If a button gave you 1 million dollars for pressing it, but killed 1 random human being in the world

[freshwest]

43. Agreed. And if someone else does push that button, our buttons get pushed. Keeps going on.

And all peoples must agree to not push their own button - and all at the same time and for the future - or we'll all still have buttons.

Those with opposing buttons will want to verify others won't push their own. This is what treaties and diplomacy are about.

Going further with provocative questions:

Can humans trust other humans to restrain their desire to take land, resources, impose their lifestyle, religion, etc. on others for their vision or comfort?

How does one prevent those conflicts before buttons are pushed the first time, if humans will not agree to grant others freedoms we value, land, resources, etc. long before any of the buttons are pushed?

Even worse to consider:

Is this how 'just wars' begin or end?

Is there anything good about pushing a button in such a complex world with so many conflicting interests?

Can an analogy as the OP presents apply to real world situations?

The OP speaks of an experiment and offers a moral test that implies omipotence in such decisions. It's in a vacuum, not the real world where all is connected.

But I just don't buy the analogy of a person making $1M for killing one person. Our leaders don't get rich per kill. They work under the belief that, for the most part, they are saving the lives they treasure. Even Bush wasn't offering the lives of those he cared about but those he didn't care about, well, their deaths still helped the people he wanted to protect.

While Cheney appears to have been directly enriched from the wars, it was more about his cabal. Consider ISIS or other mass murderers in history. They believe(d) themselves to be worth more than others, and have or will gleefully kill anyone who gets in the way of their vision.

So 'It's a good thing,' to them, not to others.

Some will kill one for an insurance settlement, to take their property or get something else they value more than another person's life.

Anyway, I've got work to do, hope you will give me your answers.

Given the dry format of the question being posed, no, I would not. But I've seen too many who would. And that is why buttons exist.