I’d have to ask a ton of questions, and really look at best case/worst case scenarios for the answers I couldn’t get. I really don’t think that amount of money would be worth the moral peril, but I supposed adjusted to inflation, it could probably get me out of debt, which would mean that my standard of living and my ability to be more generous and charitable could increase dramatically, so a lot would have to depend on what downsides might exist to pressing the button (on a global scale). And the degree to which I’d be willing to take the risk that I was doing a net bad thing, assuming I couldn’t assuage all my fears I suppose could in some small way be impacted by the amount of good I could do in my own life and for others with the amount of money being offered. Basically, I’d have to try to discern whether this would be a net good or net bad thing. Maybe I’m killing someone who would die anyway. Maybe I’m killing someone who would do great things in the world.
Maybe I’m killing someone who really deserves to die…I suppose I’d have no way of knowing this. Heck, if I don’t press it, will the next person who does kill the same person, or am I actually sparing someone’s life by not pressing it? You gotta think through these things, man! I see moral peril to either way of doing things, and that doesn’t even count the money.
Maybe it’s part of the circle of life (cue crappy Elton John music here).Īs with all things, being an Accountant, I have to kind of do a cost/benefit/risk analysis. I mean, is this part of the cosmic rules of how things work? If I press the button am I offing someone at random, or is it the last person who pressed the button (or someone who pressed it in the past), in other words am I in some way making myself part of this pool of people? Or maybe this is the way deaths are decided…every time a button gets pressed, someone dies (and every time a bell rings, and Angel gets its wings). And of course the catch in the show was that after the button was swapped for cash, the button was going to go to another person, assuredly someone “they didn’t know.” In the original version of the story, it is actually the woman’s husband who dies, and it is is explained that “she never really knew her husband.” You always have to remember, when you make a deal with the Devil, you’re going to get tricked.īut in the show version they made it pretty explicit that it wouldn’t just be “someone they didn’t know”, but “a complete stranger”.
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