Can you be bought?

No ma’am. And I’ve had a lot of money thrown at me to encourage me to employ some of my more… unusual talents. In the work I used to do, there were many opportunities for corruption. There was a lot of valuables at stake. The kind of thing that could change the economy of an entire planet.

Call me silly, but there’s no way I’m going to try to capture and destroy one of the rarest creatures in the known universe, just to dig out the parson jewel. When I refused them, though, they got particularly angry, and it almost caused another war, just trying to get away from them.

I do love my peace and quiet, now.

There are plenty of things I wouldn’t do under any circumstance. Would I kill someone for $20 million dollars? Nope, and not for $200M, or more. As for killing animals, well, I only do that if I am going to cook and eat them, so that’s different.

There are a few things I wouldn’t do for any price (namely kill someone close to me, sacrifice something VERY important to me, etc), but, for the vast majority of things, I would. For example, I would attempt to kick a Clydesdale to death in twenty minutes with steel toed boots if it would release every political prisoner, as cited by Amnesty International. </Chuck Klosterman reference>

If my son’s life depended on it, I think I might do anything.

If it were just for money, it’d have to be a lot of money and I couldn’t kill a person. I could kill an animal, but only if it was going to be eaten (like evelyns said).

Yeah, I can usually be bought for just a beer or some food. I’m easy, and open to most anything. I wouldn’t kill anything though, it’s just not worth the guilt..

@rancid
Intrigued, can you extrapolate? Privately if you wish?
@TitsMcGhee
hardcore, i respect that and hopefully it won’t have to happen

There are quite a few things I would do but not anything. And of course the older you get it seems these areas start to get grayer and grayer. You couldn’t pay me to kill someone unless it was obviously to save others in danger. But Indecent proposal? A million bucks? Bring it on. I’ll even warm her up for you :)

I cant be bought

I wouldn’t kill someone for any amount of money. I might kill someone (like, say Hitler) if I knew for a fact it would save many more lives.

I’m probably just as fallible as many others so I can’t definitively say that I could never be bought but I’d like to think that I can’t be bought. We have a code of ethics in our military police career field that we’re supposed to abide by at all times and I can safely say that I do my utmost to follow those directives to the best of my abilities each day.

There are probably ‘exceptions to the rule’, so to speak, much like @augustlan mentioned in her post above. In an instance like that, I could see the merit in being bought even though it would probably still be uncomfortable and/or problematic.

I think, and no offense to anyone, that most people make it easy for themselves to “think” they don’t have a price tag. An illusion easily entertained for the plain fact that it is indeed not very likely that someone will walk by and ask you to microwave kittens for a million or kill someone for two.

This unlikeliness makes it quite abstract, thus, easy to go with “values” one knows would be correct.

Long story short, you’d probably never know what you’d be capable of doing unless this big wad of cash would be right in front of you.

I’m easily bought.

I would prob do just about anything for the right price

Wouldn’t you HAVE to do pretty much anything under some circumstances? If the mob threatened your life or the life of a loved one? Then, too, I think about the “SAW” movies.

I could certainly be bought, given the proper leverage. I don’t know what that leverage is, but I am sure it exists.

I’ve always told my students that my price is $275,000. They ask why that specific number, and I’ve always said that I could then, if necessary, leave the country.

That price, by the way, is only applicable for school-related things, ie. changing a grade, moving a test back, giving out an answer, etc.

It is too low a price, I think. You will not be comfortable when you go to another country. Maybe India. Maybe Africa. But it is more dangerous sometimes in those places. You will run out of moneyin a few years, and you will not have a job like here. I mean with the pay.

I know you joke, but it is not credible. To tell credible joke, you must offer a credible price. Perhaps you will calculate it now?

@TitsMcGhee
The problem with the Clydesdale is that my guess is that the kicking to death scenario would be reversed. Have you ever been kicked by a Clydesdale?
Now for the tourists on horses in Central Park…game on. :)

Sure I can and have. My best friend needed help cleaning her ginormous house, way too big. She offered to hem some pants (I can’t sew!) instead of me taking them and paying to have them fixed. (several pairs of pants)

I organized a friend’s home office, he constantly had piles of paperwork and just junk all over, he was considering paying an organizer to do the work for him. In return, he helped my husband strip and refinish the built-in shelves in my home office.

Again…my bf wanted to paint her bedroom and bathroom, in return – they cooked dinner for my family and we helped them out.

Being bought happens all the time – it’s all in how you look at it. For my children or husband, if it was a health issue, I can’t imagine what I wouldn’t do to save their lives.

I’m selling myself everytime I go to my job, that’s a normal thing for most people.
Yes, I could be bought or consent to indentured servitude in exchange for what I feel would most help my family or loved ones. I lived several years like that in agreement with a former partner.

how much are we talking about here?