Poll: WHIRLPOOL: A Baby, Pregnant Lady And Your Boy/Girlfriend Are Drowning. Which One Do You Save?

[DrownedAmmet]

I WANT to say the baby; but in all honesty the betrayal in my wife's eyes as she got submerged below the surface would haunt me to my dying day. So, I'm going to save her.

Dude, think of how she would feel knowing you sacrificed a baby for her to live. Could your relationship handle that pressure?
(Note, I meant "dude" in the non gendered colloquial way, I'm not assuming you are a dude)

Correct assumption on the dude ;-)
Actually I know my wife and to her familial loyalty is paramount (which I understand but don't necessarily agree with) so as much as she'd have guilt over me letting it die I think she'd be o.k with it in the long run. If anything it would eat away at me over time.

Okay but picture this. A month after the whirlpool incedent, things are starting to get back to normal, and you have one of those little fights couples have, about dishes or who bought the wrong pizza rolls or what have you. And you mutter under your breath "I should have saved that fuckin baby"
And she hears you and says "Maybe you should have! I never asked you to save me!"

Might be easier just to save the damn baby in the first place

 

[Scarim Coral]

It's a lose lose situation for me

Saving the pregnant lady/ baby
I will be wrap with guilt for not saving the love of my life (this is assuming I was serious with her and I was very happy with her).

Saving my girlfriend
Both me and my gf will be feeling guilty (well for her survivor guilt) and I expect her to react angry toward me for sacrifacing the pregnant lady and baby. If the role is reverse, it would feel uncomfortable about it (survivor guilt).

You know what, if this happened to me, I will asked my girlfriend if she wanted to be saved first or go for the pregnant girl first. I can at least used that as an excuse if she argue on me for saving her first.

 

[kiri3tsubasa]

I would save my girlfriend, as the others are strangers I have no emotional connection to them. So I will not lose any sleep over it.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I would save my girlfriend, as the others are strangers I have no emotional connection to them. So I will not lose any sleep over it.

Pretty much this, but I wouldn?t go so far as to say I wouldn?t lose sleep. I think witnessing anyone, even a stranger, dying right before your eyes with the added bonus of knowing you actively let them die might merit at LEAST a hint of restlessness for a night or two?

 

[kiri3tsubasa]

I would save my girlfriend, as the others are strangers I have no emotional connection to them. So I will not lose any sleep over it.

Pretty much this, but I wouldn?t go so far as to say I wouldn?t lose sleep. I think witnessing anyone, even a stranger, dying right before your eyes with the added bonus of knowing you actively let them die might merit at LEAST a hint of restlessness for a night or two?

I've seen people die in front of me and have seen an autopsy being performed. Perhaps that has jaded me to death and other such stuff.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I would save my girlfriend, as the others are strangers I have no emotional connection to them. So I will not lose any sleep over it.

Pretty much this, but I wouldn?t go so far as to say I wouldn?t lose sleep. I think witnessing anyone, even a stranger, dying right before your eyes with the added bonus of knowing you actively let them die might merit at LEAST a hint of restlessness for a night or two?

I've seen people die in front of me and have seen an autopsy being performed. Perhaps that has jaded me to death and other such stuff.

SO many question, none of which I'll ask.

 

[kiri3tsubasa]

I would save my girlfriend, as the others are strangers I have no emotional connection to them. So I will not lose any sleep over it.

Pretty much this, but I wouldn?t go so far as to say I wouldn?t lose sleep. I think witnessing anyone, even a stranger, dying right before your eyes with the added bonus of knowing you actively let them die might merit at LEAST a hint of restlessness for a night or two?

I've seen people die in front of me and have seen an autopsy being performed. Perhaps that has jaded me to death and other such stuff.

SO many question, none of which I'll ask.

I will answer anyway with a simple answer. I worked in a hospital.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I would save my girlfriend, as the others are strangers I have no emotional connection to them. So I will not lose any sleep over it.

Pretty much this, but I wouldn?t go so far as to say I wouldn?t lose sleep. I think witnessing anyone, even a stranger, dying right before your eyes with the added bonus of knowing you actively let them die might merit at LEAST a hint of restlessness for a night or two?

I've seen people die in front of me and have seen an autopsy being performed. Perhaps that has jaded me to death and other such stuff.

SO many question, none of which I'll ask.

I will answer anyway with a simple answer. I worked in a hospital.

That makes better sense; my mind went to a much darker place. Sign of the times, I guess.

 

[iwinatlife]

Save Girlfriend no question because I clearly dont know the other people.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

I drain the swampwhirlpool.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I'll jump in with for a moral support, assisted suicide. They do say drowning is the most pleasant way to go, so might as well share the opportunity. Plus they can use my corpse to cling desperately to life if it retains buoyancy after death. The pregnant lady and my sig-other could use the other baby for sustenance, or my corpse if they're not picky. Does the whirlpool calm and fade after a while? I am assuming that. Are there eternally twirling whirlpools? I don't have the time to test these things.

 

[Qizx]

Save my Girlfriend without even an ounce of hesitation. I'm not going to let her die for some random other woman, or some random baby.

My gut says baby. Pregnant lady's baby might not make it, especially after going through the ordeal of almost drowning. My hypothetical significant other should be able to save herself.
So my plan would be save the baby, feel sorry for the preggers lady, and blame my significant other's death on their shitty swimming ability

Not sure if anyone with your name has any right to call someone a shitty swimmer...

 

[Xprimentyl]

I'm curious how the baby is getting more votes than the pregnant woman? You're choosing to save one baby over a baby and the mother; if you're already condemning your significant other, at least get the biggest bang for your selfless buck.

 

[the December King]

I thought this just came up in the Wild West?

It doesn't matter, I still choose the rattlesnake.

 

[CaitSeith]

The baby. I'm not strong enough to pull an adult out of the water...

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I save none of them.

Chances are if I try to save any of them the rest will be so terrified of drowning that they'll all grab onto me and pull me under with them in an attempt to save themselves.

Easier to wash my hands of the whole thing and just go save a dog from the pound.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

The baby and the stranger carrying it die.

Babies don't have a soul until a few months after their birth. They're pieces of meat who aren't gonna remember anything anyway.

I'm kidding. I don't believe in that spiritual crap. But a creature with no long-term memories has no value. Memories are everything that we are. You can't compare two lives based on potential, meaning what the unborn baby will be in the future. It's like being given the choice of formatting either a blank hard drive or a hard drive with terabytes and terabytes of valuable data.

That they have no way of communicating what they know doesn't mean they don't know it. [https://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&q=fetus+memory&gws_rd=ssl#q=fetal+memory]

Fine, a hard drive with a few MB of data versus an older hard drive with TB and TB of data. It's potential versus knowledge accumulated in a lifetime. I find it strange how severe the sentences are for killing newborn babies.

That baby has the potential to do great things...or be the next Charles Manson.

Potential also means potential to be a shitty person. It's a coin toss really, so should the life of a good person be lost on the possibility of saving someone who may or may not grow up to be better than that person?

Really the equation in my head kind of just puts the baby in the exact middle of the spectrum between good and evil (or rather useful to society and useless to society) and goes from there. Will save baby over drug dealer, will not save baby over doctor.