The totally hypothetical button thought experiment
The totally hypothetical button thought experiment
[blue]If you could push a button that gives you a hundred thousand dollars but a random person dies, would you do it? [yellow, cautious]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]
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