I have a 2 part question for you to understand your moral values...

[LynneSin]

For $10,000 would you do the following:

Would you step on and kill a cockroach?

What if, instead of the cockroach I asked you to step on and kill a butterfly?

Please discuss.

[geardaddy]

1. Easy...

La Cucaracha. Squish.

[LynneSin]

2. but what if it was a butterfly and not a cockroach?

:shrugs:

[geardaddy]

4. Nope.

I wouldn't do it. Not for any money.

[LynneSin]

5. But they are both bugs

:D

[geardaddy]

19. Arghhhh!

x(

[Richardo]

3. I've done the first one for free.

I didn't know I could get paid for it. :grr:

1) Yes
2) I'd usually say no. But if I really needed $10K I'd consider it.

Rationale - not looks. Hygenic considerations.

[Call Me Wesley]

6. No. (nt)

[vadawg]

7. realistically yes and yes, hell id even throw in a deer for you..

[MrScorpio]

8. Keep your money, if the roach is indoors, I'll kill it for free

I classify roaches as vermin... and vermin is to be dispatched post haste

However, I favor life for the butterfly... Not vermin.

[Inchworm]

9. Both die quick deaths, or...

I might try a bargain to whoever proposed the deal.

I'll let the butterfly go for $5k, but the cockroach will still cost you ten grand.

:hi:

[Inchworm]

15. Can I eat them both for $5000?

:shrug:

[grace0418]

10. It's not just looks/ick factor. Butterflies don't invade one's home, spreading

germs and aggravating asthma.

Butterflies are beneficial to pollination and harmless to your home, in addition to being beautiful.

Although I don't really like stepping/squishing anything, I'd definitely to it to a roach for $10,000. A butterfly, I don't know. I don't think I could.

[LynneSin]

13. So what if it was a Fly vs. a Butterfly

I mean a regular housefly also pollinates like the Butterfly.

[grace0418]

22. The fly also invades homes, lays eggs that become maggots, and spreads

germs. If butterflies invaded my house, I probably wouldn't find them as charming as I do now. I remember when the ladybug population got really bad here in Chicago. I though they were super cute and all, but when they started getting out of control in my home, they lost a bit of that charm.

[caitxrawks]

11. silly, cockroaches cannot die.

Neither can Twinkies.

[Iggo]

12. Yes, I would kill an insect for 10 grand.

[Arugula Latte]

14. Hell, I'd squish Glenn Beck for 10,000 pennies.

[Richardo]

16. ..

:rofl:

[jmm]

31. I think most of us would pay to do that. (n/t)

[Mojambo]

17. Yes and yes. n/t

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. Neither --

I don't dig cockroachs, but I still won't kill them. :shrug:

[av8rdave]

20. For 10K? The're both toast.

[noamnety]

21. Yes and yes

Cockroach, no problem.

Butterfly ... it's not something I'd do for the heck of it, or even directly for your money. But after thinking about it, I would coerce you into donating the money to Doctors Without Borders instead of giving it to me. I would trade a butterfly for a bunch of children's lives.

[Unvanguard]

23. I would do both. But I would not kill a mouse. n/t

[qnr]

24. Yes & Yes, but then I'd put up a little memorial to the one I killed, since I had some surplus cash.

I'd probably prefer going for the cockroach - not for the general reasons, but because nobody ever talks about "the cockroach effect" and I'd like to see if it sets off a typhoon in Asia that kills a butterfly, which sets off a hurricane in North America (yeah, I know, it's the fluttering of the wings --- the death bit belongs to time travel, but won't know without experimenting).

[gratuitous]

25. Hold it; what about mushrooms?

Oh, "moral," not "morel." And the answer would help folks understand something, you say?

[madinmaryland]

27. Are you series, or are you casting asparagus again!!

[madinmaryland]

26. Yes to both. Now it might take a little more for me to crush a stink bug.

:puke:

[Chemical Bill]

28. Let's see the cash before I answer. n/t

[NNadir]

29. My brother is a cockroach and has taken far more than $10,000 from me and other relatives and, from

what I hear, is still alive and recently married to his third or fourth twenty something wife.

I guess that kind of answers the question.

To have to invite the cockroach and wife du jour to meet my children and hear his lectures on Jesus and the sanctity of marriage?

[Xipe Totec]

30. What kind of butterfly?

Rare? Endangered? Ordinary?

The cockroach I'll do for free.

[Ohio Joe]

32. I would squash them both without a second thought

I do not have any moral issues killing bugs.

[rug]

33. Is this the republican poll test they've been talking about?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

34. I hate this about myself but for 10k they are both dead, dead, dead.

pay up because I have got some bills.

[Urban Prairie]

35. Butterfly?!?

Nope!!

I read what happens when you squish a butterfly!! (Ray Bradbury's A Sound Of Thunder)

[Arkansas Granny]

47. Wow! I read that book when I was about 10 years old (my brother was

a big SF fan and I read any book that entered the house), but I've never been able to remember the title or the author. It's been over 50 years, so it made a real impact on me even though I can't recall all of the details. I'll have to read it again now and see if it has the same effect. Thanks for jogging my memory.

[XemaSab]

36. Both

:D

[proteus_lives]

37. I would do both.

If you wouldn't, why?

[Throd]

38. I'll have kitten sashimi for less than that.

[cherokeeprogressive]

39. Show me the money... I'll show you two dead insects. n/t

[LeftyMom]

40. No and no.

[LynneSin]

44. I would expect that from you but....

I thought of this question after people got all repulsed about that Italian guy admitting he has had cat. I thought it was odd all these carnivore eating DUers were getting all repulsed and honestly - what makes a cat any more of value than a cow or a pig or a chicken?

I don't think I would eat cat. From what I've read it's not actually good quality meat to eat anyhows. But unless someone is a true Vegan, like you are, how dare they pass judgement on what this guy has done?

[petronius]

41. For $10 grand, you're gonna need to go way beyond butterfly to find my limits

Pretty much anything short of my mom or my wife would be open to negotiation...

;)

[Beer Snob-50]

42. for 10K

both of them are DEAD!!

unless of course i take a time machine back in time and there is the possibility that by killing one of them in throws all future life into chaos.

[Deep13]

43. Thanks, but I don't need help understanding my moral values.

Also: *squash*

[nuxvomica]

45. My moral values say I need to know where the $10K came from

If someone is offering me that much money to do such a thing, they might not be in their right mind and I might be exploiting them by accepting the money.

BTW, I already stepped on the cockroach before the offer was made.

[Bertha Venation]

46. No and no.

If I had a cockroach infestation, I'd deal with that. But if I saw a single cockroach on the sidewalk, I wouldn't kill it. And I would never kill a butterfly.

[MiddleFingerMom]

48. SLAMMING back into the bar and stumbling along...

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... in a mezcal-induced somnolent frenzy.
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"BUTTERFLY'S DEAD... NOW WHERE THE HELL'S THAT COCKROACH I HAVE TO IMPREGNATE?"
.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

49. Neither

I escort spiders out of my house on a paper towel. I avoid ants on the sidewalk. I shoo flies out the door or windows.

[Blue_Tires]

50. yes....both....repeatedly

ten grand is ten grand

[blue neen]

51. It would depend on how badly I needed the $10,000.

For example, if I needed the $10,000 to get medical treatment for a family member, then "Yes" to both questions.

If I was going to spend the $10,000 on something relatively frivolous, then "Yes" to only the first question. It wouldn't be enjoyable, but it would be worth it to eliminate a cockroach from this earth.

[WinkyDink]

52. Yes. No. The former is a disease-carrier. The latter offer would make me question YOU.

[flvegan]

53. To the cockroach and the butterfly, their lives are worth more than $10k.

So no to both.

The human ego is funny. People only think from their own perspective, giving their value to others. It's really no different than someone taking $10k to shoot a person's mother. The $10k was worth more to them than the person's life. And before people get their panties knotted up their arses, I'm not comparing people to insects. That's for the ignorant to assume.