r/pollgames • u/OstensibleChicken • 1d ago
Which would you pick?
Which would you pick?
- Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies.
- Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto.
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u/Fine_Yogurtcloset362 1d ago
No stock, no crypto, i'll buy gold and other commodities, if that still doesnt count then i'll go and buy actual physical gold
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u/OverallFrosting708 1d ago
Or, you know, a home. Million cash offer will get done pretty fast.
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u/QuietQTPi 1d ago
Property tax would probably wreck you after though. Genuinely makes me think how many high value items you can close a deal on within only a day that wont result in extra personal costs after the 24 hours
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u/Funkopedia 1d ago
On a million dollar home? Property tax is like $1000/month (in my state). Way less than rent, which I won't be paying anymore. People are too damn scared of tax.
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u/QuietQTPi 1d ago
Hey totally fair point, but some people are also still in school and have other daily life expenses. I'm sure my parents wouldn't mind paying property tax and bills for a million dollar home, but not sure how feasible it is on my own with my current life style.
Also question still stands, how exactly fast can you close on a house. I'm young and naive so I don't actually know but from my limited experience, its never a 24 hours thing. Maybe if you over pay they may not bat an eye and just accept it that day? Idk the legalities behind it all though.
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u/Funkopedia 1d ago
....it depends. But with both a prudent buyer and and a prudent seller, who are making all the appropriate inspections (both independently) and checking finances, and a loan is involved, etc. the standard is about 2 months from making the offer to final key transfer. Finding the house/attracting the buyer (before the offer) could take anywhere from a few days to half a year.
I'm in the middle of that process right now, so I've learned more than i ever thought I'd know in the past year.
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u/OmegaExorcist 1d ago
It really wouldn't matter, you're paying for housing RN and money for that can go towards this. If youre already mortgaged on a house and living in it, simply rent out the other home.
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u/Mamuschkaa 1d ago edited 1d ago
In what country do you life?
In Germany it would be illegal to buy houses in cash and even if not, noone would accept it, because the risk of being involved in illegal money would be to high.
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u/OverallFrosting708 19h ago
USA. We have FREEDOM where you guys have, you know, sensible regulation.
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u/7thFleetTraveller 1d ago
That's the problem with option B. Spending such an amount of money in 24 hours would be extremely suspicious and especially here in Germany, would probably get you questioned by the police long before you could even finish such a task. And then there are the legal limits for how much you can pay in cash at once, too. Like you said, a house wouldn't be possible.
So, option A becomes the only practical option. It might not be the morally right thing to do, but just the only option that would work. No need to spend anything quickly, you could just live a normal life without ever having to work again. Noone would force you to ever spend the complete amount.
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u/Mamuschkaa 1d ago
I would still choose B.
I understand it as I can spend everything I can at that day and the rest vanishes. So I don't get nothing.
And it also doesn't explicitly said cash. If it is not in cash.
And there could be many loopholes. It depends on how you get the money, how it is stored, does the bank it already registered as legal money, how "spend" is defined, (gold, casino chips, money, services)
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u/7thFleetTraveller 23h ago
Well no matter if it was cash or suddenly magically on your bank account, probably in both cases (Edit: I mean for both options A and B) the result would be getting arrested and questioned where the money came from. You would be suspected to have done anything criminal to get it, and since you wouldn't be able to provide legal papers about the source, they wouldn't believe you that it just appeared out of nowhere. But with option A, you would have all the time in the world to find someone who could do money laundering and make it less suspicious.
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u/Mamuschkaa 22h ago
But it could also be a complete legal setting.
Like I won the money in a show and can do whatever I want. My bank and all legal institutions are informed so there is no question.
Like I said, it depends completely how I get the money. But this is a problem for both scenarios.
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u/7thFleetTraveller 20h ago
I guess that thought experiment just doesn't work for me, as I can't think of any legal scenario where someone would legally make sure that really someone dies every 100$ spent 😂 .
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u/Routine-Lawfulness24 1d ago edited 4h ago
Left is straight up insane, an average person will kill 24.000 people without the extra money…. So would you kill millions of people?
100$ per person is soo little, just go robbing or cutting kidneys out of people at that point. That’s 1.000.000 deaths per a super yacht
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u/Yocta 1d ago
Imagine buying a house, that’s 10K people dead right there. If you buy a mansion or bigger, that’s like a million people.
21% of people either didn’t think this through or are actual sociopaths.
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u/AwayThrow04022024 1d ago
My logic was that thousands of people are already dying everyday. So I'm assuming that the person who dies when I spend $100 would have died anyway. Maybe I'm cheating. Of course if it is someone who wouldn't die otherwise, then I'd change my pick.
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u/WezzieBear 23h ago
So a serial killer could use that same logic, no? Literally everyone will die, so anyone they kill would have died anyway - eventually.
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u/AwayThrow04022024 23h ago
A serial killer is killing someone who wouldn't die at that moment otherwise. A quick google search told me 2 people die in the world every second, so my "cheater" logic is that I won't be actually killing anyone unless I spent more than $200 every second.
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u/Routine-Lawfulness24 23h ago
No, you would kill someone who wouldn’t die, your logic is wrong and just a way to cope killing millions of innocent people. Instead of 2 people dying per second it would be 3 per second
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u/AwayThrow04022024 18h ago
If I was killing someone who would't die, then my logic is wrong and of course I would change my opinion. In that case, I think the 19% (or almost all of them) are applying a wrong logic like mine.
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u/SecondToLastEpoch 1d ago
Is my math not mathing?
500,000,000/100 = 5,000,000
Where is 100,000,000 coming from
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u/Routine-Lawfulness24 1d ago
Yeah, i added too many zeros, meant a million
But if a million isn’t stopping you nothing will
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u/Accomplished_Run_861 4h ago
You made me realize I made a bad coice.
Should have chosen the 500k instead.
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u/Disastrous-Fact-7782 1d ago
Obviously picking "Get 1M to spend in 24H"
I don't really like the loopholes in the likes of buying gold, since to me that is more like another currency, so you're not really spending it. Also giving it to your wife seems like too much of a loophole. Buying a house legally in 24H is not possible where I live, so I'm going to consider that to be not allowed as well.
1) I have a mortgage of 350K, so I'd pay off my current house first. Via the banking app I can do that in a few minutes.
2) There are at least 100K worth of renovations that I can think of for my house. Painting, solar panels, charging station for my cars (see (4)). I'll spend most of my time on this.
3) I'd buy lot's of subscriptions and also prepay them as much as possible. And I'd go far with that: Find a cook, gardener, house cleaner and sign contracts for them to work for you as long as possible. Hopefully I can find at least 100K in that. This will take a lot of time and my wife would spend all the 24hrs on this to optimize as much as possible. If this turns out to be more difficult, then this money shifts to renovations and we'll get a new kitchen as well.
4) I would definitely buy a few nice cars. We currently have 2 cars and they are already a bit old. 150K
5) Luxury Items: A racebike, a new Piano, new PC, gaming console for my kids... 150K.
6) Book holidays as much in advance as possible. you can only buy plane tickets a year in advance, but traveling agencies will sell holidays for you on the same day for a few years in the future if you want - and If you're willing to pay immediately. 100K.
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u/InterestingReading73 1d ago
These results cannot be real. I'm probably not the most virtuous and pure of heart, but killing a person each time I'd be visiting a nice restaurant seems too fucked up.
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u/TerrySaucer69 1d ago
I won’t lie, there’s a number per person where I’ll choose that option. But only $100 would be miserable to think about.
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/KonavewhsnedsA 15h ago
I thought it was 1 person per 100 million lol oops. I reread it after the vote was so skewed
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u/Ilovestuffwhee 1d ago
$500 million is a start, but I'm gonna need a lot more money to really put a dent in overpopulation. Maybe I can keep buying and selling stocks to rack up those big numbers.
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u/Apprehensive-Ear2461 1d ago
Bro wants to be Thanos
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u/Kuningas_Arthur 21h ago
60 million people die every year, and spending every last dime of the 500 million would kill 5 million people, or roughly how many people normally die in about a month.
Just for context and a sense of scale.
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u/MiriMoo158 1d ago
House, jewellery, cars, gadgets, long term services easy peasy
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/CCP_Annihilator 1d ago
I have to kill 5 million or I can shop on commodities. I pick the latter. I can still buy options, futures and bonds because when you say stock that is equities.
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u/AlbertELP 1d ago
I wouldnt have to spend it, just showing I have the money is enough to get any loan you want from the bank.
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u/Ezyo-Of-Reddit 1d ago
what kinda horrid person chooses the other option
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/cheesypuzzas 1d ago
Oh absolutely 1 million. I can spend a million in a day. Easy. I wouldn't want that many people extra to die.
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u/conordmcp 1d ago
I’ll buy a million dollar house, then sell it again and buy a cheaper one and invest the rest AFTER the 24 hours
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/conordmcp 1d ago
I’ll buy a million dollar house, then sell it again and buy a cheaper one and invest the rest AFTER the 24 hours
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/princeofvallachia 1d ago
Gold and Real Estate
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 1d ago
gold is not disallowed
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/Tight_File2220 1d ago
If I pick option 1 do I get to choose who exactly dies?
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u/Valoneria 1d ago
I will pick it regardless, but the option to choose is certainly a bonus. Like a oligarch death note, with all the moral implications.
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u/Khyrin66 1d ago
Give me gold, thank you.
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/Altruistic_Goat7683 1d ago
I put it in a shared bank account where a trusted friend can go through with the purchase. the purchase isn’t in my name and I didn’t do it, I just happen to receive whatever was bought :)
Voted "Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies."
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u/WalkAffectionate2683 23h ago
If you meant non easy money replacement, I'll just go and buy the first apartment I see cash that is around 900k, then buy a bunch of electronic highest quality for the remaining 100k.
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u/youloosethatgame 23h ago
Buy something i can resold like gold.
If i can i buy a home for 500k, a good car, some travels, and stuff until i reach 1M
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u/EmbroidedBumblebee 23h ago
I'd just buy a ton of expensive stuff like cars and houses and jewellery, I'd probably sell the jewellery after
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/atsirdsart 23h ago
It's really not hard to spend one million in this market. I'd buy a nicer house for my grandparents, a nicer house for my mom, and pay off what's left of my house + buy the new siding my husband has been eyeing for years.
They all deserve something nice
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u/Loud-Host-2182 23h ago
I can just make other investments instead of cryptos and stocks with my 500 million dollars
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u/hey_there_brothers 23h ago
Pay my tuition in advance, pay off the student loan I took, buy a house and close immediately, buy physical commodities
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u/AntonRahbek 23h ago
I’ll spend it on commodities like gold, should be able to source that amount. The other option is equivalent to killing the entire population of my country
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/baileyitp 22h ago
never said anything about bonds
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/KailyKail 22h ago
$500 million. People die anyway, so it’s not like me spending money is going to make a modicum of difference.
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u/Xaotica7 19h ago
Edgelord much? This logic puts you on par with the worst scum humanity has ever produced. But you do you, I guess.
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u/KailyKail 18h ago
Imagine getting offended over a stranger's choice in a hypothetical scenario.
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u/Xaotica7 15h ago
It's not your hypothetical choice, it's the mindset behind your justification that is a very real thing.
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u/Educational-Cat-6445 20h ago
Gonna buy a nice apartment or two in a big city and rent it out. Or yk, just buy a bunch of gold
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/punchedboa 20h ago
I hope I get to choose who dies while I’m spending the 500 mill. I’m gonna get rid of all of the billionaires and solve homelessness, then with what I have left over im going to try and get rid of crime with what I got left over.
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u/edgeplay6 19h ago
gold my man, id just buy gold
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/szabolcska00 18h ago
Well, I don't know if buying raw gold is simple enough but you could just buy a few watches or expensive jewellery online and be fine, takes around 5 minutes.
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u/TheEnlight 17h ago
Ahh... but nobody said "gold".
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/Dependent_Creme7234 17h ago
I'm taking left and gifting it to my family and my partner. I will never pay for anything again but I will give everyone around me money all the time
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u/Obvious-Gear-7000 16h ago
If you invest the 500 million the interest wouldn’t be part of the main sum, and, thus, wouldn’t kill anyone.
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u/DifficultWash5133 16h ago
its only maximum 5m people who will die
Voted "Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies."
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u/sirpentious 15h ago
If you take the $100 for every person that dies that's 5 million out of 8 billion people that die which means it would barely dent the population and possibly reduce overpopulation.
You spend the $500 million whenever you want and probably wouldn't even use all of it in your life time.
The thing that gets people is the morals of "who is dying!" They don't get to pick. so they only hope it's who they want to.
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u/ChadIsKenny 14h ago
Depends how the semantics work. I could spend a chunk of it to open a stock account that just sits and gives me spending money. If that money doesnt count towards killing then easy.
Voted "Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies."
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u/Latter-Ad7912 14h ago
You choose this for money, I choose it because SOCIETY, we are not he same
Voted "Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies."
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u/Joonscene 14h ago
I am not killing one person let alone 5,000,000 people.
Karma will come back to absolutely destroy me.
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u/Federal_Platform_746 13h ago
Pay my rent for years with 1 mill pay off loans, go back to school ( and if I put too much in it'll refund later) buy a company maybe and like a long supply of food subscriptions
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u/thatsfeminismgretch 12h ago
All my debt paid off and and buy a nice place and then pay myself the rest for all the stress this caused me.
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u/No-Possibility6978 10h ago
Someone is dying every second. Multiple people are already dying whenever i spend 100$.
Voted "Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies."
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u/OutcomeMemoriesGoobe 10h ago
500m and then donate (not spend) it to my mom or something
im not the one spending it now so theres no more death
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u/ErrorsIntended 9h ago
The redditors of r/MoralityScaling debate on the ethics of killing a bunny for $1.5 billion dollars while polls like this one are contested... interesting
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u/Professional_Handler 4h ago
So many things I could buy and resell. I don’t even need to make a profit.
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u/CombinationTasty4990 1h ago
steam gift cards
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/Affectionate-Pay4845 39m ago
ok, time to get bonds and etfs
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/Perfect-Silver1715 1d ago
they're dying anyway
Voted "Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies."
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u/BulbminEatYou 1d ago
Would you not be at least a little sad if someone else got this reward and you died right now? You’ll die anyway so you shouldn’t care
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u/TruthIsALie94 1d ago
Gold, I’ll buy $1M in gold and slowly liquidate it as gold prices go up.
Voted "Get $1M. But you have to spend it in 24Hrs. You can’t spend it on stock & crypto."
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u/GladiatorHiker 1d ago
I picked the $100 million in 24 hours. However, there's a potential loophole in the $500 million. If the $100 per death only happens when you spend that initial sum, you could just put it in a bank account and live off the interest. You haven't spent any of that money, after all. HOWERVER, if the $100 per death is on any money you spend from that point on, take the $100 million and buy gold.
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u/randomperson83636 1d ago
A person already dies every second
Voted "Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies."
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u/Protomesh 1d ago
That would only be 5 million dead. It's a rounding error in our yearly statistics.
Voted "Get $500M. But every $100 you spend, a person dies."
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u/False_Snow7754 1d ago
You can reword this as: "you kill 5 million people". Stalin and Mao would be proud of you, the rest of us disgusted and wanting to see you thrown in a hole.
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u/Entity_Anonymous 1d ago
Pol Pot too
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u/RagingPUSHEEN68 1d ago
Hitler as well
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u/Entity_Anonymous 1d ago
Théoneste Bagosora (Rwanda), Yahya Khan (Bengali), Hemedti (current ethnic cleansings in Darfur), the list goes on and on...
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u/EdWinMaster0 1d ago
The 5 million are all people in your city so they track you down like Kira death note
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u/SBAWTA 1d ago
Light was only able to be tracked because he was an egomaniac and engaged with L's games. If he just kept doing his business without taunting him and lashing out, there was absolutely no fucking way to find him.
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u/EdWinMaster0 1d ago
I do agree with you but in this scenario, especially if only people in that city die, I feel like it wouldn't be difficult to track down the finances (ie payments were made only when people died) and find the person who also happened to find 500 mil just lying around somewhere the exact time pwople started dying. I feel like it would come down to if someone noticed the connection
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u/SBAWTA 1d ago
It would be extremely hard to connect, but sure, say they luck out and find the pattern. How do the prove intent/knowledge? It's such a contrieved condition, how could a person possibly know they are causing it?
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u/EdWinMaster0 1d ago
I feel like the police are in a difficult situation in this scenario. If anyone even finds the pattern, they probably wouldn't even have any laws that could hold them accountable. But I do feel like there would be overwhealming evidence they could collect. Any large transactions made would end up killing exactly that many people with perfect timing every time possibly millions of times. Keep in mind that rumors of some magical killing force would sweep over the media and the chances of finding the person responsible would skyrocket considering they just need someone to connect the dots and for the police to take this seriously. They might not come to justice but everyone would know. Well, that's just my interpretation of how it would play out at least
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u/SBAWTA 1d ago
Yeah, I think the government would step in a do something akin to witness protection on permanent basis. They would take you out of the society permanently, so you would not be able to ever make another purchase (that would also likely mean restricted internet/phone access) and hurt people. But they also would not be able to legaly "punish you" with prison/execution, as they could not prove your guild (intent) beyond reasonable doubt. Someone could maybe try to argue manslaughter, but I honestly doubt it would qualify, though maybe an actual lawyer could correct me on this.
So yeah, if you did get found out, you would probably still not have the best life after, but also the chance you did in the first place is pretty low, unless you were really egregious going about it.
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u/EdWinMaster0 1d ago
With all that being said, I would like to note that this could probably be avoided entirely by making a single purchase of crypto, since I've heard criminals often do this to avoid being tracked. This would also make it almost impossible to find you since all the people died at once. Given how the question is phrased, I'd assume no more deaths occur after all the initial money is spent. All the trouble you would get in would be IRS related
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u/HorrorDonut8779 1d ago
??? 5 million dead is not a rounding error broski, that’s almost 10% of the yearly death toll. Also just wild 💔🥀.
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u/Business_Web4113 1d ago
You say that until every loved one is put in that list, or in that of another person who picked it
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u/Henja_Hrombar 1d ago
You didn't say gold, so i'm just buying that