It's not always easy to make the right decisions. Are you a gambler? If you're offered 1 btc without playing or 5 btc by playing (with a chance of 2 to 1). What do you do?
I'm a gambling man (at least I think), I've taken far greater risks than this that I could say with full certainty I wouldn't be too fazed by the prospect of a bitcoin. But in the face of getting a guaranteed reward with no strings attached against a higher reward with the catch of putting it into chance, I'd choose the guaranteed one all day. There's just no question about it. You as a gambler know that it's always better to get guaranteed rewards than putting it all into luck and chance-based mechanics, and even though 1 bitcoin's smaller compared to 5 bitcoin, In the face of a large amount of money it doesn't really matter anymore, regardless of if you didn't get the 5 bitcoin, by choosing the former choice you're already setting yourself up to a little over 70k USD, which is not so bad if I do say so myself.
I wouldn't persecute the others who chose to gamble their luck and play with the 5 bitcoin gamble, it's just not my cup of tea and perhaps have you made a more compelling comparison I may have chosen to play bets with you but it's just so easy, you're giving me all the things to work with and none for you, the choice is simple and I think a lot of people in here would agree with me too.