I'm glad Joe changed the slant of the topic because, frankly, I don't know why people kept on discussing the matter after Soserene's response. We can't improve on it one bit.
Ameth A. Morgana wrote:B.S. - this is what I'd do the first time I pushed the button, I'd wish that it only ever killed those within five seconds from death (people are dieing all the time). This way I'd be doing very little harm, and, depending on what I wished for, very much good. Hell - by the second wish I could heal all the dieing (which is not to say I would), or put Bush out of office, or anything. That anyone would say that they wouldn't push that button is beyond me - it's pseudo imperialism.
Hey! Thats a cop-out! No tampering with the button or who/how it kills... 
Just for that, I'm making a modification to the button: Whomever it kills will experience a PAINFUL death (no other qualifiers for the word. It might be a relatively long or short death, but certainly within 6 hours the person will be pushing up daisies).
To be unwilling to sacrifice is to be impotent. The real question is, if I can paraphrase Gus:
"Do I really NEED another beer? Or should I switch to vodka.."
I am not for the 'let's save every life possible' and be impotent while doing that.
I say let's fight for the better of mankind, for greater understanding and greater Universe.
Let's fight for what is globally important, and let's fight for knowledge. And let's be brave.
Relative.
