Guys, if you had to choose between saving the life of your mother, sister, wife/girlfriend and daughter/son, who would you pick?

[emmily2396]

Suppose they are all going to fall of a cliff like in the image I showed. Their grip strength may not be good enough for you to have time to save more than 1 or 2 of them. For reference, they are pretty close to each other.

Mom first

Sister first

Wife/girlfriend first

Daughter/son first

None of them, let them die

Other

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+1 y

Actually, the kid may be able to hold for the longest because of body size. When I was little i could stay like that for much longer than I do now. Your mother would probably be the one to fall due to being the oldest.

[Zealashton]

My sister. Of course
my mom would want her to live
and I don't want to be a sigal parant that can't fiend a new wife, to love
and I don't want to save the girl firend, cus she will ethire, A cheat on me, or be dump me.
If its a wife, how long have I been with her. 13 years. Childs 13 then that means my sister would have a kid, meaning I save my kid do to respect of her loyalty
but if she's only 1 year old wife, and only been together 1 year, yaaa I drup her ass save my sister
but is she was litterly my soul mate even if its just a girlfriend or wife,
soul mate
sister
mom
that bee a hard choice,
if save mom, that means my dad won't be lonely and depressed. But could end up seprated thus mother would die 100%
now sister vs soul mate
well I don't trust my sister, if she had a boy, and cercum it, aka mgm, I would never be her bother again, she can die, all I care,
but cus I'm alive. I'm incontrol, I can reproduce, she can't really.. Thus I pick my soul mate.
But if she's not my soul mate, its always my sister. 100% sorry son, but dady can allways remake a famly. But my sister in eraplaceable

[Zealashton]

@Exorcist_Rampage I pitty your tomfoolery. You a pittiful man

[Exorcist_Rampage]

I said sister first like you. Didn't you read my answer?

[LesterJester]

Pretty close does not mean the exact same location and position.

Technically I would go for the closest person possible due to the greater chance of rescue before falling.

Though the other logical side of me may go for the lightest people first as I could be able to pull them up quicker, thus perhaps giving more time to grab hold of someone else.

Either way, my primary thought would be why the hell they were all being so stupid standing near the edge of a cliff all at the same time in the first place. Our family doesn't raise idiots.

The idiots are cast out.

[SpacedCharr]

As a bisexual only daughter with a partner? My partner.

Let my non-existent sister and child fall to their death alongside my manipulative, narcissistic mother.

Bwa ha ha hahahaha!

[jarrea01]

I think I would panic and try to save who ever is closest and pull them up as quickly as possible. And if some fall and die I'd be sad about it. But if you wanna get more deep into it. I'd saved any kids first in my family. I can't imagine my mom wanting me to save her life before her kids. And if I had kids of my own, well of course I want them to live. Between my wife/gf and my mom, 🤔 I don't know, I would think my wife/gf should be my choice because my mom would probably know how heartbroken I would be if she died and she'd want me to be happy. But at the same time, that's my mom 😢.

[NYCstreetPhotog]

Son or daughter first, they have the longest life ahead of them. Then Wife/girlfriend, since it's best to have a mother for the developement of children. Now if I still have time, my sister (if I had one), and finally my mother.

Now moralistically the younger the age, the more potential they have to benefit the world, so they should be saved first. Physically the younger the age the less weight, so it would be easier to pull them up, thus could be left last. Ultimately, both must be taken into consideration, along with the emotional implications of the situation too.

[Anonymous]

The percentages make a lot of sense. You're kind of forcing people to do a cold calculation. I think children are favored by most people because they have the longest life ahead of them, so it's mathematically the biggest save. I kind of wonder how the results would change if the wife/girlfriend were pregnant. Would an unborn child get the same value in people's calculations as an already born one?

[determination]

most dumb people would go for the kid but i value bonds more then how long someone will live i would rather save an elderly person that i know well then some dumb replaceable child

[crmoore]

Does anyone else find it ironic that the person who provided an emotional explanation is calling the person who provided a logical, deeper, and more thorough explanation dumb?

[Opinion Owner]

@determination To give a little more background, I sometimes think about these "calculations" from the perspective of self-driving cars and high-powered robotics. There are a variety of real scenarios similar to this that come up in these fields. For instance, if a car's rear radar detects that it's about to be hit hard from behind, should it turn its wheels to avoid hitting someone in the crosswalk in front of it? The answer is easy if there's only one person. But what if the choice is strike a child by turning right, strike a grown adult by turning left, or strike both by doing nothing? That's when these "what would most of society do?" questions really matter.

[Opinion Owner]

FYI, here's a wikipedia article that gives a little more detail, including the autonomous vehicle considerations (https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Trolley_problem ) of these types of "trolley problems" as they're known.

[Éire1995]

If you save your mam, she will never forgive you for letting others die. A mother would die 100 times for their child/grandchild. Save your sister she would always blame you for the mothers death. Save the wife, you will be the man that let her child die. I think you have to save the son/daughter. More of their life left to live aswell.

[emmily2396]

Wouldn't the child think like the sister though?

[jwsstein]

Yeah I would save the wife/girlfriend cause that my future the one I promise to love till death do us part unless we didn't have a good marriage then I would hope I had good life insurance on her

[EleanorRigby]

Lmfao. 😂😂😂

[crmoore]

I hate questions like these. I think I'd save my daughter/son. Not only do they have the most life to live, but at least there people would by at least happy to some extent about the outcome. The daughter/son would be grateful, I would be grateful that I still have my daughter/son, and my wife, while still likely sad about losing her life, would be happy her child gets to live on.

[crmoore]

Three people*

[Ripper_E]

My wife. Once you marry, your spouse should be the most important person in the world considering you have committed your life to them and them to you.
Would it be easy? Fuck no.

[Ripper_E]

I did not see son or daughter. I would save them.

[EleanorRigby]

Good answer.

[andreasderjuengere]

I can only approach this question 'philosophically':
I'd jump first myself. From below I try to catch who ever falls first.
(inspired by: Diogenes of Sinope)

[EverythingTheySay]

Emotional answer would be all, reasonable on the other hand the strongest as it's going to be needed after so many family members dies...

[RSan90]

Obviously my daughter and son... saving them would make the mother and the grandmother happy, at least in a perfect world.

[jgokgotit]

Daughter/son first. I don't have siblings. Mom would chew my head off for not protecting a child and wife would probably do the same

[Chris_93]

The wife. I am allowed selfishness. The biggest part of my life would be the part I'd hold onto the tightest. And as my wife, she would understand that.

[Exorcist_Rampage]

I've save my sister first. Daughter second. Wife third. Mother fourth.

A good way to remember the order is suck dick with mouth. The s, d, w, m combo with sister, daughter, wife, mother is equal to that.

[billyboy37]

1- daughter/daughters
2-my sons
3-girl.. who may also ve first

[Exorcist_Rampage]

Why daughter before son? What makes female life good and male life evil?

[billyboy37]

if that moment ever comes, im ready for it, u aparemtly are not and may lose both, woman and children get behind the men u dam fool. we die first. idc what any of them say.

[Exorcist_Rampage]

Oh, so you'd save your 16 year old daughter before you'd save your 3 year old son. I get it. You're sexist.

I am not a fool just because I'm not sexist. Women are not more important than men are. We are equally important.

By the way, the Yankees are terrible. They ain't won a ring in 10 years. The Red Sox have won 2 since they last won one.

[billyboy37]

16yr old daughter and 3 yr old son?3 yr old son would be saved first and i did not have to think about it

[billyboy37]

and i hate baseball by the way. i have never played or watched a boringball i mean baseball game in my life.

[Exorcist_Rampage]

Then why are you wearing a New York Yankees cap?

[Exorcist_Rampage]

You don't like the sport, yet wear its clothes or gear.

[soleil2666]

THAT is what all women want to know and ACTUALLY think about.
In real life, wife or a child would be equally hard as choices (so both). The rest don't count one bit.

[Liam_Hayden]

My mom, but I have neither a wife nor girlfriend currently and I can't have kids, so this is easy. My mom, though, would let herself fall so that I would save a random stranger instead.

[LaVillaStrangiato]

All of the others would be happy that I save my daughter.

[LegLovingCD]

I’m a dad. Once I became a dad the lives of my children are the most valuable thing on earth. All die including myself, before my kids

[Black_Dynamite77]

daughter/son. Because you love your child more than anyone and everyone else has lived their life and the kids deserve theu chance more.

[MysteriousDarkness]

Your life is until you die. They all lived a part of their life. How much of it would depend on their age and when they would die which for the most part is unknown.

[Black_Dynamite77]

@MysteriousDarkness you missed the point

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Sorry but my wife is the only one who can make a new generation with me. Saving the kid would make them feel awkward if i get a new wife and i've been with my mom and my sister for quite a long time.