Suppose an EVIL DEMON visited you...

Suppose you're a decent person just minding your own business when an evil demon comes down to your face. He tells you that for every virtuous act you do he's going to kill five people and won't kill anybody every time you act non-virtuously. Suppose he also made it so you can't commit suicide (if you could, then he would kill 5 people for that virtuous act and that would be the end of it). On the assumption that the demon will keep his word, how are you to act? Since you start out as a decent virtuous person, what would you predict you would do in this situation?

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:10 AM, yek said:

WHAT DO YOU DO, YEK?!

I would not do anything that is knowingly wrong/harmful to others, which I try my best not to do anymore anyway.

This is really easy can we have it a bit more complicated please.

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:14 AM, abusivegeorge said:

I would not do anything that is knowingly wrong/harmful to others, which I try my best not to do anymore anyway.

 

This is really easy can we have it a bit more complicated please.

But if you don't do anything that you know will harm others, you will be acting virtuously and five people would die every time you did that. So you'd be killing a lot of people in the process of acting good.

edit: is th wot u WNT?

Yeah dude, I fucking HATE everybody.

My answer stands.

id challenge him to a game of chess and win

all demons love chess

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:17 AM, abusivegeorge said:

Yeah dude, I fucking HATE everybody.

 

My answer stands.

Wow.

Well I think I'd continue doing what I would do without caring for the people that were being killed. That way, by not caring about the people I would be killing, I would be acting "in-virtuous" and no one would die.

edit: th eend

exercise

yer demons

a still from Little Miss Sunshine of the huge blanket with a sketch of Nietzsche's head on it.jpg

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:19 AM, boris said:

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:17 AM, abusivegeorge said:

Yeah dude, I fucking HATE everybody.

 

My answer stands.

Wow.

 

Well I think I'd continue doing what I would do without caring for the people that were being killed. That way, by not caring about the people I would be killing, I would be acting "in-virtuous" and no one would die.

 

edit: th eend

That's absolute genius!

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:28 AM, Super lurker ultra V12 said:

a still from Little Miss Sunshine of the huge blanket with a sketch of Nietzsche's head on it.jpg

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:30 AM, abusivegeorge said:

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:19 AM, boris said:

  On 5/3/2010 at 2:17 AM, abusivegeorge said:

Yeah dude, I fucking HATE everybody.

 

My answer stands.

Wow.

 

Well I think I'd continue doing what I would do without caring for the people that were being killed. That way, by not caring about the people I would be killing, I would be acting "in-virtuous" and no one would die.

 

edit: th eend

 

That's absolute genius!

Oh I get it. You already said that.

seriously, that blanket is awesome

5 people isn't a lot of people, i would shrug and move on.

yeah, the world is pretty overpopulated anyway, i don't think anyone would notice.

Have a wank.

How many people would that kill?

just dont act either virtuous or non virtuously and you wont have a problem. ignore everyone.

what would you do if an EVIL DEMON approached you and said, every time boris creates a new thread, he'd kill 5 people?

i'd hope i'd be one of the 5 to go first.

well i guess id have to kill boris before he made another thread

he'd have to define virtuos/non virtuos first or can talk to the hand because the face aint listening

and that's what i'd tell him guys

Assuming doing drugs is a non-virtuous act , i would do drugs 'till i drop dead.

but that would be suicide and thus a virtuous act.

  On 5/3/2010 at 3:46 AM, Z_B_Z said:

but that would be suicide and thus a virtuous act.

Well , i don't want to commit suicide , i just want to try some very addictive and harmful drugs (for the fun of it).

i would just masturbate and finger myself and listen to the Lion King soundtrack that i dubbed swearwords over

The demon doesn't even say how frequent the non virtuos acts have to be btw.