Poll: Is a Childs Life more Valuable then a Adults ?

[FROGGEman2]

Your grammar is horrible.

Well... I would spare the child, but neither is more valuable... Depends on OH WAIT SHIT RELATIVISM

 

[Roander]

I've never been so offended!

The title should read "an adult's" rather than "a adults", the poll question is missing the "an" before adult's altogether and, again, missing the apostrophe, you're all over the place with your capitalization, it's "deserves" rather than "deserve" in that context and then there's the "then" vs. "than" error that's already been pointed out. All things that are easy to overlook in a post but in something as official as an internet poll..I'm just shocked.

Why did you include an option to say the type of death matters but not the type of life? Who would you rather kill? An adult who's not Hitler, or a child who might grow up to be Hitler? You know.. if his parents decided to name him Hitler for some reason.

 

[jubosu]

The child, unless it's ginger.

Disclaimer: I'm joking, of course. I have lots of ginger friends and relatives and even know one hot ginger girl

Is one hot ginger enough to save the soulless minions of orthodoxy.

 

[Keepitclean]

You say no 'it depends' but you have an option in the poll which is effectively 'it depends' I would probably say the child's life unless it were disabled either mentally and/or physically. I would say say the adult's life would be more important in the circumstances that the adult is an important person.

 

[kahlzun]

If it's an average adult, the child is more precious.


if the adult is something specialised, or has had arduous training (doctor, lawyer, game developer, math teacher, public servant etc) then the adult is more valuable.

 

[SINRABIES]

the way i see it, sure you could kill the adult, but with all the protective parents in the world, how many opportunities do you think you'll get to kill a child?

 

[Fists]

no, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

 

[dark-amon]

I expected more people to say that life is equel, independent from age.
That is not my standpoint, but it seems like the more popular oppinion. Myself thinks that in the general situation where the value of life is relevant to the situation that a childs life is more valuable. Outside situations where it is relevant I think there isn't a meaning in comparing value to life.

 

[HuntrRose]

With no further knowledge of the child or adult, the child, no questions asked.

Come to think of it, the standards for these sort of thing is children, women then men. So not really much of a problem at all.

 

[Marmalade]

I would not allow myself to take a life other than mine so i would shoot myself i guess.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I don't think I could be physically capable of killing a child. At least not with a gun. If I blew up a building with children in it... maybe... but not with a gun face to face. And if it was a child and it's father/mother? I would probably kill the parent, [see the above] and do a Kill Bill thing i.e. "you can come looking for me when you're grown up, if you want revenge".

 

[Angryman101]

Well if the adult was Chuck Norris, I wouldn't need to shoot either one. Chuck would look at us and our heads would explode.





Ok for real. Both have the right to life. One isn't above the other. If I let the child live, for all I know he could get hit by a car the next day. Same could go for the adult.

Hey, bud, I don't quite get your avatar, I think it's a little too subtle for me.
Jesus, you people are dark. This is a shitty choice. Find a way to save both of them, as all life is sacred and it's not up to us to decide who should live or die.

 

[Goldeneye1989]

A child has not lived, therefore cannot expirence the pain of death from dieing by not knowing life. therefore an adult is worth more to me

 

[Axzarious]

Well if the adult was Chuck Norris, I wouldn't need to shoot either one. Chuck would look at us and our heads would explode.





Ok for real. Both have the right to life. One isn't above the other. If I let the child live, for all I know he could get hit by a car the next day. Same could go for the adult.

Hey, bud, I don't quite get your avatar, I think it's a little too subtle for me.
Jesus, you people are dark. This is a shitty choice. Find a way to save both of them, as all life is sacred and it's not up to us to decide who should live or die.

I would probably do that, but "Take a third option" is not in the peramiters for the question. Also, me being bored, tends to equal me deconstructing things. I could argue that nothing has meaning, until it is assigned meaning by something that can discern meaning, which would mean meaning is given meaning by something meaningless.... A paradox if you may.

I might think this is foolish when I wake up tomorrow, or I might not, lol. Kind of funny how ones view and opinions can change several times throught the day. Usually, its how asleep or tired I am.

 

[MattyDienhoff]

Depends on the situation and the ages of those involved, I would say.

From a purely utilitarian point of view (say, for instance, that I was managing a rescue effort of some sort and could only save a certain number of people, but I had the time and ability to choose precisely who I save), young adults with some education and useful skills are "more valuable" than infants and young children, especially in the short term, while on the other hand infants and young children could be considered to be more valuable than elderly people, because they have more life to live.

 

[Angryman101]

Well if the adult was Chuck Norris, I wouldn't need to shoot either one. Chuck would look at us and our heads would explode.





Ok for real. Both have the right to life. One isn't above the other. If I let the child live, for all I know he could get hit by a car the next day. Same could go for the adult.

Hey, bud, I don't quite get your avatar, I think it's a little too subtle for me.
Jesus, you people are dark. This is a shitty choice. Find a way to save both of them, as all life is sacred and it's not up to us to decide who should live or die.

I would probably do that, but "Take a third option" is not in the peramiters for the question. Also, me being bored, tends to equal me deconstructing things. I could argue that nothing has meaning, until it is assigned meaning by something that can discern meaning, which would mean meaning is given meaning by something meaningless.... A paradox if you may.

I might think this is foolish when I wake up tomorrow, or I might not, lol. Kind of funny how ones view and opinions can change several times throught the day. Usually, its how asleep or tired I am.

And, to me, their lives are valuable. So they've been given meaning to me.