Poll: MORAL CHOICE TIME... WOOHOO!

[supagama]

right, well, it all starts simple enough. you are with a SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE team consisting of
1 scientist
1 hot girl/guy/thing (im not judging)
1 alien
1 minority (note: im not racist, this is just for the choice)
1 robot
you

The situation:

You are on a mission to a distant planet. The foliage contains the cure for the disease that will wipe out humanity. However, the air will kill anyone before they can make it back to the ship, the robot will rust. But, they can survive long enough to deliver the foliage to your ship. What do you do?

EDIT: also, the robot is a self aware, claptrap-y sort of thing, he cant be copied or replaced. also, he knows the navigation home better than anyone else, the air is acid like, and you must send someone out or leave

 

[delet]

If I'm in charge, whoever I hate the most/is the most annoying. Otherwise, the robot.

 

[GrimTuesday]

Your poll is broken and I have no idea what you are asking us to decide on.

Edit: never mind just didn't read close enough

I would send the the robot out so it can bring the foliage closer to the ship before it rusts and the send one of the other people to get it from the robot. That why no one dies because they won't be exposed to the air of the planet for nearly as long.

 

[CitySquirrel]

why can't the "minority" instead be "random person who no special skills"... I ask because you have that minority defined only as minority (therefore can't be scientist, hot, etc.). I would suggest that, while maybe not racist, you seem to already have placed a racial assumption in this.

 

[Infinatex]

The robot, because the robot is a robot. Isn't that what machines are for?

 

[Omikron009]

Whoever I dislike the most goes out. I guarantee it won't be the robot.

 

[JoJo]

I'm assuming unless informed otherwise that the robot is not intelligent and therefore there is no moral problems in sending it out to rust.

 

[Lilani]

If we're already in space, shouldn't we have space suits that solve the "toxic air" problem...? I mean surely if the suits can protect you from the vacuum of space they can protect you from a bit of toxic air. Also, if we've got robots that sophisticated, surely we wouldn't make them out of a material that can rust, right?

But since I just know you're going to reply to this with some lame excuse like "Oh, but all of your suits are busted, and the robot is just a prototype that doesn't work well!" I'd choose the robot. I mean, it's a robot. No real loss of life there.

 

[shadow741]

The robot because I'm not an asshole or a complete retard.

 

[Mcupobob]

This isn't a moral choice. I have a soulless expendable robot, he can do all the dirty work. It will be hard not having him around to deliver me Margarette's while flying through space, but the one of the other ship mates can handle that duty in till we by another robot.

 

[El Dingo]

Where's the moral choice in this? Send the non-living machine that is designed to do jobs not fit for humans or sacrifice someone elses life needlessly? It's like having a potential bomb in front of the courthouse and telling the cops "Okay, you can disarm this bomb yourself, or send the robot."

 

[KarumaK]

As written the minority, because everyone else is useful and I myself can cover the minority issue.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

Is the robot self-aware? If not the robot is the obvious choice.

If it is, the one least useful to the mission is the one to go, probably the Token Minority Guy, or the Token Eyecandy. Why any of these was sent on the mission to begin with is a mystery to me.

 

[Dastardly]

Robot. Who else?

 

[Disaster Button]

Are all these people forgetting that robots (and awesome EMH programs) have rights too?

I'd choose myself because so I'm not forcing anyone else to risk their lives.

 

[Para199x]

why can't the "minority" instead be "random person who no special skills"... I ask because you have that minority defined only as minority (therefore can't be scientist, hot, etc.). I would suggest that, while maybe not racist, you seem to already have placed a racial assumption in this.

You read way too much into that, it is more likely that you have the occasional racist thought, and in your guilt have decided (maybe subconsciously) that you have to check that everything mentioning race in any form what so ever isn't even tangibly, indirectly, infinitesimally minutely racist in any way, shape or form.