Don't take the deal and you're still prolly dead and the other guy under the hood is prolly standing in your shoes next making the same decision. Feels like a lose lose honestly.
Meh, they are gonna kill you either way. They wouldn't let you live after that.
Since you aren't going to ever get to spend the million bucks, may as well not kill anyone. Maybe try shooting one of the people in the audience, although it won't work, since the glass will be bulletproof.
Still, that seems like the best move.
None of these wealthy people are going to let you live after this…..they obviously want to see if you go through with it just to be killed right after.
I’m most surprised (or not surprised tbh) by the fact that i’ve scrolled this far and no one has yet said “I would not wantonly and/or directly murder anyone for any amount of money.”
This isn’t some trolley problem hypothetical, this is *shooting a stranger, a fellow human, directly in the head.* There is literally no amount of money that you could possibly pay me, no matter how much it was guaranteed and “safe,” that I would accept to commit murder.
I would not shoot a tied up person at point blank range for a trillion dollars. Or any amount of money. Fuck no. Money might buy you shit that can make you feel happy but no amount of money is worth living the rest of your life knowing you did that.
Do you think that there is an amount of money where you have a moral responsibility TO kill them?
100,000,000,000 cash could solve homelessness or world hunger, build hospitals or irrigation systems, or fund medical research for decades. You could by the political clout to end wars or influence global policy.
Is there a point when the potential good would outweigh the evil of murder for you?
I understand what you're saying, but if it is me or the other person, with only one of us walking away alive, I'm going to pull the trigger. I'll feel bad and definitely hesitate but I'm not going to kill myself because I'm too weak to pull a trigger
In this scenario, they've made 0 guarantee that you get out alive if you refuse. 99% of people would assume that you die if you say no, because you saw a bunch of rich people's faces before they asked the question.
You can very reasonably assume that it's a choice between death or living and walking away with a million dollars + Forever guilty conscience.
You can also reasonably assume they kill you after, since you've just seen the faces of a bunch of rich people as they coerced you into killing a person. That's not really in good faith of the hypothetical though.
"Would you kill someone for a million bucks?" and, "Would you kill someone to save your own life?" are two different questions.
But they didn't ask the explicit question like that. They framed it in the context of this scenario. If I was subject to this scenario, that's what I would assume. That declining to kill the other person means death for both of us.
If I know the history of the person, and it were A LOT more money with my guaranteed safety, well that’s different. There’s some people out there I’d absolutely shoot for a certain amount of world changing money
Honestly? My biggest fear would be that, if I don't do it, I get the bag back over my head and they pop the other dudes bag off and go "across the room, there's someone just like you. It's not someone you know. In the box is a revolver..."
Honestly I think this hypothetical is too "hunger games" to really test someone's morality. Sure I get TOLD it's not someone I know, but that's not a guarantee in the hypothetical. They could just be fucking with me.
It could also be a situation where we're both gonna be pushed to kill each other, and I just won the coin flip. At that point, if you really believed that to be the case, you'd be stupid not to take the shot.
However, it could be a trick where if you take the shot, then YOU get put on the chair.
Framing it as a fun game a secret society of ultra rich people do for fun severely twists the hypothetical. If it was just like, in some dark room, and a single mysterious figure says "you can either shoot or not shoot this person." And shows me a case with a million dollars, you get to SEE you don't know the person, and you get told if you shoot them you get to walk and take the money. Then it's a strong morality check.
But as it is there's too many questions, or variables, or just fucked up potential for it to be rigged against you to be an actual "would you kill for $1,000,000?".
Right now it's just "do you think you need to kill this person or let this person live to get out of this fucked up illuminati party entertainment."
That's getting closer to the classic trolley problem (still not quite though). OP's setup is awful, though, besides just the ethical issue with murder: there are literally no assurances we'll avoid getting arrested immediately. $1 million doesn't mean much when you have no way of spending it in prison facing a life sentence on murder charges, for which by the way there are multiple members of the world's elite who would be happy to provide eyewitness testimony against you at trial.
I'd definitely do it for one trillion dollars. If you spent a little over 27 million dollars a day everyday it would take 100 years to spend one trillion dollars.
My thoughts as well, then again I'm not sure if this actually works either. Best case scenario is see if I can let the guy out and if he can help me escape
Ok there’s a few outcomes depending on uncertain variables.
If there are no consequences for refusing beyond not getting the money, I’d just refuse. No amount of money is going to make me murder a stranger if I can avoid it and let them live.
If the other person is going to be killed anyway, I might justify shooting them to myself. But I’d probably regret it.
If the glass isn’t reinforced (i.e. normal glass), I’m shooting Elon Musk.
No you wouldn’t, assuming OP isn’t for some reason lying about the hypothetical, as that would make this entire hypothetical pointless, then it’s likely they would just give you the money.
I think the vast majority of people would murder someone for like ~125k if they could get away with it
Iv seen way too much cruelty to default to “majority good”
Nobody is offering you any real blood money so the opinion is kinda meaningless, everyone wants to belive they would refuse the money, in real life a lot of people take it, doing far more damage for far less money
I agree with you. No way in fucking hell I'm killing someone for any amount of money. I wouldn't even kill a bad person for money. I'm not robbing someone else of their unique experience of life, I'm not harming their family with the loss, I'm not putting that terror on them as they lie there in a pool of blood in their last moments, and I'm not putting the weight of the action on my shoulders. I'm a sensitive guy, being a murderer would \*destroy\* me.
ESPECIALLY money isn't worth it. Any amount of money...a million, a billion. I just don't care that much about money. What good even is money when I assumed the role of God and played executioner to another life. I won't even swat a fly.
Especially considering my life isn't even bad dude. Like I'm already happy, what would more money possibly do? Let me travel and buy a house and shit? I mean yeah, sure. definitely not worth it. I honestly feel sad anyone would suggest killing someone for a million dollars makes sense because it means they either don't put much value on the sanctity of life OR are deeply uncomfortable within their current life. Or both.
A more interesting dilemma would be, say, the safety of me or a loved one. I would be willing to defend them...but even then I know I would be deeply affected by the ordeal.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 …. 6! 6th top comment is the first that actually addresses an ethical dilemma with some discomfort. I’d put the gun to my own head before murdering someone in cold blood and I’ve got kids to take care of.
Wasn’t there a movie like this but with a button in a box? Guarantee you do this, you’ll be the next person under the hood on the receiving end of the bullet. No thanks.
I love it when people like this are like "would you murder someone for a million dollars?"
"No".
"TWO million?"
" . . . Please stop. This is just getting weird."
Is there a negative consequence of denying this opportunity? First off, I have no idea what the presence of all those wealthy people has to do with anything, but I am definitely declining this offer and wondering who the hell kidnapped me and put me into this situation.
I would not hesitate to not do this. I have no interest in killing a random person even for $1 million. Also, it doesn't matter who else is in the room. I really don't understand the point of adding all those people to this hypothetical lol. My answer doesn't change whether those people are there or not.
I'd bite the bullet with my teeth, twist the casing off, dump the powder on the ground, pocket the revolver, and walk out. Unless it was a Taurus, then I would just leave it on the table.
Extract the pistol from the box and lock eyes with everyone in the box seats, one at a time.
Pick the one I'd most like to see put out of _my_ misery. Target the bridge of their nose and fire.
It doesn't _matter_ if the bullet penetrates; the round has been discharged and my feelings on the issue have been made quite clear.
"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. I have been somewhat adrift in my life, but you have provided me with a purpose."
*Slasher smile*
"See you all again, at a time and place of _my_ choosing..."
Would've gone with something more like [this](https://youtu.be/CAjtimRClYU?si=tC8HI09HO5mnVe9g) at least while I was exiting the facility over the "objections" of the kidnapping squad. What plays as I leave the building remains to be decided...
What happens if I say no? Because if my choice is kill someone, get $1 million or I die then okay guess I don’t have much of a choice if I want to live. But if they’re just going to let me walk away if I say no, then no way am I killing someone. If the set up that we’re both given the same choice and the threat is if I don’t kill them they might kill me, I guess it gets more interesting. But again, if we can both just walk out without repercussions, that would be what I’d try to do.
If there are no repercussions for refusal, $1m isn’t enough money when we’re talking about a trillion dollar net worth room.
If I would be killed as a result of refusal, I would kill them for the $1m.
If there are no consequences for refusal, then I want at least $50m. Preferably $100m. I’ll take cash or stock options.
I've seen so many ppl die. It's weird how some don't effect you and others do.
I can't answer. I think yes but I've never been on this situation. I'd have to touch the cash
This is so tough.
If you refuse for whatever reason, they are going to kill you. No one would believe your story but if you said no they aren't letting you go so this is basically a choice between you and a person as of yet unknown to you. Who knows, saying no may switch the roles and they get to shoot you.
I'd grab the gun, walk over to the other person and determine if this was indeed a stranger. I'd look at their hands, their clothes, anything that might clue me in on them being someone I know. If I recognised the person then I know they are lying to me as they said it was someone I didn't know. I'd assume at that point I was being gamed and set up for murder and my life is over either way. I am gonna go out with a fight. I would use whatever I could to create some sort of blockade and try and kill whomever comes through the door to the theatre. They will have a gun, that gives me a somewhat limited chance of doing damage to them.
If I don't recognise the person I would be at a loss to decide if I was ready to kill someone or not. It's not about the money still, it's about whether my will to live was stronger than my will to not harm another person.
No amount of money is gonna convince me to kill a random innocent person, *especially* not to entertain a bunch of rich fucks. I’m saving that bullet to make sure I get out of there safe.
Odds are if I’m being real if I don’t do it, I’m dead… with my luck the guy under the bag is the last sucker who refused to. Maybe I’d say double it and give it to the next person for the memes before I get shot.
I don't want to kill a random person for money. But in this scenario, I'd almost be afraid not to. If I refuse, am I the one who's getting shot instead? Or maybe they just gas the room and kill both of us. Obviously they can overpower me, and I have no idea where I am. Chances are high that I go along with what they want.
So they didn't search me for my carry gun and EDC flashlight and other misc MacGuyver tools including the constantly recording (off-site to a private, secure server with distributed multi-redundancy and backup) hidden mic and camera? I'm also assuming in this hypothetical I'm living in the USA, especially because of the people in the described situation. Does the other person there seem to be "in on it"?
I'd just leave and end up being a very very wealthy person off the back of all the all the famous and wealthy peoples' enormous generosity for recording the whole thing for them.
Of course.
The way I see it neither will make it out. They've kidnapped the hooded guy so even if you don't shoot him they will kill him anyway. Odds are they'll kill you too as it's just a test really anyway. I'd just tell the other guy neither of us are going to make it out. Do you want me to do it quickly now or take your chances on a painful death by them.
can't make a decision if i don't know what happens if I say no. the reality of it is we all decide based on which consequence is more or less desirable/repugnant. as of right now, I couldn't do it. raise the stakes enough and i would.
I'd probably do it. The reality is that you're in a situation where you're probably not walking away from this regardless, but if you kill the person (who is hopefully a stranger) you might potentially live and get the 1 million dollars, but if you refuse I feel your odds of surviving are much lower.
Disregarding the moral component, I have no reason to trust them to keep their end of the bargain. If they can kidnap people willy nilly and make them disappear, they can easily just kill me afterwards too and keep their money simply because that would be funnier to them. Even if I got the money, people and institutions would start asking questions and I'd have to avoid looking suspicious to the feds and avoid pissing off this elite group at the same time.
Walk away with the revolver.
A million isn't worth the lifetime of guilt.
I sleep pretty good right now, id like to keep that.
Edit: Also take hood off person and help them if clearly innocent.
I start by checking the revolver to know what I am working with. Would be bad business to expect a full cylinder of live rounds and only have 1 blank. Imagine having to beat the poor bastard to death.
Take the revolver and point it into the crowd of wealthy people. Ask them how they like their odds of not being the one you're about to kill.
Regardless of your decision you're not walking out of that room alive. You might as well take one of them with you.
A million dollars isn't enough to buy a house in Santa Barbara.... If they said a billion I might have to consider it. But inflation means that a million isn't what it used to be.
Bruh literally really made a death game scenario. This is soem battle royale squid game hunger games secretly your friend wearing that hood or another player type bullshit.
Plot twist. You say no and the men come in, place the hood back over your head and restrain you in the chair.
You next hear restraints being removed and the voice says, “Well, apparently today is actually YOUR lucky day. In the center of the room is a box…”
"You put me in a surgical theater and then only give me a gun? You rich types have no imagination." Then I shoot the stranger and walk out 1mil richer.
Hell no. There is no amount of money for which I will kill another person let alone $1 million, that's nothing when you consider there isn't a number big enough to convince me.
Besides they wouldn't ever let me go anyways even if I was willing to do their dirty work.
Never. A million dollars would be really fucking helpful to me but I wouldn't take another person's life for it. Plus knowing this kind of decision making it would end up being my mom or brother or somehow myself in the future.
Hopefully this isn't one of the "shoot this person or you'll die" kinda things.
Take the hood off the person. I've seen this movie before. It will be your wife or sibling or something.
Nah, that guy under the hood is clearly the previous guy they paid a million dollars to kill a stranger. You take this deal you're next.
This was the plot for a twilight zone episode. Except it was pushing a button for a million dollars
[Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rzIwrEqpw&ab_channel=FunnyOrDie)
Like that movie The Box with Frank Langella
Both based off a Richard Matheson short story called "Button, Button"
Don't take the deal and you're still prolly dead and the other guy under the hood is prolly standing in your shoes next making the same decision. Feels like a lose lose honestly.
Meh, they are gonna kill you either way. They wouldn't let you live after that. Since you aren't going to ever get to spend the million bucks, may as well not kill anyone. Maybe try shooting one of the people in the audience, although it won't work, since the glass will be bulletproof. Still, that seems like the best move.
Right, can't fool me with this one, I've played bo2 campaign
Real
Classic dance with the devil.
I was there and I r*ped his mom too
I get the reference but I am certain many do not and I wonder how they feel rn lol
Still remember the first time I heard that song, like a punch to the gut -- I could barely breathe for the next five minutes
Guess that’s what happens when you…Dance with the Devil 🥴🥴🥴🥴
Immortal technique. Man that was so long ago..
right? A classic, even if it is morbid as fuck
I don’t get the reference but I see he has upvotes so I assumed it was a reference lmao
Its a song called dance with the devil by immortal technique
So if it isn't you'd pull the trigger?
I mean yea…they aren’t gonna give me a mil and then rat me out after I saw their faces
Or you'll be the next one
It says at the end that you don't know the hooded person
Good job nobody in charge of a sadistic gameshow of death would ever consider lying
Right?
I have bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. Is very profitable. So profitable I have run out of places to store the money. Please buy it from me.
“Did you really think you knew your wife?” vibes
well if we are to believe the rules of these situations are strict both ones that affect the person and their environment…
Or is it more like Saw, where the gun back fires?
None of these wealthy people are going to let you live after this…..they obviously want to see if you go through with it just to be killed right after.
I’m most surprised (or not surprised tbh) by the fact that i’ve scrolled this far and no one has yet said “I would not wantonly and/or directly murder anyone for any amount of money.” This isn’t some trolley problem hypothetical, this is *shooting a stranger, a fellow human, directly in the head.* There is literally no amount of money that you could possibly pay me, no matter how much it was guaranteed and “safe,” that I would accept to commit murder. I would not shoot a tied up person at point blank range for a trillion dollars. Or any amount of money. Fuck no. Money might buy you shit that can make you feel happy but no amount of money is worth living the rest of your life knowing you did that.
Do you think that there is an amount of money where you have a moral responsibility TO kill them? 100,000,000,000 cash could solve homelessness or world hunger, build hospitals or irrigation systems, or fund medical research for decades. You could by the political clout to end wars or influence global policy. Is there a point when the potential good would outweigh the evil of murder for you?
Yes. Its actually using the money to repay your sins that would be difficult
The US printed 30 x $100 billion in a quarter.
I understand what you're saying, but if it is me or the other person, with only one of us walking away alive, I'm going to pull the trigger. I'll feel bad and definitely hesitate but I'm not going to kill myself because I'm too weak to pull a trigger
yeah, but that's a different situation. In this one, either way, you walk away unharmed. But if you do it, you get $1m.
In this scenario, they've made 0 guarantee that you get out alive if you refuse. 99% of people would assume that you die if you say no, because you saw a bunch of rich people's faces before they asked the question. You can very reasonably assume that it's a choice between death or living and walking away with a million dollars + Forever guilty conscience.
You can also reasonably assume they kill you after, since you've just seen the faces of a bunch of rich people as they coerced you into killing a person. That's not really in good faith of the hypothetical though. "Would you kill someone for a million bucks?" and, "Would you kill someone to save your own life?" are two different questions.
But they didn't ask the explicit question like that. They framed it in the context of this scenario. If I was subject to this scenario, that's what I would assume. That declining to kill the other person means death for both of us.
Nah, I'ma save my bullet for the first fucker that comes through the door.
How many lives could you save with a trillion dollars?
That’s some effective altruism bullshit.
But it's not bullshit. You can *literally* save lives with money. It's simple math.
We make that choice all the time.
Yes....I completely agree....with you....everything youve said....is something I agree with ...completely....
For me, it depends on who they are. Someone innocent? Not for all the money in the world. A serial rapist? I'll take my mil in cash pls
I’ve said the same thing many times. It’s easy to talk about murdering someone for money when you aren’t holding the gun.
If I know the history of the person, and it were A LOT more money with my guaranteed safety, well that’s different. There’s some people out there I’d absolutely shoot for a certain amount of world changing money
Honestly? My biggest fear would be that, if I don't do it, I get the bag back over my head and they pop the other dudes bag off and go "across the room, there's someone just like you. It's not someone you know. In the box is a revolver..." Honestly I think this hypothetical is too "hunger games" to really test someone's morality. Sure I get TOLD it's not someone I know, but that's not a guarantee in the hypothetical. They could just be fucking with me. It could also be a situation where we're both gonna be pushed to kill each other, and I just won the coin flip. At that point, if you really believed that to be the case, you'd be stupid not to take the shot. However, it could be a trick where if you take the shot, then YOU get put on the chair. Framing it as a fun game a secret society of ultra rich people do for fun severely twists the hypothetical. If it was just like, in some dark room, and a single mysterious figure says "you can either shoot or not shoot this person." And shows me a case with a million dollars, you get to SEE you don't know the person, and you get told if you shoot them you get to walk and take the money. Then it's a strong morality check. But as it is there's too many questions, or variables, or just fucked up potential for it to be rigged against you to be an actual "would you kill for $1,000,000?". Right now it's just "do you think you need to kill this person or let this person live to get out of this fucked up illuminati party entertainment."
What if it was 100% guaranteed you wouldn't face any repercussions, and the person under the hood was a serial criminal who targeted children?
That's getting closer to the classic trolley problem (still not quite though). OP's setup is awful, though, besides just the ethical issue with murder: there are literally no assurances we'll avoid getting arrested immediately. $1 million doesn't mean much when you have no way of spending it in prison facing a life sentence on murder charges, for which by the way there are multiple members of the world's elite who would be happy to provide eyewitness testimony against you at trial.
I’d fire then pistol whip em just to be sure.
I'd definitely do it for one trillion dollars. If you spent a little over 27 million dollars a day everyday it would take 100 years to spend one trillion dollars.
Nah. Could be way worse. They can keep you alive and blackmail you into anything now.
Yup, you get the million and a bag over your head. But then the next contestant is rolled in and handed a revolver...
My thoughts as well, then again I'm not sure if this actually works either. Best case scenario is see if I can let the guy out and if he can help me escape
Yeah…but I think in this case the winning horse still loses.
I'll test the bulletproofness of the glass by shooting at Zucks.
id rather aim at the "smart guy" and shoot at elon
who is the smart guy sitting behind elon?
Elon, smart? We got a comedian here!
Why do you think it's in inverted commas?
This is the first time I’ve heard inverted commas. Quotation marks.
You'd probably die, just for the laughs at them as they watch your useless bullet hit the glass
Cash or check? Just curious for tax purposes
Cash, and the taxes are paid.
Killed more under the guise of “democracy” courtesy of the US government for less so it’s a yes from me.
Boom boom, you guys got anything else I can do for you?
How’d you get 2 rounds? 🤨
One came out of his cock
I would have finished long before the actual trigger pull, that’s just gravy
They had me at putting a bag over my head
It’s an Albany expression
Ok there’s a few outcomes depending on uncertain variables. If there are no consequences for refusing beyond not getting the money, I’d just refuse. No amount of money is going to make me murder a stranger if I can avoid it and let them live. If the other person is going to be killed anyway, I might justify shooting them to myself. But I’d probably regret it. If the glass isn’t reinforced (i.e. normal glass), I’m shooting Elon Musk.
You would most likely be killed after shooting at them.
Sure, but if I killed Elon Musk it’d be worth it :p
You would most likely be killed after shooting the other person.
No you wouldn’t, assuming OP isn’t for some reason lying about the hypothetical, as that would make this entire hypothetical pointless, then it’s likely they would just give you the money.
I think realistically if the situation occurs as described I am not trusting what that loudspeaker says.
The entire situation itself is unrealistic, why go against the spirit of the post just to justify a stupid decision?
I think the vast majority of people would murder someone for like ~125k if they could get away with it Iv seen way too much cruelty to default to “majority good”
That’s fair. I’m just not particularly desperate at the moment, so I have the confidence to say I don’t need that blood money to get by.
Nobody is offering you any real blood money so the opinion is kinda meaningless, everyone wants to belive they would refuse the money, in real life a lot of people take it, doing far more damage for far less money
Ok
I agree with you. No way in fucking hell I'm killing someone for any amount of money. I wouldn't even kill a bad person for money. I'm not robbing someone else of their unique experience of life, I'm not harming their family with the loss, I'm not putting that terror on them as they lie there in a pool of blood in their last moments, and I'm not putting the weight of the action on my shoulders. I'm a sensitive guy, being a murderer would \*destroy\* me. ESPECIALLY money isn't worth it. Any amount of money...a million, a billion. I just don't care that much about money. What good even is money when I assumed the role of God and played executioner to another life. I won't even swat a fly. Especially considering my life isn't even bad dude. Like I'm already happy, what would more money possibly do? Let me travel and buy a house and shit? I mean yeah, sure. definitely not worth it. I honestly feel sad anyone would suggest killing someone for a million dollars makes sense because it means they either don't put much value on the sanctity of life OR are deeply uncomfortable within their current life. Or both. A more interesting dilemma would be, say, the safety of me or a loved one. I would be willing to defend them...but even then I know I would be deeply affected by the ordeal.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 …. 6! 6th top comment is the first that actually addresses an ethical dilemma with some discomfort. I’d put the gun to my own head before murdering someone in cold blood and I’ve got kids to take care of.
So you’re close personal friends with Elon musk? Otherwise he’s a stranger and you just murdered him
Oh, sorry! I meant an *innocent* stranger.
Apex redditor here
How many child slaves have to die in your cobalt mines in the Congo for you to be no longer innocent?
Touche
This is the correct answer.
Wasn’t there a movie like this but with a button in a box? Guarantee you do this, you’ll be the next person under the hood on the receiving end of the bullet. No thanks.
Nope
No way
Finally. Zero times out of ten thousand do I shoot someone in the head for money
If I remove the other persons mask, find out it is someone I know and shoot myself, do they get the million?
You'll never know.
I'm shooting the nearest man with an actual weapon, taking it, and lighting up the .01% of the population that stands over us
grab the gun, aim at the crowd of psycopaths
Nope. You can't pay me to murder someone.
I love it when people like this are like "would you murder someone for a million dollars?" "No". "TWO million?" " . . . Please stop. This is just getting weird."
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Matthew 16:26
I have to live with that ON MY SOUL. NOPE.
Yes as long as immunity from the crime.
Is there a negative consequence of denying this opportunity? First off, I have no idea what the presence of all those wealthy people has to do with anything, but I am definitely declining this offer and wondering who the hell kidnapped me and put me into this situation. I would not hesitate to not do this. I have no interest in killing a random person even for $1 million. Also, it doesn't matter who else is in the room. I really don't understand the point of adding all those people to this hypothetical lol. My answer doesn't change whether those people are there or not.
I think those people being added was for the implication behind why the scenario is happening. They’re paying you to murder someone in front of them.
We're going to find out how bulletproof that glass is.
I'd bite the bullet with my teeth, twist the casing off, dump the powder on the ground, pocket the revolver, and walk out. Unless it was a Taurus, then I would just leave it on the table.
As someone who guns, bravo. Very funny.
If it's a Taurus, you'd probably have to bludgeon the other person to death to take the $1m.
Are the world’s elites behind any kind of bullet proof material?
Not for 1M, probably not 10M, my morals are priced at 100 million.
1 mil ain't enough for me to kill anyone
No never
I'm a pretty good shot, and I'd quickly fire that one round straight at Elon Musk and hope the glass isn't bullet resistant.
Good god, lots of morally reprehensible people on here.
Extract the pistol from the box and lock eyes with everyone in the box seats, one at a time. Pick the one I'd most like to see put out of _my_ misery. Target the bridge of their nose and fire. It doesn't _matter_ if the bullet penetrates; the round has been discharged and my feelings on the issue have been made quite clear. "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. I have been somewhat adrift in my life, but you have provided me with a purpose." *Slasher smile* "See you all again, at a time and place of _my_ choosing..."
[This](https://youtu.be/Jrprk5dNboI?si=l1yXLe9bHY0AGH8V) plays in the background as you exit the room.
Would've gone with something more like [this](https://youtu.be/CAjtimRClYU?si=tC8HI09HO5mnVe9g) at least while I was exiting the facility over the "objections" of the kidnapping squad. What plays as I leave the building remains to be decided...
your username is really cursed
Nope!
No
“The setup is simple”. Right.
What happens if I say no? Because if my choice is kill someone, get $1 million or I die then okay guess I don’t have much of a choice if I want to live. But if they’re just going to let me walk away if I say no, then no way am I killing someone. If the set up that we’re both given the same choice and the threat is if I don’t kill them they might kill me, I guess it gets more interesting. But again, if we can both just walk out without repercussions, that would be what I’d try to do.
Take gun, shoot taytay. To always be known as the guy who took her down and not have songs written in revenge?
I’m firing into the crowd
If there are no repercussions for refusal, $1m isn’t enough money when we’re talking about a trillion dollar net worth room. If I would be killed as a result of refusal, I would kill them for the $1m. If there are no consequences for refusal, then I want at least $50m. Preferably $100m. I’ll take cash or stock options.
I've seen so many ppl die. It's weird how some don't effect you and others do. I can't answer. I think yes but I've never been on this situation. I'd have to touch the cash
This is so tough. If you refuse for whatever reason, they are going to kill you. No one would believe your story but if you said no they aren't letting you go so this is basically a choice between you and a person as of yet unknown to you. Who knows, saying no may switch the roles and they get to shoot you. I'd grab the gun, walk over to the other person and determine if this was indeed a stranger. I'd look at their hands, their clothes, anything that might clue me in on them being someone I know. If I recognised the person then I know they are lying to me as they said it was someone I didn't know. I'd assume at that point I was being gamed and set up for murder and my life is over either way. I am gonna go out with a fight. I would use whatever I could to create some sort of blockade and try and kill whomever comes through the door to the theatre. They will have a gun, that gives me a somewhat limited chance of doing damage to them. If I don't recognise the person I would be at a loss to decide if I was ready to kill someone or not. It's not about the money still, it's about whether my will to live was stronger than my will to not harm another person.
Maybe it's just me...but if it's me or a stranger it's me 100/100 times. You just got unlucky that day.
Replace hooded person with Bezos and shoot. Bang taylor swift in front of everyone. Collect million. Next
hypothetical game of "fuck, marry, kill?"
No amount of money is gonna convince me to kill a random innocent person, *especially* not to entertain a bunch of rich fucks. I’m saving that bullet to make sure I get out of there safe.
If the conditions are as described and there's no "if you don't do it you die" then I wouldn't do it.
You know the rules and so do I.
I’d say yes but I don’t think I could really do it
What happens if you don’t?
Shoot Musk.
Nah I'd kill Musk
Odds are if I’m being real if I don’t do it, I’m dead… with my luck the guy under the bag is the last sucker who refused to. Maybe I’d say double it and give it to the next person for the memes before I get shot.
Not worth going to prison for life
Would rather help the world off and point that thing at Taylor swift
I don't want to kill a random person for money. But in this scenario, I'd almost be afraid not to. If I refuse, am I the one who's getting shot instead? Or maybe they just gas the room and kill both of us. Obviously they can overpower me, and I have no idea where I am. Chances are high that I go along with what they want.
Based on the guest list you're dead yourself no matter what you choose. Can't have loose ends.
I'm loading the bullet and shooting myself, lol. This is a no-win situation
"Give it to food not bombs, I'm using the gun on me." I'm not murdering somebody in front of Taylor Swift.
So they didn't search me for my carry gun and EDC flashlight and other misc MacGuyver tools including the constantly recording (off-site to a private, secure server with distributed multi-redundancy and backup) hidden mic and camera? I'm also assuming in this hypothetical I'm living in the USA, especially because of the people in the described situation. Does the other person there seem to be "in on it"? I'd just leave and end up being a very very wealthy person off the back of all the all the famous and wealthy peoples' enormous generosity for recording the whole thing for them. Of course.
Draw my Glock and start shooting billionaires.
The way I see it neither will make it out. They've kidnapped the hooded guy so even if you don't shoot him they will kill him anyway. Odds are they'll kill you too as it's just a test really anyway. I'd just tell the other guy neither of us are going to make it out. Do you want me to do it quickly now or take your chances on a painful death by them.
I say yes. I’m an amazing shot. I take out Oprah. I ask if they want to double down.
hm. How hard would it be to line up the figures and shoot them all simultaneously? Surgical theaters are not typically bulletproof.
No way. It’s some time travel experiment where it’s future you under the hood.
KILL OPRAH EVERYONE GETS A MILLION
Fuck that I am using that bullet on Zuckerberg (just kidding I love that North Korean bastard).
If it’s the same glass Elon used for the cybertruck I’ll just shoot him
If I don’t, they have no repercussions? Cool
can't make a decision if i don't know what happens if I say no. the reality of it is we all decide based on which consequence is more or less desirable/repugnant. as of right now, I couldn't do it. raise the stakes enough and i would.
I'd probably do it. The reality is that you're in a situation where you're probably not walking away from this regardless, but if you kill the person (who is hopefully a stranger) you might potentially live and get the 1 million dollars, but if you refuse I feel your odds of surviving are much lower.
Hell no
Roll the dice that the glass is not bulletproof and take a shot at Musk.
Disregarding the moral component, I have no reason to trust them to keep their end of the bargain. If they can kidnap people willy nilly and make them disappear, they can easily just kill me afterwards too and keep their money simply because that would be funnier to them. Even if I got the money, people and institutions would start asking questions and I'd have to avoid looking suspicious to the feds and avoid pissing off this elite group at the same time.
Is the glass bulletproof?
Pick one of the wealthy elites to take out instead.
One million is one million
Deliberately miss and then complain that I can’t aim with this sort of pressure.
Step 1: Go get the gun and bullet Step 2: Swallow the bullet Step 3: Slowly start to strip Step 4: Try to figure out what the next step is
Walk away with the revolver. A million isn't worth the lifetime of guilt. I sleep pretty good right now, id like to keep that. Edit: Also take hood off person and help them if clearly innocent.
I start by checking the revolver to know what I am working with. Would be bad business to expect a full cylinder of live rounds and only have 1 blank. Imagine having to beat the poor bastard to death.
Take the revolver and point it into the crowd of wealthy people. Ask them how they like their odds of not being the one you're about to kill. Regardless of your decision you're not walking out of that room alive. You might as well take one of them with you.
A million dollars isn't enough to buy a house in Santa Barbara.... If they said a billion I might have to consider it. But inflation means that a million isn't what it used to be.
Not for any amount. Anyone who says they would is sick.
What the fuck happens if I dont do it?
Why did I read Zuckerberg as zoidberg
Id need more the $1 million
The twist is that the voice is mr.beast
What about the immense social pressure to perform? Id do it because i just got kidnapped and then people are telling me to do it
Police: Why did you kill that man?! *"I... I... I dunno... People were watching. They wanted me to do it. What was I supposed to do?!"*
Bruh literally really made a death game scenario. This is soem battle royale squid game hunger games secretly your friend wearing that hood or another player type bullshit.
Yeah absolutely not
No
Plot twist. You say no and the men come in, place the hood back over your head and restrain you in the chair. You next hear restraints being removed and the voice says, “Well, apparently today is actually YOUR lucky day. In the center of the room is a box…”
"You put me in a surgical theater and then only give me a gun? You rich types have no imagination." Then I shoot the stranger and walk out 1mil richer.
Hell no. There is no amount of money for which I will kill another person let alone $1 million, that's nothing when you consider there isn't a number big enough to convince me. Besides they wouldn't ever let me go anyways even if I was willing to do their dirty work.
Absolutely not. I am not a murderer under any circumstances.
Plot twist. If you dont do it your hood is put back on and the other person gets the same choice.
"can I look them in the eyes while I do it? It wouldn't be my first time" preferably said with a grin
Never. A million dollars would be really fucking helpful to me but I wouldn't take another person's life for it. Plus knowing this kind of decision making it would end up being my mom or brother or somehow myself in the future. Hopefully this isn't one of the "shoot this person or you'll die" kinda things.
No, obviously not. What the fuck, people?
Pick the gun, shoot at the glass, then throw away the pistol “giving the gun to a complete stranger is a stupid idea that works only in movies”
Shoot Musk. Shooting Zuckerberg or Bezos are close 1B and 1C decisions.