How would sacrificing your life make that possible? Strange question.

If that is the only solution. Yes it would be for all my family.
I gladly sacrifice for my loved ones.

What kind of life will I live if I'm dead?

Not your post, not your decision.

Solver asked a rhetorical question. You can't answer rhetorical questions logically.

It does not work that way.

Especially since you are Implying it was me who killed the population of the planet, whereas the initial question was an either/or alternative.

It is the methodology of the left. Projecting and blaming when there is no foundation for either.

No, not as stated. It is all or nothing; all or you, actually, We are not asking for your personal list of archenemies.

Care to explain, old man?

No wife, no kids, no dog or cat, just you... OK. And when you are gone, then what, given that by your choice, you killed 6.5 billion people?

How do you define your self interest? What kind of life will you live, and for how long, if everyone else is dead?

It was a short question with short answers. Let me explain mine.

The terms of the challenge are not explained at all. It can be an example of Orwellian thinking. I mean by that the way that in Orwell's 1984 "thinking" (so-called) was reduced to short, declarative statements without context. Modern schooling is built on that with multiple choice and True-False questions. Ideology and religion depend on that, of course, which was Orwell's point.

I said Yes because I am almost 70 and since I read Anthem at 16 and the rest of Rand's works soon thereafter, I have always lived by the virtue of selfishness, what Rand called "man qua man." If everyone else on Earth were dead, I might live another 10 years at best, but be limited by whatever I could achieve alone. And when I died, that would be the end of humanity. If I could make my way to one of the radio astronomy sites and begin broadcasting the history of humanity into outer space, that would be about the limit of what I could hope to achieve. And it would end there.

We all have to go. No one gets out of here alive. Working in protective services and the military, I learned a bit of fatalism. The perfect soldier is still the guy standing in the wrong place when the mortar round comes down. I am not at heart a fatalist. I believe that choices matter. But if the Fickle Finger of Fate chooses me, well, there it is.

I believe that humanity is destined to inherit the stars. Individuals of stellar potential will always be born. What is most important is that those individuals flourish. Human intelligence is the most precious resource on Earth. Look at the evolution of the hand ax. Going back about 1-3/4 million years to about 200,000 years ago, it changed little, even though it was inherited and used by two or three successive kinds of humans or hominids. Even an ice age ago, a genius might be born once every three or four generations. If they lived, if they thrived, their material inventions - fire, tattooing, rock art, ceramics, the atl-atl, herding and domestication -- might be passed on. Now, with 6.5 billion people on Earth, we are awash with geniuses who need to be liberated so that we might all benefit from their intelligence.

And as far as "ordinary" people go, the Flynn Effect suggests that the average intelligence is rising. Capitalism, industrialism, the Information Age, the scientific revolution, they all have consequences.

Certainly not. I'd find a solution.

Nice catch.

Does 'all' include me?

Rhetorical question: May I choose some not to live?

If it's out of self-interest.
So- no, I wouldn't.

No.

What is the tolerance or certainty here? I would like to know if only because I cannot view the final outcome.
(Will everyone know I did it? Or will my sacrifice be anonymous? Just asking...)
But accepting the challenge as stated in simple terms, my answer is yes.

No