Would you buy a lottery ticket with 99% odds of winning $1 million and 1% odds of dying?
I don't buy lottery tickets, so no I would not buy this one.
Gina
Every day holds some small probability of death if you think about it. So in theory no different than any other day. Would I buy a ticket laying those odds out front like that? Kind of darkside Sawish for my tastes...probably not.
Yep, where is the line?
Would it matter to you HOW you were to die, Gauwyn?
Quote from: Anna Iram on May 15, 2012, 11:46:34 AM
Would it matter to you HOW you were to die, Gauwyn?
I'm counting on the 99% :) so the dying just doesn't concern me.
How much is the ticket?
Only 1% that would be a big downsize for me but I think I would pass. Money has its advantages but a roof over my head, food on the table, and family and friends exceed a million dollars a hundred times over. i am good Thank you let some other soul deal with the money.
Hmm...you can visit a lot of faires for $1 million, but not so many if you're dead. Then again, a 99% chance of living is better odds than crossing a street in Manhattan so I think I'd buy the ticket!
nope with odds like that the game has to be rigged and its a set up. Never trust something that sounds to good to be true because it will be a trap.
Those are a lot better odds than I was given to survive my last surgery. Legitimate odds of 99 to 1, hell yes I'd do it.
Agree with the legitimate odds...but...$1M isn't enough for me to do it. It'd have to be more than that before I'd even consider buying the ticket. Yes, I'm greedy with my lottery dreams. :)
I wuld want to make sure the two were mutually exclusive. It would just be my luck to get both. But yeah, probably. Especially if I get to choose how I die (asleep, of old age).