• stickyprimer@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    This is an old twilight zone episode. A women is given a box with one button on it and told to press it is she wants the money, but someone she doesn’t even know will die.

    She decides the push the button, and then someone comes to collect the button device, saying that it will now be reset and taken to someone else now for the same challenge. Some random person on earth. Implying that she will be the next to die if the button gets pushed.

    Frankly not a bad system. Slowly cleanses the selfish from the earth.

      • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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        8 days ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)

        Yes, that somewhere in the world, someone she doesnt know will die.

        When Mr. Steward returns to collect the button box after the button is pressed, the lady asks what happens to the box next. She is told it will go to someone else with the same offer, with assurances that the new recipient will not know who she is. As the previous commenter said, the wording deeply implies she would be the certain “someone” targeted by the next button press.