Re: Going into a burning building to save a child
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Your father was a fireman and you quickly judge that by trying to rescue him you will have 50/50 chance of saving his life or both of you perishing
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I think this kind of thing is a little more distracting then simply stipulating you know your approximate odds of success. If you are going to do this you ought to be able to do better than 'your father was a fireman'. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
I'm neither putting myself in grave danger of burning to death or saving African babies. I'm ok with this.
We could do a lot of good for others with little sacrifice. Much more with large sacrifices..
To answer why some people would save the kid and not help Africans: people are inconsistent beings who do what they think will make themselves happy. They often don't consider many alternative actions, and obviously can't consider them all in most cases.
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