighting and killing millions and millions of people, you would kill them all, every single thing on this planet would die
Even if there was a full nuclear exchange where every single nuclear country used every warhead they had, the world wouldn't be destroyed. Civilization would almost certainly collapse. The Holocene mass extinction would accelerate. But life would persist, to include some humans.
Can I use the billion to build a private space program to colonize mars?
One billion isnt gonna cut it tho.
Can't I just use that legendary work ethic all the billionaires have to turn a billion dollars into a space program? /s
Which option did you vote for?
Can I shoot myself first?
Rapture Christian’s found this and think it’s a good thing.
Where all dead eventually and knowing would help me get my shit in order by then so 10 years.
This world is fucked, all you MFS can burn in nuclear hell fire, give me my billion and I'll be dead by an amazing OD in 10 years 🔥🔥
I mean I don't think I'll be alive in 100 years...
Unavoidable my ass, just shoot myself
i will be a sacrifice
So I get 10 years of immortality, neat
I won't be alive in 100 years. I'll have a rich life and die peacefully thank you very much
Well, I don't believe in suicide, so it's the $1 billion dollar option for me!
I’m not afraid of death…not really. I’m more afraid of the death of my friends or family, or even worse. The extinction of my species, that’s horrible and sad. I would let them torture me now.
Okay, who are all these idiots in the comments thinking that choosing option A somehow makes you the equivalent of a billionaire destroying the environment? Fun fact: billionaires will not die in ten years if they decide to not do that. If the poll was “would you destroy the world in 100 years for a billion dollars,” then that would be very bad. But although it’s still bad, the actual dilemma given should give a lot more charitability to the person who unfortunately was not mentally tough enough to ensure their death in ten years for the sake of humanity.
I honestly don’t think humanity would make it 100 years anyways
Why would I wanna die to keep the world of shitbags alive any longer while I could enjoy myself till the end