Re: What price for friendship: $100 for you or $1000 for a friend?
 

Right now? $20k, unfortunately is likely. $100k, yeah, I'm taking it to get out of hock.

Normally, my eight-figure integrity rule might get bent for the $1M. Anything under I'd be able to shrug off.

Re: What price for friendship: $100 for you or $1000 for a friend?
 

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A stranger on the street approaches you offers you $100 but if you accept one of your best friends will not be given $1000. They will not find out about your deal, you can't tell them or they will lose the $1000.


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So who's guaranteeing any of your friends will get 1000 to begin with? All the question states is that "one of your friends" won't get 1k, it doesn't say that all of them probably wont either.

Re: What price for friendship: $100 for you or $1000 for a friend?
 

a few of my good friends are addicted to drugs, so id have to take the money or they would OD

Re: What price for friendship: $100 for you or $1000 for a friend?
 

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I'm a utilitarian.

I think that the overall happiness that my friend will gain from 10x the money that I am passing up is significantly greater than the amount of happiness that I will gain from 1/10y of the money that my friend could gain.

I might be able to reconcile this if I was getting 9mil to his 10mil but at 1/10 there is no chance as his utility would be so much greater than the utility I am passing up.

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cornel,

chalk me up as a skeptic that you actually are a utilitarian as you describe above.

do you give a massive majority of all your money to the needy? etc.

Re: What price for friendship: $100 for you or $1000 for a friend?
 

i chose a million because thats enough money that i'm like 'wow either of us becomes ridiculously rich this way and since i fell into this situation it might as well be me'.

BTW I realise a million isn't even considered ridiculously rich these but its still an unreal amount of money to either person to just be given, and i belive the positives/negatives associated with 1 mil aren't that dif to 10 mil (EG you could take off 5 years and do nothing but drugs or u could use the money to basically break into whatever area of expertise you want by working at it all day rather than getting a job and having to develop your own business in your spare time etc).