Forums → The Tavern → Would you rather get infinity amount of money or save a life?

I'm sure several people saying they'd choose the life just to look good, and I'm sure others are thinking the same thing and just not saying it. But on topic, give a man a fish, teach a man to fish, you know the saying. Save a life now, and you've extended the lifespan of one person. Use money to donate to charity, hospitals, medical research.... I know the skepticism about scientists not working due to gaining more money off of sick people, but here's another saying: Give a man enough money, and he'll walk barefoot into Hell, or at least put full effort into research.

If you have an infinite amount of money, then spend billions of it, you would push the value of the dollar (or other currency) down. Eventually, your going to screw everyone over when you bring down the value of the dollar down to near zero. So screw every one over so that you can be happy for a while? Or save a life. I would save a life.

If the life is a close family member or close friend, I'd save them.

If not, I'd take the money. However, I wouldn't recklessly spend it. I'd put large amount of it towards charities and such.

Save a life. Life is more important than money.

an infinite amount of money!! I can save WAY more than one life with a giant never- ending chunk of cash at my disposal.

I'm totally with ernie, and would choose the money. I could save more than a life, be it with research funds, humanitary help (well-placed of course, spending money brainlessly won't help a thing) or supporting the education around the world.
Master has a point though, I would have to be careful to not flood the world with money. But I think judiciously spent money can spend a whole lotta lives.

Infinite amount of money = Unlimited research facilities
Unlimited research facilities = Cures for cancer, AIDS, and other deadly diseases
Cures for cancer, AIDS, and other deadly diseases = Save more than one life

Money wins again.

I'm going with the money. The reasons why have already been explained by other people on here who chose the money.

money... unless it was a close person whose life i was saving

Why yes, I'd accept infinite tons of money to save my life.

It depends on the life, because even though it's a fact that every life starts with the same worth as any other, they don't have the same worth to me.

Infinite amount of money = Unlimited research facilities
Unlimited research facilities = Cures for cancer, AIDS, and other deadly diseases
Cures for cancer, AIDS, and other deadly diseases = Save more than one life
Money wins again.

Yeah, but if the life I'd have to give up to have this is the one of the person I love, I'd never be happy, even knowing I could save every human on earth with the power of Go...Money.

I'd rather save my mother or my ex-girlfriend or my best friend than have all the money in the world. Aside from those, I guess I'd take the money and make some miracles.

I would get the money because i could use it to help much more than one person

Sa ing a life would give you a amazing since of accomplishment.

I'd only save one person, which would be my best friend, without him, I'd be dead inside.

Other than that, I'd just take the money and donate a lot to some charities.

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I know we're not being realistic anyway, but an infinite amount of money?
It's really not possible, you could just make everyone in the world a billionaire, you could've just said something like a million dollars.

Yeah, that's what I *tried* to state in my last post.
Must have failed epically.