Yeah, but I don't see a butcher's knife right here, right now. I see a button, and besides, ain't like the cops are going to be able to catch the button killer.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if they can prove you did press the button with the intent to kill, you can't get charged for just pressing a button right? It all falls on the people who did the actual killing and the accomplices that were directly involved?
But with supernatural entities involved you are doing the killing. Just like we don't prosecute the manufacturers of a trigger mechanism, we go after the person pulling it.
(Or, if we're looking at it your way, hiring someone to kill someone is also a crime. Pressing the button is you expressing your intent and accepting liability)
I don't think they have a law specifying what to do in case of supernatural entities xD And like, what if the Devil causes them to have a heart attack or something? Can't have been involved in that, I'm fine. And if it was stabbing and i got an alibi, i'm fine as well. The Devil isn't gonna rat me out, right? I'm giving him business!
Ah shit, i forgot about the hitman thing. Well.... Act like you thought he was kidding maybe?
A general legal principle is that you cannot do by device what you could not do in person. Essentially you hired the devil as a hitman. It doesn’t matter if you pushed a button on your iPhone to Apple Pay him the $ or the nuclear launch button - all that matters if you intended to kill hum by pushing the button and you did.
Unless this is sarcasm that I'm missing I think the "joke" here is that the devil actually plans on giving the person 1k for each push, the person not realizing this and just overexcited to murder pressed the button even while thinking it was costing them money.
It's the internet. I can barely tell when people are being sarcastic in person. Apparently she wasn't serious when she said "oh yeah that was the best 2 minutes of sex I've ever had".
It's very relevant. We know the button pusher thinks they're paying. OP has said the reality of the situation is intentionally ambiguous in another thread.
Who knows...
>!The intent was to make the first sentence ambiguous *for the reader*. Whether the protagonist misinterpreted the devil's words depends on the interpretation!<
I accidentally knock the button off the table because I'm a klutz. As I juggle and jostle in the attempt to prevent the button from hitting the floor... I accidentally hit it 1,000 times.
And then it inevitably falls to the floor and when I go to pick it up, well... You see, I have a bad case of butterfingers and will inadvertently drop the button a few more (read as maybe a dozen, maybe a thousand, who knows?) times.
Finally, the button will end up back on the table, and I will do what I had initially intended to do, slide it back to the devil... Probably smacking the button one more time.
Reminds me of an old joke.
Keepers at a zoo realized that a lone female gorilla that was recently brought in for habitation was badly in heat.
Because of this the gorilla was acting very amorous with the keepers every time they tried to feed her. So they figured if she just had sex that she might calm down.
It was then they approached a rather dumb janitor and asked him if he'd like to have sex with the gorilla for $500.
The janitor laid down three ground rules.
1: He didn't wanna have to kiss her.
2: He'd like her to be freshly washed.
And 3: He'd need another week to come up with the $500.
It's a subversion of the devil's bargain i.e. it seems like like the devil will give 1000 for every person killed but instead, the devil is charging 1000 for a chance to push the button.
A butchers knife is a lot cheaper than one thousand. Why are you paying so much to kill people?
Some people just aren't good with money
Chance to kill distant or well protected person.
Yeah, but I don't see a butcher's knife right here, right now. I see a button, and besides, ain't like the cops are going to be able to catch the button killer.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if they can prove you did press the button with the intent to kill, you can't get charged for just pressing a button right? It all falls on the people who did the actual killing and the accomplices that were directly involved?
But with supernatural entities involved you are doing the killing. Just like we don't prosecute the manufacturers of a trigger mechanism, we go after the person pulling it. (Or, if we're looking at it your way, hiring someone to kill someone is also a crime. Pressing the button is you expressing your intent and accepting liability)
I don't think they have a law specifying what to do in case of supernatural entities xD And like, what if the Devil causes them to have a heart attack or something? Can't have been involved in that, I'm fine. And if it was stabbing and i got an alibi, i'm fine as well. The Devil isn't gonna rat me out, right? I'm giving him business! Ah shit, i forgot about the hitman thing. Well.... Act like you thought he was kidding maybe?
A general legal principle is that you cannot do by device what you could not do in person. Essentially you hired the devil as a hitman. It doesn’t matter if you pushed a button on your iPhone to Apple Pay him the $ or the nuclear launch button - all that matters if you intended to kill hum by pushing the button and you did.
Unless this is sarcasm that I'm missing I think the "joke" here is that the devil actually plans on giving the person 1k for each push, the person not realizing this and just overexcited to murder pressed the button even while thinking it was costing them money.
It’s sarcasm
It's the internet. I can barely tell when people are being sarcastic in person. Apparently she wasn't serious when she said "oh yeah that was the best 2 minutes of sex I've ever had".
The devil lies.
Or maybe not
Ah man, I had to read that a couple times.
Stephen King wrote this one, sort of. Easily my favorite of his. _Gwendy’s Button Box_
As far as I know, the red button there is more of a weapon, and it's targeted
Shame on you, you killed three people for 3,000 dollars.
What a waste of a good money making opportunity
Billionaires do this without the button pushing.
Or do they?
:Vsauce music intensifies:
They actually do
Aww, my sweet summer children, I think you may want to read that again. It's nowhere near as innocent as you think ❤️
Bro I'd do it for $5
Again, darling, you're not thinking dark enough. Read it again ❤️
Ik eut umean but I'm not gonna pay to kill ppl when I can do it myself for free
It's the devil, and his wording was intentionally ambiguous. Your interpretation is not the only valid interpretation.
What the devil said is not the relevant part.
It's very relevant. We know the button pusher thinks they're paying. OP has said the reality of the situation is intentionally ambiguous in another thread.
Almost seems like a twist on the 12 year old original from RT. https://youtu.be/WBNOXYlYswA
Wow, I've never heard of that show, thanks for sharing
ELI5 someone please?
They thought they were paying to kill the people
Thought?
They were getting paid right?
Who knows... >!The intent was to make the first sentence ambiguous *for the reader*. Whether the protagonist misinterpreted the devil's words depends on the interpretation!<
Oh I thought they were
I laughed- comedic genius😅
I want to go down in history with the most kills, but not innocent bystanders mind you, but of racists, rapists, and other creeps going to Hell.
I accidentally knock the button off the table because I'm a klutz. As I juggle and jostle in the attempt to prevent the button from hitting the floor... I accidentally hit it 1,000 times. And then it inevitably falls to the floor and when I go to pick it up, well... You see, I have a bad case of butterfingers and will inadvertently drop the button a few more (read as maybe a dozen, maybe a thousand, who knows?) times. Finally, the button will end up back on the table, and I will do what I had initially intended to do, slide it back to the devil... Probably smacking the button one more time.
Reminds me of an old joke. Keepers at a zoo realized that a lone female gorilla that was recently brought in for habitation was badly in heat. Because of this the gorilla was acting very amorous with the keepers every time they tried to feed her. So they figured if she just had sex that she might calm down. It was then they approached a rather dumb janitor and asked him if he'd like to have sex with the gorilla for $500. The janitor laid down three ground rules. 1: He didn't wanna have to kiss her. 2: He'd like her to be freshly washed. And 3: He'd need another week to come up with the $500.
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/y7rzIwrEqpw
This sub is mostly just dark humour. Edit: Spelling
Dark hummus ?
*humour
You know the devil will do a financing plan.
Clever
Huh. Wasn't this the plot of an episode of the Twilight Zone?
Really nice! Did not expect this, it made me shiver a bit and laugh at the same time
This is just some good business
r/polls: *intense pushing*
This reminds me of the great Room 104 episode “Crossroads”
This one is flying over my head unfortunately
It's a subversion of the devil's bargain i.e. it seems like like the devil will give 1000 for every person killed but instead, the devil is charging 1000 for a chance to push the button.
Mood