Would you save 10 million people?
 

Here is the conundrum: You have the ability to save 10 miilion people by giving up your own in that pursuit. The catch is no one will ever know it. Would you do it?

The second choice is, given the same set circumstances, would you still save them if it meant giving up your own life, and going down in history as being a mass murderer and traitor?

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Here is the conundrum: You have the ability to save 10 miilion people by giving up your own in that pursuit. The catch is no one will ever know it. Would you do it?

The second choice is, given the same set circumstances, would you still save them if it meant giving up your own life, and going down in history as being a mass murderer and traitor?

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hmmmm quite the conundrum...

yes, yes.

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no and no, what if one of those 10 million people turned out to be the next hitler and killed 20 million

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What is the point of hypothetical questions like this one?

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What is the point of hypothetical questions like this one?

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Why do you want to know?

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Why do you want to know?

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What's it to you?

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No, No


I guess Im just an ass.

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Could jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even he coudlnt eat it?

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If in those 10 million people, my wife or one of my sons was included: Yes

If not: Hell no, I'd rather watch my sons grow.

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no and no, what if one of those 10 million people turned out to be the next hitler and killed 20 million

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this reasoning makes no sense - you could just as easily say 'what if one of these 10 million people cured AIDS and cancer' - we know nothing about these people so we have to disregard thinking like this.

-DrG

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As long as I didn't know them, why would I save 10 million people for any reason? The world's overpopulated as it is.

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Yes and no.

My life is more valuable than ten million others easy.

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No on both counts, unless one of the would-be victims is someone important to me.

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no and no, what if one of those 10 million people turned out to be the next hitler and killed 20 million

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I really hope this isn't a serious post.

Yes;Yes..it's not really that close. I don't care that much about how I'm remembered, and while I do care about my life, I don't see anything special enough about it to sacrifice 10 million people.

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change it to 1 billion and then, maybe, i would do it.

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Also, this post belongs in the Math, Science, and Philosophy forum.

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while I do care about my life, I don't see anything special enough about it to sacrifice 10 million people.

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How about the fact that it's yours and it's the only one you'll get? What makes you think your life is any less significant than 10 million others?

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If part of the 10 million are important to me, then probably (depending specifically on who they are).

If not, then fuxi-naw.

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Yes and no.

My life is more valuable than ten million others easy.

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i did get a laugh out of this...

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to those saying no and citing compassion for family members/friends but not for 10 million randoms, what is so special about someone you know compared to someone you don't? what if it was a 2nd cousin or maybe 4th cousin removed?

what will drive you to give up your life for you sister or mother but say [censored] off to 10 million people that you could save? how does that make any sense?

imagine you are standing up on a platform over a canyon and they had the 10 million people all there ready to be driven over the edge. they are asking you if you will save them or not and you say hell no and watch them all die. who the hell would do that? 10 million people... come on.

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I have no idea how anyone can answer yes to this, unless you're like 85 years old or grimstarr.

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who the hell would do that? 10 million people... come on.

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Most people

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what if it was a 2nd cousin or maybe 4th cousin removed?

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Then it sucks to be them.

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what will drive you to give up your life for you sister or mother but say [censored] off to 10 million people

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The fact that my mother, father, and sisters have been the most significant people in my life for all of it (not quite all for the sisters, because I am the oldest) and I would not have a problem with expressing my gratitude by dying so they could live.

What have the 10 million random people done for me? Are they even Americans or part of some other civilized country that will benefit me somehow in the future?

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imagine you are standing up on a platform over a canyon and they had the 10 million people all there ready to be driven over the edge. they are asking you if you will save them or not and you say hell no and watch them all die. who the hell would do that? 10 million people... come on.

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Don't be so ridiculous.

Of course I wouldn't watch.

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Besides... if God won't save the 10 million people, why should I? Unlike me, He doesn't have to die. They're all yours big fella.

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The fact that my mother, father, and sisters have been the most significant people in my life for all of it (not quite all for the sisters, because I am the oldest) and I would not have a problem with expressing my gratitude by dying so they could live.

What have the 10 million random people done for me? Are they even Americans or part of some other civilized country that will benefit me somehow in the future?


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is it really the fact that they've "done something" for you. if you have a newborn baby, it hasn't done anything for you but you'd save it. what's the real reason.

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The second choice is, given the same set circumstances, would you still save them if it meant giving up your own life, and going down in history as being a mass murderer and traitor?

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Does anyone actually care about how they would be remembered in history? The people that matter would know you werent a murderer. Why does it matter what anyone else thinks? You'd be dead.

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is it really the fact that they've "done something" for you. if you have a newborn baby, it hasn't done anything for you but you'd save it. what's the real reason.

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Because I would love my baby and it would be my duty as a parent to protect it with my life if I had to.

I do not have any love for 10 million random strangers, nor do I feel any sense of duty to go on a suicide mission to protect them.

Would I risk my life to save them? Sure... but I won't walk into certain death.

I've been very polite and answered your questions. Now I would like for you to answer mine.

Why would YOU sacrifice your life, the only life you will ever have, and leave all of your loved ones behind, to save a bunch of people who have never and will possibly never influence your life or the life of anyone you ever have or ever will be a part of?

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btw this topic has been posted a few times before. most people wouldn't give up their own lives.

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is it really the fact that they've "done something" for you. if you have a newborn baby, it hasn't done anything for you but you'd save it. what's the real reason.

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Because I would love my baby and it would be my duty as a parent to protect it with my life if I had to.

I do not have any love for 10 million random strangers, nor do I feel any sense of duty to go on a suicide mission to protect them.

Would I risk my life to save them? Sure... but I won't walk into certain death.

I've been very polite and answered your questions. Now I would like for you to answer mine.

Why would YOU sacrifice your life, the only life you will ever have, and leave all of your loved ones behind, to save a bunch of people who have never and will possibly never influence your life or the life of anyone you ever have or ever will be a part of?

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because in theory i don't think i'm more important than anyone else. in practice of course it doesn't always work out this way. but idealy i don't think that.

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Why do you want to know?

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What's it to you?

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What does it matter if we're all going to die in the end anyways?

OMG NOTHING MATTERS!!!

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No and no.

In fact, the only thing that would make me consider doing it, is if everyone would know that I chose not to. I'd have to imagine pretty much everyone alive would hate me then.

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in both examples, how do you know that you are actually saving people's lives?

In example one you die and everyone lives on without knowing about it.
In example two you die and everyone thinks you are a mass murderer.
how can you guarantee that you actually save anyones life when you die? Only when you live and others die are you sure...

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How the hell do you get stuck in this situation anyway? Some sicko just has 10 million people caged up? Then he comes up to you and he says "Alright, it's you, or them."

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How the hell do you get stuck in this situation anyway? Some sicko just has 10 million people caged up? Then he comes up to you and he says "Alright, it's you, or them."

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Then he has 1 million + 1 caged

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I don't really care about this question as it's not likely to happen to me any time soon, but I am interested in the way I would die if I went that route. Most of the ways I could die would suck, but if it could be something pleasant like a heroin overdose (which I imagine would involve bliss followed by drifting off) or if I was nailing Kate Beckinsale and then my heart exploded then yeah, it's something I might consider.

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Are you kidding? I'd be thrilled to go out this way.

Yes, yes.

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Here is the conundrum: You have the ability to save 10 miilion people by giving up your own in that pursuit. The catch is no one will ever know it. Would you do it?

The second choice is, given the same set circumstances, would you still save them if it meant giving up your own life, and going down in history as being a mass murderer and traitor?

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No, no.
Sorry, first and foremost my life revolves around me.
So, I sacrifice myself knowing that no one will ever know it? Or I go down in history as a repugnant mass murderer?
All for people I don't know?
Sorry, no. I know how heroic or whatever it must feel doing something soooo noble but no.

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WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH. I crack myself up.

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Here is the conundrum: You have the ability to save 10 miilion people by giving up your own in that pursuit. The catch is no one will ever know it. Would you do it?

The second choice is, given the same set circumstances, would you still save them if it meant giving up your own life, and going down in history as being a mass murderer and traitor?

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An honorable death known only to yourself vs. immortality in every high school and middle school child's history book.

Not that hard a choice.