Pricelessness? HA.

I am riding again; I see an anti-abortion poster. Someone has torn part of it down and drawn a big red cross over it. But I can still read part of the website address - it has the word "Priceless" in it. Which gets me thinking; would they really consider it a priceless thing if the right price DID come along?

If someone was, by their protesting, opinion or somesuch, stopping one single abortion, how much do you think they could be bought off for?

Take $100,000.

For a goodly number of people that might do it; concerns over their money in future would be soothed. It's one abortion, they can let it go when thousands happen each day even with their efforts. The money could probably be partly used to help their protesting in the future.

But for more fanatical people, that might not be enough. They'd let it stand, possibly to "resist temptation" in the moral code they have. So since we're hypothetical, let's go a lot higher.

$1 million? Probably still wouldn't get quite a few takers.

$10 million? Hmm...

$100 million? I think most opinions would sway by now; but I'm slightly pro-abortion so I don't know that for sure. I think for $100 million you could persuade nearly people to look the other way on one abortion; hardly matters after all. If you're anti-abortion, and disagree with this, feel free to post it; but please consider on whether you would be persuaded if it happened to you. Don't lie to yourself.


All this bargaining talk led me to think of devil's bargains; selling your soul and whatnot. While most people reading this probably wouldn't sell their soul at any price, there's the interesting matter of a different bargain.

Assume the devil, or some other entity if you're an militant atheist, can offer you anything at all in exchange for bending some of your priceless morals; and is good at showcasing it to you too. Consider the thing you want most, your deepest darkest fetish or desire; in sexuality or spaceships or shape shifting or SOMETHING. How many of your morals do you think stand up? Killing someone you know probably stands; killing or torturing someone you don't? Hmm. I can't think on what issues people are fanatical right now (it's a bit late), so can you mention some?