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Life Raft

Only room for 1, make your choice.

  • Pregnant Lady

  • Killer in cuffs


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Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
Hypothetical situation.

You're airplane has crash landed in the ocean. Luckily the airline you used is one of the few that provides inflatable life rafts. You begin helping survivors onto the life raft. But it's almost full. You have only 1 spot left and the raft is at capacity. 2 survivors left asking for help.

One is a pregnant lady.

The other is a convicted killer in cuffs struggling to stay afloat.

Make your choice.
 

The Reverend Bob

Fart Machine and Beastmaster
What life skills do they both have in order to help me survive? Is the pregnant woman Hitler's future mother? Is the convict Fyodor Dostoevsky?
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Hypothetical situation.

You're airplane has crash landed in the ocean. Luckily the airline you used is one of the few that provides inflatable life rafts. You begin helping survivors onto the life raft. But it's almost full. You have only 1 spot left and the raft is at capacity. 2 survivors left asking for help.

One is a pregnant lady.

The other is a convicted killer in cuffs struggling to stay afloat.

Make your choice.

Do pregnant ladies float? o_O
 

suncowiam

Well-Known Member
Everybody's taking this as a joke. Shame on them!

The obvious answer to throw them both out. The pregnant lady might capsize the boat, while the killer is in handcuffs, so how useful could he be?
 

Stanyon

WWMRD?
depending on how long you will be stranded I'd say your better food value is with the pregnant woman because you could drink milk from the mother to stay hydrated and then if it comes down to it and she has the baby you get a two for one meal.
 

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
Not answering any specific details.


You people need to be able to think freely and make decisions based on your own principles without having the info framed a certain way and details you wouldn't normally know.

You was on a plane it crashed you survived you are now in this situation. Make a decision and quickly.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
Hypothetical situation.

You're airplane has crash landed in the ocean. Luckily the airline you used is one of the few that provides inflatable life rafts. You begin helping survivors onto the life raft. But it's almost full. You have only 1 spot left and the raft is at capacity. 2 survivors left asking for help.

One is a pregnant lady.

The other is a convicted killer in cuffs struggling to stay afloat.

Make your choice.
Neither choice is moral. That is the problem. Moral rules do not fit all situations. In this situation you save whichever one you like better.
 

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Hypothetical situation.

You're airplane has crash landed in the ocean. Luckily the airline you used is one of the few that provides inflatable life rafts. You begin helping survivors onto the life raft. But it's almost full. You have only 1 spot left and the raft is at capacity. 2 survivors left asking for help.

One is a pregnant lady.

The other is a convicted killer in cuffs struggling to stay afloat.

Make your choice.

Pregnant lady.

A cuffed killer could bring new dangers to that life-raft, because their morals and ethics would probably be more dodgy.

Easy. Survival on a life-raft would be tough. If you survive you can feel bad about it all afterwards.
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:D
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
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Because you can only chose to save one.

You can save a pregnant lady.

Or

A known killer wearing handcuffs.

Why do you think there is not a moral decision to be made?
The rules simply don't provide for an answer or so it seems to me.
 

Terry Sampson

Well-Known Member
Do pregnant ladies float? o_O

Screenshot_2019-05-20 Do pregnant women float - Google Search.png
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Why do you think there is a moral option?

A decision based on feelings. Absent any information to support a logical decision one is left to feel their way to doing the right thing.

Set your feelings aside, so no moral choice, the fair thing would be to flip a coin.

Hard to say, one has to be in the moment to feel whatever it is you are going to base your decision on. Feelings may take you to the wrong choice but at least you'll make one.

Culturally I've been taught to protect women and children first, so absent other influences, I suspect that is probably where my choice would lie.
 
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