This has inaccurate implications about human nature. Replace "a million dollars" with "ten bucks" and leave everything else the same and the implications are more accurate.
To depict corporate nature, replace "a million dollars" with "three tenths of one cent" and replace the man doing the clicking with a machine the pushes the button one hundred times a second.
Just because we think you're right doesn't mean we don't think it's cynical. Or maybe pessimistic is a better term? Reality is usually pretty cynical. Or at least, it is when it concerns corporations.
I think you hit the nail on the head with this one!
I wouldn't press the button for fear that the person they would kill would be me or a family member. People lie, therefore, offering me a million dollars to end someone's life seems like a trap to see if I could do it and I couldn't.
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Date: 2010-04-27 01:35 am (UTC)To depict corporate nature, replace "a million dollars" with "three tenths of one cent" and replace the man doing the clicking with a machine the pushes the button one hundred times a second.
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Date: 2010-04-27 05:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-27 04:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-27 06:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-04-27 06:55 pm (UTC)Fair enough.
Yes...
Date: 2010-04-27 06:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-27 10:37 am (UTC)and "somone will die" with "a child will be disfigured for life"
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Date: 2010-04-27 01:06 pm (UTC)I wouldn't press the button for fear that the person they would kill would be me or a family member. People lie, therefore, offering me a million dollars to end someone's life seems like a trap to see if I could do it and I couldn't.
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Date: 2010-04-30 01:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-30 08:02 pm (UTC)See? It WAS a trap! I think there was a movie out with the same premise. I'm not sure how it ended though.