Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic...
by spondyl on Friday December 29, 2017 @07:51PM
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On a side note, you might like a movie called The Box (2009).
Basically a couple receives a box with a button and pressing it will give them $1 million but a stranger somewhere in the world will die at the same time.
I don't remember if it's any good but your scenario reminded me of it.
Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic...
by DCoder on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:22AM
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There was also an episode of The Twilight Zone with the same plot [0]. Based on a short story by Richard Matheson.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Z...
If there was a magic button in the world that killed someone every time it was pressed, I'd be much more concerned about getting rid of the button or enacting societal change to keep the button under protection than I would care about tracking down people that pressed the button. Sure, some degree of that is good to discourage it too, but if the button remains out in the open, easy to press, and pressed by more people than actually do get captured, then something isn't right.