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Suppose you came across two buttons in the middle of somewhere of unimportance. One of these buttons will give you everything you've ever wanted, hoped for, dreamed, as well as place you in a position of extreme power and influence but end the entire universe in 20 years.

The other button would cleanse the planet of all the stupidity, crime, illnesses, defects, and whathaveyou in humanity, all the environmental problems on the planet, etc. But you would live in constant torment and suffering while you died slowly for 20 years, at which point you finally dropped dead.

Which button would you press?

The first button, of course.

I thought you said there were 2 buttons?

Might as well give everyone and myself a utopia for 20 years. I see no point in suffering for a utopia when human deuche bags will just ruin it in five years.

Might as well give everyone and myself a utopia for 20 years. I see no point in suffering for a utopia when human deuche bags will just ruin it in five years.

Impossible, because the part of humanity that screws up everything would be gone upon pressing the button.

I thought you said there were 2 buttons?

I did say there were two buttons. >_>

Impossible, because the part of humanity that screws up everything would be gone upon pressing the button.



I did say there were two buttons. >_>

What's the second option?

Everything I'd ever hoped for was for the world to be cleansed of "all the stupidity, crime, illnesses, defects, and whathaveyou in humanity," etc. and if I'm dead in 20 years in both options, and the first option doesn't guarantee that I won't be in constant torment and suffering (I think if you achieved everything you ever wanted to, the next 20 years would be pretty tough/boring), then the only difference between the two options is whether, after 20 years, I want to let the rest of the world to continue to live in paradise?

Oh wait, fuck that. The second button helps the environment. I'm pushing the first button...

Suppose you came across two buttons in the middle of somewhere of unimportance. One of these buttons will give you everything you've ever wanted, hoped for, dreamed, as well as place you in a position of extreme power and influence but end the entire universe in 20 years.

The other button would cleanse the planet of all the stupidity, crime, illnesses, defects, and whathaveyou in humanity, all the environmental problems on the planet, etc. But you would live in constant torment and suffering while you died slowly for 20 years, at which point you finally dropped dead.

Which button would you press?

I'd whip out my Berreta and shoot the buttons, then ask myself how I somehow managed to be on something when I never drink or take any drugs and walk away.

*presses the first button*

I would not push either button, because I don't want to choose between pushing button 1 or 2.

Both at the same time.

I win.

Both at the same time.

I win.
That's what I was gonna say.

All or nothing.

First one. :D

I thought you said there were 2 buttons?

Quoted for hilarity.

Second one, there is a fair chance it will take me out in the cleansing and I won't actually have to suffer the torture after all.

-Or-

The second button so that someone doesn't come along and press the first.

Not really, I don't know what criteria either uses for their decisions so I don't trust the buttons.

Everything I've ever wanted, dreamed, etc. is inextricably bound up with the struggle for a just and free society.

If I press the first button, I will never get what I truly want... and if I press the second, I will always have the happiness and contentment of knowing that, when pressed, I made the only choice that is morally acceptable.

The question is, therefore, unanswerable.

I would bring and convince someone on his deathbed or about to commit suicide to press the second button.

I would randomly poke at them with a long stick.

Impossible, because the part of humanity that screws up everything would be gone upon pressing the button.
So pressing that button would wipe out the entire humanity now. While pressing the first button would wipe out humanity 20 years from now. I'd press none of them and try to make sure nobody else did either.

Pushing a button to solve all problems personal or global wouldn't teach anyone anything. Solving problems the hard way is the way to learn something and come out stronger from it. So even if the buttons skipped the doomsday part I still wouldn't push them.

Button A.

I'm not pushing the second button... humanity can go screw itself (oh wait... it is). As for the first, I want to live in a paradise and retain my humanity, thus upon pushing the button the universe would probably explode. So I don't push either button.

EDIT: Can I get someone I don't like, grab their hand and make them push the second button?

what do you mean by "cleanse the planet"? do all the sick and stupid die? if so, not pressing that one, as much as I hate stupid people, almost all of my family is chronically ill.

What I want is for the planet to be cleansed of stupidity. Problem solved. *presses the first button*

Neither. I don't want a position of extreme power and influence, nor do I want to die painfully over the course of twenty years.

What I want is for the planet to be cleansed of stupidity. Problem solved.

*presses the first button*
Bye bye Ifreann. ;)

So, we hold a gay funeral near the second button and when Fred Phelps shows up to protest, he accidentally steps on the second button and...

:D

Suppose you came across two buttons in the middle of somewhere of unimportance. One of these buttons will give you everything you've ever wanted, hoped for, dreamed, as well as place you in a position of extreme power and influence but end the entire universe in 20 years.

The other button would cleanse the planet of all the stupidity, crime, illnesses, defects, and whathaveyou in humanity, all the environmental problems on the planet, etc. But you would live in constant torment and suffering while you died slowly for 20 years, at which point you finally dropped dead.

Which button would you press?

Depends, if the first button will make me omnipotent, which is what I want, I press it.

If not the second one and then suicide.

The first button, duh. Part of what I want involves the ability to travel to alternate Universes (and, obviously, for alternate universes to actually exist), so I'd get all the good stuff and leave you losers holding the bag in 20 years time.

Suppose you came across two buttons in the middle of somewhere of unimportance. One of these buttons will give you everything you've ever wanted, hoped for, dreamed, as well as place you in a position of extreme power and influence but end the entire universe in 20 years.

The other button would cleanse the planet of all the stupidity, crime, illnesses, defects, and whathaveyou in humanity, all the environmental problems on the planet, etc. But you would live in constant torment and suffering while you died slowly for 20 years, at which point you finally dropped dead.

Which button would you press?

The second, unless by the fact that the first gives me everything I ever wanted will allow me to stop the end of the Universe, thus invalidating the catch.

Bye bye Ifreann. ;)

I don't see why you're saying goodbye, you're coming with me.

I don't see why you're saying goodbye, you're coming with me.
Ah, good point. :(

i think i would walk on by. i don't have the mental faculties to make such a decision.

Suppose you came across two buttons in the middle of somewhere of unimportance. One of these buttons will give you everything you've ever wanted, hoped for, dreamed, as well as place you in a position of extreme power and influence but end the entire universe in 20 years.

The other button would cleanse the planet of all the stupidity, crime, illnesses, defects, and whathaveyou in humanity, all the environmental problems on the planet, etc. But you would live in constant torment and suffering while you died slowly for 20 years, at which point you finally dropped dead.

Which button would you press?
neither.

Suppose you came across two buttons in the middle of somewhere of unimportance. One of these buttons will give you everything you've ever wanted, hoped for, dreamed, as well as place you in a position of extreme power and influence but end the entire universe in 20 years.

The other button would cleanse the planet of all the stupidity, crime, illnesses, defects, and whathaveyou in humanity, all the environmental problems on the planet, etc. But you would live in constant torment and suffering while you died slowly for 20 years, at which point you finally dropped dead.

Which button would you press?

I'd press the second button.

Assuming, of course, that the rules were both binding, and reasonable. Example: 'defects' doesn't include anything stupid, like not-being-white, being a woman, or having a certain sexual inclination.