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Old 10-14-2007, 09:08 PM
bunny bunny is offline
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Default Re: Going into a burning building to save a child

I dont think I would with only a 50/50 chance - impossible to know but I'd speculate there'd need to be a 90% chance of us surviving would make it worth the risk to me (but if it was only risking injury it would be much lower).

The reason I dont put the same effort into saving people half a world away is that I dont feel responsible for things I cant see. Another factor is that I dont make ethical decisions based on EV considerations, plus I think humans are irrational anyway so even if I tried to I doubt I'd calculate them "correctly".
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