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Would you kill 10000 people to save the person you love most?

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CurdinHenry · 05/10/2026 19:12

Context -

You would just have to press a button and you wouldn't have to see it happen

You would be guaranteed not to know any of them beforehand

No one would know it was you unless you confessed

Yanbu yes
Yabu no

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Deadlykitten · 06/10/2026 20:10

yes, without question and there is not a maximum number for me

Laura95167 · 06/10/2026 20:13

Wouldn't hesitate.

I think its wrong, but I wouldnt care.

Though there is a film on this premise, I dont remember all the specifics but it was like.. you get a box and if you open it or press the button in it.. something like that you get $1 million, but someone you dont know dies. You get the box for like 24hrs or something to decide.

And at the end if the film the box is collected from the current family who have it.. and theyre told the box is going to the next person on the list.... but dont worry its no one they know

WhatMyNameis · 06/10/2026 20:16

ThatLemonBee · 06/10/2026 20:09

My kind is f person ! I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking the same way .

😂😂😂

namechangetheworld · 06/10/2026 20:19

Calenia · 06/10/2026 20:07

Yes. Of course. Any mother saying no is unhinged.

Any mother saying no and feigning outrage over this hypothetical situation is a virtue signaler of the highest order.

I'd do it and feel no guilt whatsoever.

SuperMaria · 06/10/2026 20:24

WhatMyNameis · 06/10/2026 20:05

11,000.

Always good to know in advance, we have a birthday coming up in the family!

Shloopie · 06/10/2026 20:24

namechangetheworld · 06/10/2026 20:19

Any mother saying no and feigning outrage over this hypothetical situation is a virtue signaler of the highest order.

I'd do it and feel no guilt whatsoever.

You'd do it and feel no guilt whatsoever. Again, it just demonstrates a slowish kind of mind, to boast with this kind of bravado.

RatsCatsandPuppies · 06/10/2026 20:25

I’d kill 10,000 people to save my cat.

Fairy25 · 06/10/2026 20:28

Wow… half of you would be happy to murder other people’s children to save your own.

Mirsine · 06/10/2026 20:29

I’d kill 10000 people if it meant I got the last sausage roll at Greggs!

TotaleclipseinFrance · 06/10/2026 20:32

namechangetheworld · 06/10/2026 20:19

Any mother saying no and feigning outrage over this hypothetical situation is a virtue signaler of the highest order.

I'd do it and feel no guilt whatsoever.

I agree with you but I would feel terrible about it.
I think it's totally natural and expected to put loved ones before strangers, I wouldn't feel great about it, though.
Probably be guilt-ridden for life but still loved ones would come before strangers.

ControlYourDog · 06/10/2026 20:38

I'd press that button twice.

Yesitsweird · 06/10/2026 20:47

SurvivalInstinctsOfABakedPotato · 06/10/2026 19:01

No. Not even to save my child who I love more than anything. He's only 15 but would be disgusted if he ever found out he only lives because other people died.
We do believe in God though so are not 'afraid' of death.
I'd Mourne him massively and never be the same again but no, my moral compass is strong and not a chance.
Not even if I knew all the others were murders etc.

I'm sorry, you wouldn't kill 10000 murderers to save your own son? And you think that makes you a superior person in some way?

Dontlletmedownbruce · 06/10/2026 20:47

I would like to think my children are good moral people so the answer would have to be no. If someone did this for me the rest of my existence would be doomed as I'd never get over the guilt, because I care about other humans and i could never take a life willingly. I would hope my children feel the same, and by choosing to do the right thing I'd be sentencing them to death but also saving them from a future of mental torture. The choice is a lose / lose.

PrettyLittleRose · 06/10/2026 20:54

Lollipop81 · 06/10/2026 19:02

Totally agree what a pointless question.

It's a dreadful thread isn't it?

nomas · 06/10/2026 20:56

PrettyLittleRose · 06/10/2026 20:54

It's a dreadful thread isn't it?

All these people gleefully crowing that they would kill 10,000 people to save one person makes me realise how cruel societies flourished throughout history.

PrettyLittleRose · 06/10/2026 20:57

Calenia · 06/10/2026 20:07

Yes. Of course. Any mother saying no is unhinged.

You've lost the argument when you're calling people 'unhinged.'

McSilkson · 06/10/2026 20:58

ThatLemonBee · 06/10/2026 18:39

I will set the whole world on fire for the people I love . Literally, this is not a way of speaking or a dramatic way of saying things . When it comes to my kids , husband , parents , best friend I would literally kill anyone with my bare hands . If it was saving them or press a button that would kill the 9 billion people in world o would press the button with no second thoughts.
My family is my everything and I’m loyal to them 1000%

Cool story, bro.

PrettyLittleRose · 06/10/2026 20:59

nomas · 06/10/2026 20:56

All these people gleefully crowing that they would kill 10,000 people to save one person makes me realise how cruel societies flourished throughout history.

Ghastly isn't it? As you say, the glee in the posts is sickening.

And I would push 'the button' twice, three times, four times....

Big wow, aren't you quite the 'ardcase? 🙄

They're not even making sense. You would only need to push 'the button' ONCE!

Just illustrating the level of intelligence really.

Mirsine · 06/10/2026 21:00

PrettyLittleRose · 06/10/2026 20:59

Ghastly isn't it? As you say, the glee in the posts is sickening.

And I would push 'the button' twice, three times, four times....

Big wow, aren't you quite the 'ardcase? 🙄

They're not even making sense. You would only need to push 'the button' ONCE!

Just illustrating the level of intelligence really.

FFS lighten up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

SometimesthingsMatter · 06/10/2026 21:00

Why do I feel this is the MN version of the movie series Saw.

PrettyLittleRose · 06/10/2026 21:01

ThatLemonBee · 06/10/2026 18:39

I will set the whole world on fire for the people I love . Literally, this is not a way of speaking or a dramatic way of saying things . When it comes to my kids , husband , parents , best friend I would literally kill anyone with my bare hands . If it was saving them or press a button that would kill the 9 billion people in world o would press the button with no second thoughts.
My family is my everything and I’m loyal to them 1000%

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McSilkson · 06/10/2026 21:02

nomas · 06/10/2026 20:56

All these people gleefully crowing that they would kill 10,000 people to save one person makes me realise how cruel societies flourished throughout history.

No, some of them would allegedly kill every single person on the Earth (including their other relatives)! And with their bare hands, no less! And they'd lose no sleep about it! And they really, really want us to know just how much they don't give a shit about the rest of humanity.

They're falling over themselves to outdo each other in the psychopathy stakes. Preposterous or deeply alarming stuff, depending on how you look at it.

Chocolattecoffeecuppaa · 06/10/2026 21:04

Blankitout · 05/10/2026 19:21

I'm still reeling after reading about the botched attempted state killing of Christa Pike in Tenessee. Absolutely repulsed by the fact the mother of the murder victim , Colleen Slemmer, was actually present at the execution. Horrible that her daughter was murdered but how does watching someone being murdered by the state make her any better then those who murdered her daughter.
I dont like your thread at all OP.

Some crimes are so heinous. what would you consider just if if you were in CP mother shoes

PrettyLittleRose · 06/10/2026 21:04

SometimesthingsMatter · 06/10/2026 21:00

Why do I feel this is the MN version of the movie series Saw.

I know, it's weird as fuck isn't it? People actually happily constructing posts saying how they would kill people who they don't even know WITH THEIR BARE HANDS, and literally kill NINE BILLION PEOPLE to save their loved ones!!!

Bit hard to kill nine billion people luv.. There's only 8.3 billion people on the planet! I rest my case about what I said in my last post!

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TotaleclipseinFrance · 06/10/2026 21:04

Shrigley · 05/10/2026 21:56

I imagine these groups exactly the other way round- I find the idea of someone who could kill their own child on some sort of utilitarian calculation of greater happiness for the greater number absolutely chilling, and I'm confident that that person would be far more likely to torture a stranger to death at the behest of an authority figure- doing the "right thing" when every human impulse is to do the opposite.

(FWIW Milgram's work has been thoroughly discredited- the original experiment was full of flaws (including the fact that large numbers of the people who carried on "torturing" were aware that the set up was fake) and the results have not been replicated.)

Absolutely agree. 💯
Has echoes of dreadful communism about it.

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