A big red button

[annwfyn]

This is a random pondering.

If you were given a button, and told that if you pressed it, someone you dislike would die, would you?

You'd be able to name the person and they would die. It wouldn't be your fault. It would be entirely untraceable. Maybe it would be a car crash, maybe a heart attack. But they would die. It could be someone you'd never met - a dictator - or someone who had hurt you in a specific way.

Consequences free killing.

Could you?

Would you?

Comments

[pmp.livejournal.com]

I think I'd still be too afraid of unforseen consequences and personal guilt to push the button. Unless I could intellectually rationalise the idea that the death was deserved, and necessary then I wouldn't be able to go through with it.