PSoTD

For A Million Dollars Meme

I've been tagged, with this:

1. When you're tagged, answer the question on your blog, with a trackback to the original post.

2. Ask an additional million dollar question — and tag 3 bloggers with answering.

The question is:

The million dollar question is - Would you give up one of your values / morals for $1 million?

Tough question to answer. Morals? Probably not. I only have a few, but they are pretty definitive of who I am. Values? Like everybody else, I have a wide range of values, they fluctuate in time in how I prioritize them, and sometimes values change to the point where they fall off the map. Some of the values have been with me, and strong, forever, but some have been changing since the beginning of my adulthood to the point where they rate pretty low as a priority to me.

On the other hand, one of the values that has been constantly dropping has been money. I value time a LOT more than money, but I value "good times" a lot more than "hard times", and I suspect that an easy to drop value would be worth a million dollars, as long as it didn't change the core of who I am.

But I guess that really wouldn't make it a value. Values are part of how you define yourself as well as morals, and this question eventually equates to

"Is there a part I like about myself that I'm willing to lose for a million dollars?"

And I guess the answer to that is no. What I like about myself, I want to keep.

Now, I'm going to tag the following bloggers

Cannablog
PoliTits
and MCCS1977

with this question:

If you found out there was a reward for turning in a family member to the police, would you do so for $1 million?

Posted by PSoTD on Tuesday May 13, 2008 at 7:10am |
Gort (mail) (www):
This reminds me of a Winston Churchill story.

Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?

Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course...

Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!

Churchill: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.
5.13.2008 12:49pm
Michael (www):
What Gort said (and by the way, Klaatu Barada Nikto).

Also, a million dollars would cover my medicine costs for about four years.
5.13.2008 2:16pm
lyzurgyk (www):
No. Even for a million dollars I wouldn't watch Faux News.
5.13.2008 2:42pm

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