ASE Labs: What If...? (NO Spam This Time)

Elixir

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What If...? (NO Spam This Time)

Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:37:55 PM #112636 Perm Link

So, my mother and I were talking a while ago about questions that are hard to answer. One of which was...

"You're in a boat with your significant other, your child, and your mother(or father). Suddenly the boat begins to sink and you're able to save only one person. Who do you save?"

I'm interested in your answers...and your reasoning behind them.

Haha...I don't even know if this thread is going to be a success or not, but might as well take a shot at it, right?

-Asylum

It rains and it pours when you're out on your own. If I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes? 'Cause I spent the night dancing, I'm drunk I suppose, and if it looks like I'm laughing, I'm really just asking to leave.

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free::zombie

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Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:56:15 PM #112639 Perm Link

This isn't the kind of situation where you could, or would want to, make a concious, "rational", decision. Ends up being pure chance. Whoever you're holding/whoever grabs your hand first. I know I'd never say "no, if I save you, I'd have to let XX to die, and they're more important".

Now let's hypothesize an instinctive decision. We can't make assumptions about "who you love most", we can only make guesses at evolutionary benefits. If you think that way, the child will probably be saved, especially your own child, "guaranteeing" the survival of your own genes. Though I could even imagine the partner to "win" in a strongly monogamous culture.

But in the end, the question boils down to "whose life is more important?". IMHO, that question is not only hard to answer, it's impossible to answer. I might even go so far as to say you shouldn't even try to seriously find an answer.

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Elixir

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Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:05:39 PM #112641 Perm Link

O_O

You know what, that's a nice view of it. That most certainly goes deeper into the entire question. >>;

Ignoring instinctive decisions and evolutionary benefits, who would you end up choosing, and why?

I must say you're very intelligent.

It rains and it pours when you're out on your own. If I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes? 'Cause I spent the night dancing, I'm drunk I suppose, and if it looks like I'm laughing, I'm really just asking to leave.

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free::zombie

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Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:11:03 PM #112648 Perm Link

I wouldn't chose. That's not a decision I'm willing to make. I don't have the right to decide who lives and who dies. Grab the closest hand, then dive back for the others and possibly die trying. There's no time for and no morality in weighing up one life against the other.

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Elixir

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Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:13:44 PM #112649 Perm Link

*le sigh* True. ._.

It rains and it pours when you're out on your own. If I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes? 'Cause I spent the night dancing, I'm drunk I suppose, and if it looks like I'm laughing, I'm really just asking to leave.

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SolidSnake

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Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:39:38 PM #112652 Perm Link

I would probably do the same as free zombie

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Takoyaki

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Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:16:26 PM #112683 Perm Link

I said before that I would've chosen my kid.
Everyone else,I guess has already lived life.

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Elixir

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Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:17:50 PM #112684 Perm Link

Kids are the future...but you can always have more.
You only have one mother. But she's lived life.
Your significant other. Idk. ._.

It rains and it pours when you're out on your own. If I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes? 'Cause I spent the night dancing, I'm drunk I suppose, and if it looks like I'm laughing, I'm really just asking to leave.

~ My Chemical Romance

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Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:32:52 PM #113285 Perm Link

i would save myself, because I am like that.

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Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:49:32 PM #114453 Perm Link

Freeze the lake with my ice-ray. It's just logical, really.

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Alexzander

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Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:19:55 PM #114462 Perm Link

I would save my significant other. I do love my mother but she has lived life. I wouldn't have a child because I can't have a child. If I did have a child... IDK...

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