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  "textContent": "submitted by Bad to comicstrips\n891 points | 84 comments\n\n\n[blue]\nIf you could push a button that gives you a hundred thousand dollars but a random person dies, would you do it?\n\n[yellow, cautious]\nInteresting thought experiment… intuitively, I’d say no, but it’s worth thinking about… it’s a genuine moral dilemma in a capitalist world: there’s a dialectic between our desires and the common good…\n\nMEANWHILE, BILLIONAIRES\n\n[an orange guy in a suit is shown with a terrifying grin pushing as many buttons as possible at once on a table, slamming one of the buttons, and even using their foot to press an extra one]\n\nthebad.website/…/the_totally_hypothetical_button_…",
  "title": "The totally hypothetical button thought experiment"
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