You're on the Titanic. Do you help other people or scramble for one of the few lifeboats (or something else)?

[SnowedIn]

What do you think you would do?

There are amazing stories from the sinking of that ship. J. Bruce Ismay, who got into a lifeboat -- and was pilloried for the rest of his life and died a recluse. John Jacob Astor who passed his pregnant, 18-year-old wife over the rail into a lifeboat. Isidor and Ida Strauss who drowned in each other's arms, choosing to stay on the ship -- together -- after having already lived a long life. Benjamin Guggenheim putting on his evening clothes and declaring to meet his fate as a gentleman.

What do you think you would do?

[Kaneki05]

Welp if people gotta die anyway time to become the infamous Titanic Mass Murderer who was said to only kill men that were left behind, his motives were unknown but some say it was more humane than letting them freeze to death in the water.
Some say it was simply taking an opportunity, some say they were a killer before they got on the boat even going as far to claim it was jack the ripper though of course this seems foolish because their Mo's are very different.
Finally many claim it was Trauma induced psychosis that came as result of impending doom.

Will we ever know the truth?

[Kaneki05]

Also the titanic film would be very different as it would take inspiration from me. And at the end a plot twist would come with Jack been the very killer.

[SnowedIn]

I have never heard any of this! Totally fascinating!

[Kaneki05]

It's not a true story, just speaking of what would become so if I was on it.
Though there was 2 killers actually on Titanic though they didn't kill on it pretty sure.

[NathanDavis]

no doubt about it...

help my people to safety first, and then help as many other as I possibly can

after that, I'll figure out how to fare myself, lol

[SnowedIn]

Man of the hour, sir. Well done.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

If it isn't "my people" who need saving, I'm going to focus more on actual survival than helping. Now, if I was born and alive during that time with different experiences, my answer would likely be different, so I'm not sure.

[SnowedIn]

Excellent perspective and wise self-awareness. Well said.

[Levin]

Don't worry princess. You're a girl, so we have to save you. I'll meet my watery grave in order to save your life.

[MendaciousMarxist]

@letuswaltzforthedead, stop being a pick me. Women are superiors to men. When you get old, Your Man is most likely going to cheat on you with someone not up to/younger than you. Women are better human beings than men, more intelligent, more resilient, more skillful, more altruistic, more peaceful, better problem solvers. im not saying men are better than women but i am saying women are better off with men.
You have a lot too learn, I was stupid at your age and then I learned. Men are only better than women at committing suicide

[MendaciousMarxist]

without*

[SnowedIn]

@MendaciousMarxist ... this escalated quickly. Your profile says you've been on GaG since... today. And you're going to jump into a thread and call one of the smarter, well spoken, savvy, people here a "pick me"? What you wrote was really well written and has a lot of merit. But did you really have to jump on @letuswaltzforthedead to say it?

[letuswaltzforthedead]

I'm honestly confused 🤔
I didn't think what I wrote would trigger this reaction. I'm not sure what a pick me is exactly but nothing that I wrote here had to do with men or women or gender. I just want to make sure I help the people I care about if the boat is sinking. Thank you tho @SnowedIn , maybe she was having a bad day or something.

[MendaciousMarxist]

if a teenager is one of the smartest person here, that says more about the site and about you who is DECADES older. She sounds stupid, I've seen her posts.

[dustybiker]

A number of those lifeboats weren’t even half full…..

I’m a helper. I would have sorted them out with a calm cool head.

[SnowedIn]

Don't get in @dustybiker way! :) And, yeah, like it's one thing to have an academic discussion about "there should have been more lifeboats" but it's egregiously appalling to not fully utilize the ones they did have.

[dustybiker]

Agreed.

[dustybiker]

Thanks for the mho.

[Visionary7]

I’d take out my phone and record of course

🙄

[Fuentes]

Everyone's freezing to their death but as long as they got in on camera it's all good lol

[Visionary7]

@Fuentes yeah gotta upload on social media before dying 😬

[SnowedIn]

@Visionary7 -- awesome answer. LOVE the picture too. This really is what folks would do these days, too.

[Visionary7]

Lol sad world we live in

[anon1903]

I'd love to play Jack's role. Tall, adventurous, cute, kind of a baddie, gentle, artistic... Sleep with Rose, win tickets, even the ending is good. All goals achieved.

[SnowedIn]

"All goals achieved" -- love this! Thanks for making me smile!

[SnowedIn]

And, frankly, Jack had great hair, so...

[anon1903]

Jack is daydream.

[SnowedIn]

My wife and I were engaged when that movie came out. She felt exactly the same way. Thankfully she chose me...

[anon1903]

My mom was pregnant with me when she went to the theatre with dad. The tickets were a gift from my uncle as "happy married life!"

[SnowedIn]

That is a sweet story. <3 We went to see it and her little sister went as our chaperone (that's a long story for another time). Little sis ended up singing "My Heart Will Go On" at least once a day from her bedroom window to the whole neighborhood! 🤣

[anon1903]

That's my song

[Dinklex3]

Uhm.. I can't swim. So I'd probably drown or be one of the people who need help.

[SnowedIn]

There's plenty of people here who will help you! :) Also, you'd be surprised how many sailors I served with in the Navy who don't know how to swim... :)

[USLegionary]

Hollow out thar big bitch Rose and paddle myself and Leo to safety.

[USLegionary]

Anyway all those names you mention like John Jacob Astor whom I assume from his last name and because he had the option of putting his wife on a lifeboat and of going himself is part of the elites, what about the poor working class bastards who were locked up below decks to drowned with their families?

[USLegionary]

Guys like Benjamin Guggenheim are spoken with reverence but of course those below decks are barley mentioned.
I'd like to think that I was in 3rd class that me and some others would kill all those privledged and entitled pussies and steal life boat.

[SnowedIn]

I appreciate this point of view (except perhaps killing the privileged). You're right, we have all the names and stories of the wealthy but so very few stories and remembered names of third class and crew.

[inhua]

I'd probably be one of those forgotten casualties

[SnowedIn]

Hope not! But, numbers wise, yeah... 😢

[Revvl]

I would help others until it became obvious that I needed to help myself.

[SnowedIn]

That's an excellent path forward.

[Revvl]

Thanks

[LemiaOfThunder]

You mean Go back in time.

• First warn them if they go full stream head they hit and iice berg
• Warn them that the rivits are dogey

[SnowedIn]

And a whole other idea I hadn't considered. Interesting. Thanks for responding!

[Rockstarrrrr]

Help some people first then get a place for me... I'm young and agile so it should be achievable...

[SnowedIn]

Yep. Well said.

[andreasderjuengere]

Bad luck for me: I'd be the Captain - or I would not be there :)

[SnowedIn]

I like this perspective. To be clear, you'd go down with your ship?

[andreasderjuengere]

I guess so. Unless everyone else is taken care of, and I see an opportunity to escape myself.
But Mr. Smith was right: better make dying quick when there's no chance for help.

[Anonymous]

It's fine to get to a lifeboat but Ismay was in charge of the company and the sinking was his fault. A bad man on all fronts.

[SnowedIn]

I read a biography of him and it's pretty fascinating. You can see a lot of behaviors pre-sinking that contributed to his decision that night. The last twenty years of his life were sad. Not advocating for pity, but it was sad.

[Alexandrubaschet08]

I think i will try to help some friends quikly and my family and finde a solution to save owerself.

If i can't get in a boath then i will try to improvizate something under my clothes from a plastic or something to keep me warm in the wather and not to go down.

If that will worck or not i will hold my family and friends telling emotionals last words and go fight death.

[Guy13]

Freeze 🥶 and try to be helpful too 🤷🏻‍♂️

[SnowedIn]

yeah, like what other option was there?

[Guy13]

Yep...

[WhitneySnow]

I help other people

[SnowedIn]

That doesn't surprise me at all! Well done!

[SmokinAces2000]

No, my priority would be my family and then myself

[SnowedIn]

Yep; I like this.

[Fuentes]

If it was my family I'd help them first

[SnowedIn]

Right?

[AngryCarl]

I'd try to get my family into a lifeboat.

[SnowedIn]

I like how you use the word "try" -- I think that's accurate.

[Anonymous]

Id help the women and kids.

[TopTier]

Loser

[SnowedIn]

@TopTier come on, man. Let's not call names.

[SnowedIn]

@asker, yep.

[Lee1515]

i wood holp

[SnowedIn]

Go you! Well said.