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    You don't know what they could accomplish, don't try to look at this from the perspective of hindsight or try to think about forresight.

    There you are, with this choice. A child or a man, and all you know about them is what they have done thus far, which is relative good and how long they have to live should you save them.

    If you want a situation, lets say they both have a terminal disease and you only have enough medicine to save one. They are in a coma so you can't learn anything about them personally.

    What if that child grows up to create a cure for cancer? Or ends world hunger? Or is the next greatest thinker and can take the human race to other solar systems?
    What if the Man does the same?

    The question to me isn't who do I think is most deserving, the question to me would simply be who could I get to the quickest.
    Both the same.

    I would say to save the child. The old man may be wise, but if he is already 100, than he would have already out lived his youth, no? So he has already seen 100 years of life, grown up, and seen the world. If you didn't save the 5 year old child, you would be denying him a chance to see and learn. Also, children have an innocence that no adult has.
    An innocence? I have seen no innocence. They throw tantrums when they don't have their way, they gleefully abuse their peers, they are selfish, ignorant and cruel.

    In short, it is a tossup, and too many factors (such as who they are... personality wise) are left unaccounted for.
    Lets say you don't know.
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    Um.....this one is so easy and you all are making it so complex. It isn't about the value of the life. In fact, in a life or death situation I doubt you would be in a position to ascertain their health, mental stability, future value to society, etc. However, I do know one thing:

    A man who has lived to 100 years old is a grown adult. In 100 years, I would assume he's learned a few things like how to swim, how to duck when someone is shooting, how to stop drop and roll, etc. A 5 year old child has not got so many years of survival experience.

    If you save the child, the man probably has a fairly solid chance of saving himself. If you save the man, you may well be condemning the child to certain death. So, do you save one for sure and possibly two? Or one for sure and probably not the second no matter what? I save the child and hope the guy can swim (or whatever it is he must do to survive.)

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    Foxy, you're changing the situation. You get to pick one. We assume the other one just...dies. Right then and there. Or is shot in the heart a few moments later. Or is injected with an incurable disease that cannot be cured before the individual dies a painful and gruesome death 1 year later.

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    I'd have to agree with foxy, to me just because the "old" man has a lot more life to live and is in physically good shape, doesn't mean he should be able to live. He's lived 100 years of life, which is far more than the child has lived.

    Quote Originally Posted by Humility View Post
    What if the Man does the same?
    If he's lived 100 years of life and hasn't done something extraordinary or found a cure to cancer yet... the chances of him doing it later on are slim. He's lived 100 years and we know for fact he hasn't done a thing except be normal, the child on the other hand will not even get a chance to show the world what he can do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gottibabe1 View Post
    I'd have to agree with foxy
    Hey now I said the exact same thing in one sentence instead of three paragraphs, so why can't you agree with daddy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nesterus View Post
    Hey now I said the exact same thing in one sentence instead of three paragraphs, so why can't you agree with daddy?
    She made me do it...

    >.>

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    i would save the man he has morej
    The man could help alot

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    oh and yea we can learn why he lives so long and maybe we will too

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    What if the man was pregnant?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rasterbee View Post
    What if the man was pregnant?
    Hmm... good call... thats a tough one... we can either save the child knowing we saved 1 life for sure... or... we can save the man WITH a baby one the way but we don't know if he'll mis-carry or even baby and him will die during labor.


    But seeing as that would be a bit rare... I think I would save the man if he was pregnant

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