You can have $5 million dollars Cash...

[Beazy]

Is it 5 mill a tap?

If so, those Street Fighter 2 skills are going to finally pay off!

[God Save The King]

I would press it in a heartbeat. Assuming he'd let me, I'd probably go for around 100-200 times before calling it quits. This is assuming it's not like the books/movies, where, plot twist, out of the 7 billion people you don't know, it picks your significant other because you don't really know them.

[Stardrift]

I'd smack that mf button and think it would be a bonus if that random person who dies was someone suffering

[Auxora]

A better one of these might be a button, where exactly 50% chance either 1 of 2 things will happen. Push the button and 50% chance you instantly die, 50% chance you live and get $5 million dollars.

[ComputerNerd]

As you get some cash regardless, and an amount which to me is actually a lot then that makes it hard to justify pressing the button.

I mean, there's like 7.5 billion people on the planet. The odds of it actually being someone you know is pretty slim. I'd take that chance!

Assuming it is random.
There are people I know whom I would lose little sleep over being gone, but that doesn't mean it is my right to decide that.

[Robozerim]

Know how many lives could be saved with that 5 million dollars? A lot more than one. Just thinking about it logically, is it truly moral to not press that button and use the five million to save other people who would otherwise die?

[SinR]

Yes.

Doesn't say how they die. could be a tornado, car crash, a "Peaceful Protest", unfortunate work related accident.

[Blayze]

I'll press it five times if I get to pick who dies.

[shaunika123]

I could save more than one person with 5 million dollars if I wanted to. Really, it should be encouraged to press the button.

if only human life was as easy to quantify as money

[edw]

The person that you kill by pressing the red button is .. you , that would be a nice spinn.

[kasuke06]

there are 7 billion people on this planet, about maybe 100 that I actually give a damn about. and our primary ills as a species right now stem from overpopulation. Button pressed. can I keep pressing it without getting more money? set up one of those drinky bird things on it.

[primalmatter]

Can I press it more then once?

[rayden54]

I like the Twilight Zone version of this story.

After pressing the button, the woman is told "I can assure you [the box] will be offered to someone whom you don't know."

[ShimmerSwirl]

I wouldn't press it for 5 billion.

[kail]

Push it, keep 1 million for investments and put the rest for life saving charities/funds.

[skatblast]

I wouldn't need more than a few minutes to decide, answer is yes. Could be some random kid in ghana who is going to die soon anyways.

[vilememory]

Ha ha, you fools! You aren't the only person that gets this offer! And the person that gets killed is the last person who got the offer and pushed the button!

[Travis B]

I'd press it ,and I'd understand if someone else pressed it and I was killed. Chances are you'll kill someone living in Africa, China or India - places were people die in agony from disease, injuries and their peers randomly attacking them for X or Y.

5 million dollars in my hands could do a lot more good for the world than 1 guy in Africa, who is killing albinos for their body parts, or an Indian sacrificing children in rituals, or an Chinese guy who is living under communism.

LOL, what a foolish and insanely ignorant post. So everyone in Africa, China, and India either leads a miserable life and should be euthanized or is a horrible person and deserves to die anyway? You really need to get out more.

[Forum Action 22]

I'm gonna smash it!

[Deleted]

Before everyone pushes the crap out of the Button, the catch in the sequence where it was first introduced was that after you receive the prize, the Button will be given to someone else, someone who (like your victim) you DON'T know.

Personally, I'd like to believe that if I was in this situation I wouldn't push the button.