Would you dump your girlfriend/boyfriend permanently for $50 million?

This situation would never happen.

Let me repeat. This situation would never happen.

Let me repeat this again. This situation would never happen.

What questions like these are about are finding the similarities and differences between people’s ethics and people’s desires.

The unstated question is “What’s more important to people: love or money/ethics and self-respect or greed?”

Life rarely gives us such cut and dried possibilities, which is why these questions are fun in the abstract. Love and money are both important to people. There’s a good argument to be made that love (especially romantic love) isn’t possible without at least some semblance of financial security (not rich, mind you, but at least being stable enough to support yourself). An equally good argument can be made that money without someone you love to share it with is a hollow existence.

Since no one is ever going to give you this amount of money for something so ridiculous, it’s fun to see what people’s answers are and how they justify them. Some people will dump their significant others for a lot less than this. Some people are so in love they’d never consider it.

Eighteen years ago, Darva Conger married Rick Rockwell for money on a spectacularly tacky game show. She was never interested in him and he was hurt. Obviously they broke up. She got the bulk of the societal flak, but he should have gotten equally as much for thinking his money could buy true love.