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10 September 2002, 01:20 PM
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Depends on the families 
Seriously though, depends on circumstances that are surrounding why I am in that position to start with, can you give background?
For example, if I did sacrifice myself, would the families actually survive or would it be a futile effort?
Seriously though, depends on circumstances that are surrounding why I am in that position to start with, can you give background?
For example, if I did sacrifice myself, would the families actually survive or would it be a futile effort?
10 September 2002, 02:07 PM
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Jason...i want to know peoples mentalities.....we are born survivors...but could YOU live with the guilt of letting five fammilies die?????I dont think i could........
10 September 2002, 02:11 PM
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I could.
Don't know them. Although I could save them by my selfless act, its not due to me that they are going to die.
Therefore I have no guilt.
D
Don't know them. Although I could save them by my selfless act, its not due to me that they are going to die.
Therefore I have no guilt.
D
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10 September 2002, 02:12 PM
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Phil I would have to take the option of being a survivor! Not knowing the 'families' I would be saving is a hell of a lottery!
Plus, who knows if I stay alive - I might be able to help more than 5 families in another situ.
Plus, who knows if I stay alive - I might be able to help more than 5 families in another situ.
10 September 2002, 02:12 PM
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Thanks CC..that is a compliment...LOL.
Diablo....fair enuff....ok let me say you see a family in a burning car..would you risk your life to try and save them????
Diablo....fair enuff....ok let me say you see a family in a burning car..would you risk your life to try and save them????
10 September 2002, 02:21 PM
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OK then...say there is yourself at gun point and a 8 year old kid at gunpoint you didnt know...would you sacrifice yourself to save the kid??????Again i dont think i could live with the guilt...
10 September 2002, 02:23 PM
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Being in the army is more like the burning car question rather than your first question.
If it was die or they die, then everyone will choose survival, if it's fight or they die, then the choice should be fight.
If it was die or they die, then everyone will choose survival, if it's fight or they die, then the choice should be fight.
10 September 2002, 02:34 PM
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It's all very well asking the question Phil and then saying you 'think' you couldn't live with the guilt. I don't think anyone can truthfully answer until they are actually confronted with the choice of sacrifice or survive. Then only can you see how strong human instinct of survival is.
10 September 2002, 02:39 PM
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Ima.
on the 8 year old question, its a difficult call, but it shouldn't be dependant on age/sex whatever.
At the end of the day its me or them, they take the bullet.
D
on the 8 year old question, its a difficult call, but it shouldn't be dependant on age/sex whatever.
At the end of the day its me or them, they take the bullet.
D
10 September 2002, 02:43 PM
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LOL.....Jason...
We should all in a perfect world say yes to my question....thats where i am going.
I know its hard..but the most important question here is could you live with the guilt of knowing you could have saved 5 families.......nowt wrong with saying yes..it means you are out for yourself...and why not?..I on the other hand would feel shame...nowt wrong with admitting that.
We should all in a perfect world say yes to my question....thats where i am going.
I know its hard..but the most important question here is could you live with the guilt of knowing you could have saved 5 families.......nowt wrong with saying yes..it means you are out for yourself...and why not?..I on the other hand would feel shame...nowt wrong with admitting that.
10 September 2002, 03:17 PM
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let them die. ppl die all the time.
if i sell my scoob i could give the money to some starving folk and they'd live, i dont and they die.
thats life.
and i dont think ppl join the forces to die for some unkown family.
T
if i sell my scoob i could give the money to some starving folk and they'd live, i dont and they die.
thats life.
and i dont think ppl join the forces to die for some unkown family.
T
10 September 2002, 03:24 PM
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Tiggs what do they die for then????To save us i thought?
I was saying a hypothetical stiuation...
I would have thought that most humans would feel guilt
Obviously wrong...
I was saying a hypothetical stiuation...
I would have thought that most humans would feel guilt
Obviously wrong...
10 September 2002, 03:32 PM
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It's a stupid question, and totally meaningless.
If it was 5 members of my wife's family, I'd save them. If it was 5 members of my own family, I'd let 'em die.
If it was 5 strangers, I'd let them die.
As Tiggs says, we all make decisions every day which if made differently could save peoples' lives. The amount of money I spend on food per day could feed a family of 6 for a week or longer in the 3rd-world. But there's no way I'm going to give up my KFC or the large pizza I've just eaten and give the money to charity...
If it was 5 members of my wife's family, I'd save them. If it was 5 members of my own family, I'd let 'em die.
If it was 5 strangers, I'd let them die.
As Tiggs says, we all make decisions every day which if made differently could save peoples' lives. The amount of money I spend on food per day could feed a family of 6 for a week or longer in the 3rd-world. But there's no way I'm going to give up my KFC or the large pizza I've just eaten and give the money to charity...
10 September 2002, 03:40 PM
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"Tiggs what do they die for then"
i dont think they join to die at all?
this is all cack anyway.
if i told you you could get on a plane fly to africa and use your own wealth to transform the lives of twenty families while saving half of them from certain death would you? go on, you dont even have to die for it!
get yourself a flight then!
T
ps- marko, for a stuff crust i would actually kill 10 families
i dont think they join to die at all?
this is all cack anyway.
if i told you you could get on a plane fly to africa and use your own wealth to transform the lives of twenty families while saving half of them from certain death would you? go on, you dont even have to die for it!
get yourself a flight then!
T
ps- marko, for a stuff crust i would actually kill 10 families
10 September 2002, 03:54 PM
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heres another angle guys:
What if you sacrificed yourself to let the 5 families live
and one of them went on to commit some haenus(sp?) crime
against mankind?
Your futile act of self sacrifice has actually cost the lives
of hundreds of families instead of saving 5.
just a thought!!!!!
Dougie
What if you sacrificed yourself to let the 5 families live
and one of them went on to commit some haenus(sp?) crime
against mankind?
Your futile act of self sacrifice has actually cost the lives
of hundreds of families instead of saving 5.
just a thought!!!!!
Dougie
10 September 2002, 05:00 PM
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But..i would know i done what i thought was right.Regardless of what happens afterwards!
You join the army..knowing that your life is on the line for your country so our children can grow.
No i wouldnt give money to starving families like i f*cking said its not my business...i am just saying would you give your life to save others..and quite blatently you have all said no!!!!
You join the army..knowing that your life is on the line for your country so our children can grow.
No i wouldnt give money to starving families like i f*cking said its not my business...i am just saying would you give your life to save others..and quite blatently you have all said no!!!!
