cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/37546528
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If you could push a button that gives you a hundred thousand dollars but a random person dies, would you do it?
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Interesting thought experiment… intuitively, I’d say no, but it’s worth thinking about… it’s a genuine moral dilemma in a capitalist world: there’s a dialectic between our desires and the common good…
MEANWHILE, BILLIONAIRES
[an orange guy in a suit is shown with a terrifying grin pushing as many buttons as possible at once on a table, slamming one of the buttons, and even using their foot to press an extra one]https://thebad.website/comic/the_totally_hypothetical_button_thought_experiment
Nobel had his brother exploded by the nitroglycerine
formula he created, so for certain disgustingly wealthy folks, it really do be just ‘a random person dies’ matter.EDIT: sorry, not one of Nobel’s later formulations, it was actually just straight nitroglycerine. Alfred Nobel would later stabilize it with diatomaceous earth and then, much later, with cotton.