Poll: Your own life - Or ten strangers lifes?

[FallenRainbows]

Them, no second thoughts, my death is more of a loss to those I love than their deaths.
However should it be that you put one person I love in that room, then me. No second thoughts.

 

[DanielDeFig]

It's impossible to value one life differently from another, so numerically i'd be better if more people (who are worth the same) survive.

Therefore, ideologically i would rather die myself. Practically? I'm not sure if my body is wired in a way that allows me to follow through with that action.


Then again, ethically i would be doing nothing wrong if i refused to participate, even if that resulted in someone else killing the ten men. It would be someone else's action causing their death, someone else's choice. I would ethically be in the right.

Other people on this thread have also suggested looking for ways to escape, or communicate with the ten men. Hypothetical situations like this need to be set up in a more "foolproof" manner, or else poeple answer with further hypotheticals: "what if we know sign language?", "what if our combined strength can break the glass?", "what if we can figure out a way to escape?".

Either come up with something more foolproof, or something that's actually realistic.

 

[Digitman]

is their an option to burn them individually?

 

[Kinguendo]

Hooray hypocrisy!

Heres an idea: Learn the definition of a word before you use it.

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

Hooray hypocrisy!

Heres an idea: Learn the definition of a word before you use it.

Don't be bitter; you were being a hypocrite...

You complained about someone doing something and then did that exact thing immediately after... That, my friend, is hypocrisy at it's finest.

I dunno, maybe you have a different edition of Webster's than I do. I'm using the 1998 10th Edition; it doesn't even have "Google" or "webisode" in it. 0_o

 

[danintexas]

Me vs 10

The 10 will live

 

[Mista Miggins]

I would probaly kill them.

Mainly 'cos the guy setting this up would probably screw me over by having them all get hit by a truck shortly after me picking the suicide button.

Or mabye he will have me fall in a pit of hydrochloric acid.

Tough choice.

 

[Kinguendo]

Don't be bitter; you were being a hypocrite...

You complained about someone doing something and then did that exact thing immediately after... That, my friend, is hypocrisy at it's finest.

I dunno, maybe you have a different edition of Webster's than I do. I'm using the 1998 10th Edition; it doesn't even have "Google" or "webisode" in it. 0_o

Wow, you are an arrogant douche... fantastic. Clearly cant accept that you are wrong, what I was talking about was him running his mouth as though no one else had been seriously injured before and that having that happen somehow gives him the right to talk down to everyone. Neither of which I did.

 

[Jack Macaque]

Can't say I'd let 10 other people die for my own life, I'd go when I was ready.

I mean, if it was 10 people, what if those 10 people were the most precious and important people in your life, what would you even have to live for after?

 

[lacktheknack]

EDIT: Let's see how many "selfless" liars and/or naive people we have.

Eh? I'd sooner die painlessly than kill ten people horribly. Don't be cynical.

Just because you haven't come to terms with death and are incredibly selfish doesn't mean everyone else is the same.

Yeah. I'm a total scumbag. We should burn me to death.

I hope you're not implying I said or meant that, because I didn't.

 

[sageoftruth]

Really depends on the context. Depends on the strangers, depends on whether I have to make the decision right in front of them, and depends on whether my family is still alive.

 

[C95J]

who cares about the strangers, kill them. In my eyes my own life is more important.

 

[imnot]

Call chuck Norris on speeddial.
Seriously I dont know.

 

[LiudvikasT]

Kill the strangers, obviously. Even if every single human would be behind the glass, I would still save myself (and then reproduce via mitosis).

 

[Brandon237]

I would save myself, and feel borderline suicidal afterwards, but I couldn't kill myself, not now that my life is really good. I just couldn't.

 

[Jamieson 90]

Kill the strangers and I would not feel bad either, The human will to survive is very very strong. There will be people here who take the moral highground and say what I just said was terrible.

The fact is this unless you have ever had a near death experience which I have, then you don't know how strong the will to survive is, you will literally do anything. Sure in your cosy warm house safely behind yuor computer you might like to think you would do the 'good thing' but when the adrenaline is pumping through your veins you will do anything to survive.

Hey, you experienced a near death situation... arent you special? Oh wait no you arent, but you are running your mouth as though you are. I've been stabbed, starved, hit by a car and had my chest crushed... and I can say without a doubt that I couldnt inflict what I have experienced on another. Truely experiencing such things and then inflicting the same on others makes you a monster, especially when you can go painlessly.

Everyone experiences death, lording it over the young and people lucky enough to have avoided it doesnt exactly give a good view of your character.

Congradulations you took the moral highground as I knew somebody would. The point is this, i did not plan to do what the OP said, he just said as a matter of circumstances I had to make the moral decision. In those cirumstances I know I could make that decision and not feel bad about it. Its simple, live or die, kill or be killed. Soldiers make that decision every day and they have training, you know why because its either they shoot the enemy or the enemy shoots them. You say I' am a monster, perhaps i just recognise what Humans are when you take away law and order, We have been murdering and killing each other for thousands of years, what makes you think we are any different now?

 

[oldskoolandi]

Option 1. Ten more bodies matter not a jot to me.

 

[Kinguendo]

Congradulations you took the moral highground as I knew somebody would. The point is this, i did not plan to do what the OP said, he just said as a matter of circumstances I had to make the moral decision. In those cirumstances I know I could make that decision and not feel bad about it. Its simple, live or die, kill or be killed. Soldiers make that decision every day and they have training, you know why because its either they shoot the enemy or the enemy shoots them. You say I' am a monster, perhaps i just recognise what Humans are when you take away law and order, We have been murdering and killing each other for thousands of years, what makes you think we are any different now?

Simple, because I am different and I am not unique.

 

[Carlston]

Hit the fire button and yell

STRANGER DANGER!

Then blame whom ever put me in the situation and become a crime fighter with a dark mysterious past...

 

[th3xile]

Myself. Those parameters make it no question for me. I would still do it if it was only one person and they got a humane death. It's not that I don't value my own life, but thats just what I would do. I would do anything to save someone's life.