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Old 10-12-2007, 04:39 PM
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Default Re: how many people would you kill to save your child\'s life?

Impossible to answer until you face the question, but I would guess it would be either 0 or ~6billion.
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Old 10-12-2007, 05:11 PM
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Do I have to stop pushing after my child is saved?

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haha
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Old 10-12-2007, 06:28 PM
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i think this thread might have been done before, but not in this forum. You can push a button and it will kill a bunch of random or your child dies. What is the highest number of people you would kill to save your child?

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Stop advocating murder through insane plots that have nothing to do with reality.
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Old 10-12-2007, 06:42 PM
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i think this thread might have been done before, but not in this forum. You can push a button and it will kill a bunch of random or your child dies. What is the highest number of people you would kill to save your child?

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Stop advocating murder through insane plots that have nothing to do with reality.

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why doesn't this have to do with reality? how am i advocating murder?
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Old 10-12-2007, 07:00 PM
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i think this thread might have been done before, but not in this forum. You can push a button and it will kill a bunch of random or your child dies. What is the highest number of people you would kill to save your child?

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Stop advocating murder through insane plots that have nothing to do with reality.

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Why?
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Old 10-12-2007, 07:34 PM
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Default Re: how many people would you kill to save your child\'s life?

2.73 or 6 or 24.548 or maybe 7.438. Also I guess collateral damage would need to be considered so take the square root of each number and multiply by 3.11116 and divide by .92413.
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Old 10-12-2007, 07:50 PM
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Default Re: how many people would you kill to save your child\'s life?

It depends.

If I'm an African with 14 children, one really doesn't matter.

Ehh....

The Rwandan's didn't really give a [censored] a few years ago..
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Old 10-12-2007, 08:15 PM
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i think this thread might have been done before, but not in this forum. You can push a button and it will kill a bunch of random or your child dies. What is the highest number of people you would kill to save your child?

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Stop advocating murder through insane plots that have nothing to do with reality.

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why doesn't this have to do with reality?

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A machine once built that tries to murder your child unless it murders a random number of other people and you are somehow in control of the number generator?

And you are seriously asking me what this does not have to do with reality?


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how am i advocating murder?

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1. Make people believe that life is about kill or be killed; and leave this assumption unquestioned.

2. Portray aggression as self-defense.



It's a standard collectivist tool.
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Old 10-13-2007, 01:08 AM
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i think this thread might have been done before, but not in this forum. You can push a button and it will kill a bunch of random or your child dies. What is the highest number of people you would kill to save your child?

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Stop advocating murder through insane plots that have nothing to do with reality.

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why doesn't this have to do with reality?

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A machine once built that tries to murder your child unless it murders a random number of other people and you are somehow in control of the number generator?

And you are seriously asking me what this does not have to do with reality?


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how am i advocating murder?

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1. Make people believe that life is about kill or be killed; and leave this assumption unquestioned.

2. Portray aggression as self-defense.



It's a standard collectivist tool.

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Dude, you are seriously a lunatic. It's called a throught experiment, of course it isn't set in "reality". You pick the dumbest times to be a nit.
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Old 10-13-2007, 01:12 AM
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sidetrack: would you push a button that gives you a billion dollars cash?

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If I knew the billion dollars was going to be compiled by randomly stealing it from other people, no.

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it's conjured out of thin air.

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well then i would go for the $1B. what moral trap did i just step into? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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