The Button of Death
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You can have it all- fame, glory, riches. All you have to do is press a button- but what does the button do? What if pressing the button meant killing someone? Would you do it? What if you could have whatever you most desired, multiplied by a hundred, if you pressed the button twice? But what if that meant killing two infants? Does the reward overcome the guilt?
Inspired by the famous Milgram experiment, The Button of Death reveals the complexity of the gray area of morality, and tests the limits of one human's humanity.
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