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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.
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Four other choices:
  1. Save both but not yourself.
  2. Save both and hope the raft doesn't sink.
  3. Find someone else on the raft less desirable.
  4. Don't save either.

Not realistic choices, with the exception of save both and hope raft doesn't sink.
 

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
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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.

So two people out of the three will die. Either me and the pregnant woman, the convict and me, or the pregnant woman and the convict.

For me it's an easy choice. I help the pregnant woman onto the raft.

With no further information, I might conclude that she has a SO and the child has a father. So three lives would be affected directly should she die. Further, I've lived well over half of my life, and given she's pregnant, she potentially has more time to spend on this earth than I do.

Since it's not for me to judge others, I can only go on probabilities here, unless the woman or the convict offer a reason why my choice isn't justified.
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Sorry if you can't make basic human decisions.
Oh I can.
I'm quite judgemental.

But I don't tend to make them in the simplistic terms that primitive religionists do.
I have thousands of years more wisdom and information to draw on than any Scriptures authors did. And I have a far better understanding of the 21st century than they possibly could have.
I am more moral than anybody who wrote in the Bible. It's just a simple fact.
Tom
 

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
So two people out of the three will die. Either me and the pregnant woman, the convict and me, or the pregnant woman and the convict.

2 out of 3?

If the pregnant woman dies. That's 2 lives lost.

If the convict dies that is 1 life lost.

Saving the pregnant woman saves 2 lives.
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Good make a decision then.

Save the pregnant lady.

Or

The convict.
Is the pregnant lady a mass murderer, fleeing the Hague and the convict a black guy railroaded by the Alabama "justice system"?

The reason I ask is because I know how rarely simplistic hypotheticals have much to do with the messy and nuanced reality that we live in.
Tom
 

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
Is the pregnant lady a mass murderer, fleeing the Hague and the convict a black guy railroaded by the Alabama "justice system"?

The reason I ask is because I know how rarely simplistic hypotheticals have much to do with the messy and nuanced reality that we live in.
Tom

Thing is you dont know. You can only make decision based of what you can see and current knowledge.

The lady is pregnant. That's all you know about her.

The convict you can discern he is dangerous, or why else would he be in handcuffs?
 
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