Seriously now, if you don't press the button, are you still doomed to die no matter what?Especially if your not on that situation where you need to be killed in order to save your child. If whoever gets the box next presses it, and you hadn't, are you dying or would some other stranger?
shareI haven't seen this film, just the (original?) Twilight Zone version, but if you don't press the button then you're not in the loop, when the next person presses the button the person who had the box before you gets done.
shareNothing would've happened if you didn't press it. You wouldn't involved in any way.
shareIf you didn't press the button, you wouldn't get the million dollars. He would come back the next day and take the button to reprogram it for someone else.
"Cum Grano Salis"