The Black Button is a short film by Lucas Crandles. It's premise is simple yet intriguing: if you couldn't get caught, would you kill a stranger for $10 million?
Mr Roberts finds himself awoken inexplicably in a white room. A man sits before him at a desk and in between them stands a black button. If Mr Roberts pushes it, he will receive a briefcase filled with millions of dollars. Or he can take the key to the door and leave penniless. The catch? Pushing the button will result in the death of a human being. What would you do?
One of the finalist of the YouTube Award 2007 for Best Short Film: Link [embedded YouTube]
//How about if I push it twice for $20 million? ;)
But yes, if the situation was a serious one and not set up like the one in the video I would sure push it. Roughly three people die every second around the world, what's the difference if it turns into four people for one second?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button%2C_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)
KIDDING!
Are there no original ideas left in the world?
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlEZ7N37KNw
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6Q49VdFRE
But would you really enjoy your money and feel so great knowing that you have actually killed someone for it? Maybe a child? Or someone really nice?
How happy do you think you would become through money alone?
The killing part makes the money too bitter to really enjoy it, I think.
But I am sure that there are many people out there who would not care to push the button several times. Well, actually there people have been killed face to face for much less.
If the guy dont take the key he's stuck inside the room forever so the money would be useless to him since he can't even spend it.
Meh!
I couldn't even imagine what it would be like to know that I killed another human being. Even if that person was vile and evil and deserved to die, I would still feel weird knowing that they died by my hands... ya know?
But you also can ask yourself "Do I know myself, or am I a Stranger to myself, too?"
So you probably kill yourself by pressing the button. And even if it's an even chance for everyone (round about 1:6 billion) the probability of gaining the 10 million - or even more - by a lotto jackpot (without killing anyone) is far more at your side.
greez, me
(sorry for bad english)
I totally agree, I too hate killing bugs, I could never have killed a random human being, even if they gave me 500 mill U.S.D I couldn't have done it.
I have less respect for an anonymous killer than a public one, and I think that those who would press the button are probably jaded about the worth of a human life because their own lives are so miserable.