Would You Shoot An Innocent Person For A Billion Dollars?

 Your given a gun. A innocent person is put in front of you. 

If you pull the trigger and kill them, you get given $1,000,000,000. 

If you were guaranteed to have legal immunity (not go to prison), would you do it?    

It's not even a decision. Click, boom.

No chance in hell.

no 

Well, I expected some ethical discussion to emerge here, but turns out I'm wrong. I'll just join in then.
 
No.

Probably not. I don't need a billion dollars - I wouldn't be able to use all of it in my entire life so it would mostly go to waste; if anyone knew about it too it would likely cause me a lot of problems.

I would. I'd then put the money towards Cancer research/other charities. It sucks pretty hard that someone has to die, but a billion dollars could save a lot of lives.

It would depend on what would happen if I said no. Would the person go free, or would they just drag someone else in and tell him to shoot them for the money, and if he says no, the process is repeated? If it's the former I wouldn't do it, money isn't that important. If it's the latter, the person is going to die whether or not I do it, so I might as well do it and have the money.
 
That's thinking logically, anyway. But in reality all of these sorts of questions are flawed, because firstly, it's something that is never going to happen. And secondly, no-one would know what they would do in that situation unless they were put in it.

If all they said was "shoot this person and you'll receive the money," then yes.  Because, of course, they never actually specify what to shoot them with. 
 
I'd pull out my imaginary finger-gun, sneak up behind them and yell "POW POW!" 
Then i'd have the money.

As we all know from the Twilight Zone, you would end up being the innocent person. 

BOOM!   I mean shit, give 100 million to that person's family to rid your conscience and move on.  

Shoot or kill?  I can shoot people and not kill them.
 
If I offered the guy 500 million dollars given to his family in exchange for his life and he agrees, does that make him innocent?
 
If someone offered me half a billion dollars to be given to my family and all I got to do is die, hells yeah I do it.  I'm going to die for free eventually.

If someone right now, right here, put an innocent person in front of me, put a gun in my hand, and provided no other information than "if you kill this guy I'll give you  $1,000,000,000, as well as a document that grants you legal immunity", then no, I wouldn't shoot that person.

OH fuck, really?! 50% of you would do it? That's fucked up.

yes, it would be the easiest decision in my life.

No because that person would haunt me forever.

Beside the fact that no one is truly innocent, and that I want the money, I suppose I would have to go with...

" As we all know from the Twilight Zone, you would end up being the innocent person.  "

See, look at it this way, with 1,000,000,000 dollars, you can save countless thousands of lives. You could virtually end hunger for at least a few thousand people for the rest of their lives.

I would, a billion dollars could buy me a lot of fine Scotch to clear my conscience.

Current leader YES?
Boy, you guys are EVIL!

Nobody's truly innocent; I'd shoot them and justify it with some crime they may have done, maybe.

no probably not, i'm pretty damn happy without money, and if i did that i'd be pretty damn unhappy with money. easy decision for me.

I'm content with what I have, I don't want large sums of money.

Absolutely not. 
 
Life > Money.

if i dont know the innocent person of curse i do, it's 1000000000 $ we are talking, i can give to his/her family at least 10 millions

A billion seems a bit fishy. I'd question the motives behind it -- this wouldn't be some sort of Jigsaw madness, where he's doing it to teach the victim a lesson, and a billion seems way too far fetched for some bored, wealthy madman... Unless it's some billionaire who's like, "If you do this, you will inherit my entire empire. Why? Cause I have no children and I figured I'd 'play God' one last time before I died and totally fuck with some poor souls on a meta-level". 
 
I'd be cool with that. Hell, I'd do it for less.

No. Don'y get me wrong, at first I know I would be willing to without a doubt. But then I also realize that as the years went on, the thought of killing an innocent person would eat away at me.

Yes.  I would do it, but with a  twist.  I would have the man wear squibs and switch the gun out with blanks.  Then when I fired he you push the button to release the squibs and play dead, then I would get the billion dollars and he would live.

If I spent several million dollars on medical research that might save thousands of people's lives, would that justify his death in any extent?
 
Yes, give me the gun.

No

Yeah, the only situation where I would even think about doing it is if I were to put all of it towards some sort of medical research / aid programs. Then, it would be justified.

I'd do it for a Billion pounds.

No.  Gotta be honest, there's just not a whole bunch of mega-expensive shit that I particularly want that badly in the first place.

That's a hard question, although there are things that no money can buy. 

I don't know! Ahh! 
 
On one hand that money could go to some kind of charity or disease research. If I could talk to the guy beforehand he might agree. He could want me to do it to donate to charity and give some to his family. That is assuming I could speak to him, and he was a horrendously noble fellow.  
 
On the other hand I'm not sure I could shoot anyone, let alone a random, innocent person. As much good as the money could do, I'd be stealing the rest of this guys life from him and his loved ones. Not sure I could live with that.  
 
Granted I could talk to the guy I was about to shoot, I'd do what he told me to do. If I can't, then I don't believe I'd shoot him.

No, I wouldn't. 
 
Some people would look at the situation in a Utilitarian light and say that they could save lots of people with a billion dollars, but I don't buy that argument. If you would be willing to kill somebody for a billion dollars, then does that mean you'd be okay with somebody else killing you for a billion dollars? They may potentially save a lot of lives with all of that money, after all.

id take my chances even if there was no immunity

Noooooooooooooooo.

I ain't no sell out

Simply, no.

I'd shoot they guy in the foot and give him half. 
 
edit: didn't see the kill word. So probably not then.

1. Tell them this might hurt a bit...or ALOT.
2. Shoot them in the foot.
3. Rush them to the hospital.
4. Collect the money.
5. Pay for the surgery and donate to the family.
 
Done and done.
 
If the shot has to kill them, then no.

I shoot him in the stomach only to let him live long enough to see me throwing the money into a fire. *muahaha*

Few points:
 

• Whatever decision you'd make now would probably change in the situation
• No person is truely innocent unless they are a pretty much newborn baby. Would you shoot a baby for a billion dollars?
• On the other hand, shooting a baby doesn't necessarily mean killing
• Taken from the fact that half of you guys would do it, that's a lot of money lost and probably a lot of lives