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Would you give your life for someone else eg girlfriend, wife, friend etc or how many people would you need to save to give your life for. Would you be to scared to die or selfish. Please be honest
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johnnyfive said:You wouldn't really know until your in that situation.
Willis said:Would you give your life for someone else eg girlfriend, wife, friend etc or how many people would you need to save to give your life for. Would you be to scared to die or selfish. Please be honest
tbz_ck said:For general kids in danger, yes.
Willis said:Very true i just think that 99% of people say they would but if it came down to the real thing then i dont think most people would. Lets say you had a week to think about it you would have a real internal battle going on in your head and heart.
jackgnic said:I think we'd all feel totally different if we actually got into that situation.
It also depends on the situation - sometimes our natural instincts to survive could, and do, get in the way of rational reason...
For example - it might sound daft and this isn't the best example... If you're in the jungle alone with just your partner or whatever, and a lion has approached you and is about to eat you alive, natural instinct might seriously make you - unconsciously, to a certain extent - throw your partner to the lion as a defence mechanism.
Sounds totally daft but it seriously happens - the body takes over sometimes and your decision making is totally knocked out by the body's instinct to survive.
jackgnic said:I think we'd all feel totally different if we actually got into that situation.
It also depends on the situation - sometimes our natural instincts to survive could, and do, get in the way of rational reason...
For example - it might sound daft and this isn't the best example... If you're in the jungle alone with just your partner or whatever, and a lion has approached you and is about to eat you alive, natural instinct might seriously make you - unconsciously, to a certain extent - throw your partner to the lion as a defence mechanism.
Sounds totally daft but it seriously happens - the body takes over sometimes and your decision making is totally knocked out by the body's instinct to survive.
MookJong said:If the decision is yours you would have to be incredibly selfish to let the other person die.
No I wouldn't; I would be selfish.Willis said:Would you give your life for someone else eg girlfriend, wife, friend etc or how many people would you need to save to give your life for. Would you be to scared to die or selfish. Please be honest
Kronologic said:my son without a doubt
I'd probably try to help anyone else in peril if I could I certainly would not sit back and watch if I could be helping.
[TW]Fox said:I think you underestimate the effect death would have on your life. It's not quite the same decision as letting somebody more needy go in the queue in front of you at the shop.
It's the end. Thats it. Finito, Nothing more. IMHO anyone who says they would give up their life so that somebody else who is not their wife (No, not girlfriend you've been seeing 6 months) or child is lying. Or if they are not deliberately lying they've not properly thought it through and would never do it.
What would be the sense in putting yourself in the position of somebody who is going to die so that they may live? Net result to the world is unchanged - one person dies.
This is the way Spock would look at the situation, there is no emotional content or passion to that, only cold logic. It is as if the other person was a total stranger, in that situation of course I would not give my life. But for somone you are in love with it is a different story, you would want them to live more than you would worry about yourself.[TW]Fox said:What would be the sense in putting yourself in the position of somebody who is going to die so that they may live? Net result to the world is unchanged - one person dies.