About a year ago, I played five rounds of “Will You Press the Button” and shared the questions with you. It was a lot of fun, so I want to do it again. Let’s start with…
That sound similar to the “You get a million dollars, but a random person in the world dies” dilemma. Except this is a far smaller reward for much bigger consequences. Maybe this power would sound nicer if I lived in an area with more extreme weather, but since I live in central Croatia, I don’t really need it.
I can also forget about saving lives; the natural disasters would cancel out whatever good that I do. And don’t suggest using my powers to stop them. I can’t be everywhere at once and, even if I could be, my powers would be worthless against earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. I won’t press the button.
Huh, the first part is basically an infinite money glitch. If I can get any electronics that I like, I can sell them for a huge profit. I could lower the price to one dollar and still make money. Then again, having no electricity is just as big of a downside. I could never live a normal life.
Maybe I could game the system and live in other people’s houses for the rest of my life. Not my house, not my electricity. Since I can easily make money, I don’t have to worry about rent. I would press the button. I love being a rules lawyer.
To be honest, I have little to no survival skills. Even if I was a top tier survivalist, living the rest of my life alone in the world sounds like a fate worse than death. Plus, pressing the button means dooming everyone else to certain death. This button is a hard no.
The second part is pretty vague. How does the pain work? Does it hurt more the more money I spend at once or does it hurt more the less money I have left. If it’s the former, I could get around it by just paying in installments, but I’m not sure if that’s how it works.
What’s the upper limit of pain? Is it the maximum amount of pain a human being can feel or does it keep going? I could use drugs to numb the pain, but I’d eventually develop a resistance to them. I won’t press the button. There are too many things that could go wrong.
Geez, why am I getting so many buttons where the downside is “everyone dies”? I don’t even have control over my own life, why am I making decisions about all the others?
Then again, this is another button where I can find a loophope. I choose to go to a reality where I have the power to bring realities back from destruction. There’s no rule against me doing that.
And that’s five of them. I want to end this by making my own hypothetical button. For the rest of your life, you’ll win any competition that you enter, including the rewards. However, everyone knows that a supernatural force made you the winner; you didn’t really earn it. Will you press the button?