If you would instantly receive a million dollars with the trade-off being that someone you don't know dies...would you do it?
Does the likelihood increase if more money was offered? (Would you do it for 2 million? 3? etc...)
I have a theory that everyone has a price (myself included). I used to be idealistic, but not so much any more. Don't get me wrong - I have a really strong sense of loyalty...but everyone has a price.
To diffuse how I've made myself sound like a modern-day Judas, let's introduce another thought experiment I've put together:
Would you allow your parents to be killed for a million dollars? Probably not. They raised you and you can't really put a value on them.
But what if you were offered a billion dollars?
With that billion, you could either:
- cure AIDS
- cure cancer
- propagate world peace
- stop global warming
- stop world hunger
- buy real books for the haitian children in make-shift schools under a tree
- adopt the abandoned cat named Agnes who's missing two legs and now rolls around with a wheelchair as its hind legs
- pay to put people like Hervie in a grade 2 workshop/introductory course for very basic grammar (because apparently, at this age, "shit" styll has a y in it)
- buy Adrian a real car (because his Bimmer sucks...ha)
- devise a plan to meet Heidi Klum so you can ask her how the hell she fell in love with Seal
- (I should probably stop now before I get carried away)
- or any other worldly ambition for the quest of good that you might have
If you could find a way to resurrect your parents, would you do it?
• If no, then you're now responsible for the millions who will die from aids in the next couple of years.
• If yes, you've (somewhat) betrayed your parents and have betrayed your own principles.
What do you have to lose if you can find a way to resurrect your parents to the exact state that they were in before they died?
So now comes the idealism & integrity...and I'm just a kid trying to figure out where I stand.
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• If yes, you've (somewhat) betrayed your parents and have betrayed your own principles.
What do you have to lose if you can find a way to resurrect your parents to the exact state that they were in before they died?
So now comes the idealism & integrity...and I'm just a kid trying to figure out where I stand.
- knowledge
