- Imagine a runaway boxcar heading toward five people who can't escape its path. Now imagine you had the power to reroute the boxcar onto different tracks with only one person along that route.
Here's is a series of questions this brought to mind:
Would you delete $1000 from the bank account of someone you will never know to gain $100?
Would you delete $1000 from the bank account of someone you will never know to gain $10000?
Would you delete $1000 from the bank account of someone you will never know to gain $100000?
Is there a number big enough that you would do it, and does it ever become justifiable?
For the money, I wouldn't do it if I didn't know how much the person losing the money had. I wouldn't not want to ruin somebody to enrich myself.
But if I knew the person was say, a billionaire, then things would be different. I cannot honestly say that I wouldn't delete $1,000.00 from a billionaire if that meant I got 100k. In no universe can I see me not doing that.
How bout you?
I realize that $1000 could be all a family has and could cause major problems and even death of a sick child etc. But honestly, that' not that likely.
What about you? Is there no amount that would have you push the "$1000 theft button?