You enter a room that contains a table and two doors.
Upon the table is a bundled stack of United States currency, totalling $1,000,000. One of the two doors, the one you entered through, is open. The second door is closed. Behind the second door is an adult human, who may be anyone, from anywhere in the world. The identity of this person is not known to you.
You are presented with two options:
(1) You may leave the room via the open doorway, leaving the bundle of money on the table. If you do this, the entire sum will be given to the person behind the closed door.
(2) You may take the entire bundle of money, and leave the room via the open doorway. If you do this, the person behind the closed door receives nothing.
Which option do you choose?
Posted by wrodina at September 23, 2005 12:20 AM | TrackBacktempting, I would hope that I would turn around and and leave, leaving the money, but knowing that I am not the person I should be, I might break down and steal the money, if I thought no one would know. I pray that I would leave the money.
Posted by: Michael P. O'Connor at September 23, 2005 4:51 AMAh, I guess I didn't specify. This isn't a situation that would involve "stealing" -- the money would be yours to take, no strings attached.
Posted by: Will at September 23, 2005 12:04 PM