Who Would You Save?

[Satans_Serrated_Edge]

Suppose two people were trapped in a building on fire, and you could rescue only one of them. Further suppose that one of the those people enthusiastically shared your views on religion, while the other person was contemptuous of your views on religion. Given a choice, would you be more inclined to save the person who enthusiastically shared your views than the person who was contemptuous of your views? Why or why not?

BONUS QUESTION: Suppose you had the choice to save both. Would there be any circumstances in which you refused to save one or the other? If so, which one would you refuse to save? Why?

Unless either of those people are friends or family, I probably wouldn't run into a burning building at all. Something as trivial as what superstitions one or the other might hold really wouldn't even factor in.

 

[YmirGF]

Suppose two people were trapped in a building on fire, and you could rescue only one of them. Further suppose that one of the those people enthusiastically shared your views on religion, while the other person was contemptuous of your views on religion. Given a choice, would you be more inclined to save the person who enthusiastically shared your views than the person who was contemptuous of your views? Why or why not?

BONUS QUESTION: Suppose you had the choice to save both. Would there be any circumstances in which you refused to save one or the other? If so, which one would you refuse to save? Why?

Being a pragmatic realist, I'd simply go in and get the first person I encountered. No heroics. If I could save both, I would do so. I love confrontation and am immensely amused by views in opposition to my own as I get more mileage out of such discussions.

 

[Revoltingest]

Being a pragmatic realist, I'd simply go in and get the first person I encountered. No heroics. If I could save both, I would do so. I love confrontation and am immensely amused by views in opposition to my own as I get more mileage out of such discussions.

I prefer the George Costanza approach....

 

[YmirGF]

I prefer the George Costanza approach....

Sadly, I'm one of the 4 people on the planet that hated Seinfeld.

 

[Revoltingest]

Sadly, I'm one of the 4 people on the planet that hated Seinfeld.

The characters were supposed to be hateful.
I liked the series finale which really brought
home what terrible people they were.
Don't like Curb Your Enthusiasm either?

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Suppose two people were trapped in a building on fire, and you could rescue only one of them. Further suppose that one of the those people enthusiastically shared your views on religion, while the other person was contemptuous of your views on religion. Given a choice, would you be more inclined to save the person who enthusiastically shared your views than the person who was contemptuous of your views? Why or why not?

BONUS QUESTION: Suppose you had the choice to save both. Would there be any circumstances in which you refused to save one or the other? If so, which one would you refuse to save? Why?

This is one of those poll questions that begs for an "All else being equal" prefix, so ...

• All else being equal I would save the person who shared my views.
• If at all possible I would save both.

 

[YmirGF]

The characters were supposed to be hateful.
I liked the series finale which really brought
home what terrible people they were.
Don't like Curb Your Enthusiasm either?

I did like it for the first few episodes then I got tired of watching Larry David go into meltdown. Too predictable.

 

[djhwoodwerks]

Sadly, I'm one of the 4 people on the planet that hated Seinfeld.

I'm the second of the 4 people that hated Seinfeld!

 

[Revoltingest]

I did like it for the first few episodes then I got tired of watching Larry David go into meltdown. Too predictable.

It has its moments, but it's no Seinfeld.

 

[Perditus]

Who Would You Save?

My cat.

 

[djhwoodwerks]

Suppose two people were trapped in a building on fire, and you could rescue only one of them. Further suppose that one of the those people enthusiastically shared your views on religion, while the other person was contemptuous of your views on religion. Given a choice, would you be more inclined to save the person who enthusiastically shared your views than the person who was contemptuous of your views? Why or why not?

BONUS QUESTION: Suppose you had the choice to save both. Would there be any circumstances in which you refused to save one or the other? If so, which one would you refuse to save? Why?

Am I the only one that sees this question is asking which of the two people, you know personally, would you save? It's worded as if to say the people are strangers, "suppose two people", but then describes the people in a way that you would only know if you knew them personally. Unless of course, it means you would take the time in the burning building to ask these people what their religious beliefs are.

Hey Joe, remember the Christmas party? I'm taking Jim because you're a jerk!

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Sadly, I'm one of the 4 people on the planet that hated Seinfeld.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...!

Seriously, why would it be sad? I'm quite happy that I didn't like 90 percent of the couple hours I saw. Same with Friends. And a lot of other shows...

 

[YmirGF]

Not that there's anything wrong with that...!

Seriously, why would it be sad? I'm quite happy that I didn't like 90 percent of the couple hours I saw. Same with Friends. And a lot of other shows...

That's what began my avoidance of network TV about 15 years ago... that and an over-consumption of CNN.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

I'd just use my Chuck Norris skills and put the fire out with my fists of fury.

Chuck would probably just wee on the fire.

 

[dust1n]

Suppose two people were trapped in a building on fire, and you could rescue only one of them. Further suppose that one of the those people enthusiastically shared your views on religion, while the other person was contemptuous of your views on religion. Given a choice, would you be more inclined to save the person who enthusiastically shared your views than the person who was contemptuous of your views? Why or why not?

BONUS QUESTION: Suppose you had the choice to save both. Would there be any circumstances in which you refused to save one or the other? If so, which one would you refuse to save? Why?

You didn't put neither as an answer?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Suppose two people were trapped in a building on fire, and you could rescue only one of them. Further suppose that one of the those people enthusiastically shared your views on religion, while the other person was contemptuous of your views on religion. Given a choice, would you be more inclined to save the person who enthusiastically shared your views than the person who was contemptuous of your views? Why or why not?

BONUS QUESTION: Suppose you had the choice to save both. Would there be any circumstances in which you refused to save one or the other? If so, which one would you refuse to save? Why?

Everything else being equal, I will always save someone I love and value over someone I do not - as an extension of this, I will always save someone I like, or have a connection with, over someone I do not. With no other information, I would have an inherent bias in saving a rationally-skeptical-minded person over a superstition-minded person.

 

[oldbadger]

It might depend why a gorgeous young lady was standing next to you in fire, and whether your fire hose was on display.

Well, if I saw you standing there, screaming and hollering out in that burning building beside a gorgeous sweet young maiden, I would rush in, tell her that I would be right back, chuck you over my shoulder in fireman's lift and get you out first.
Oh yes I would! Certainly! No doubt about it.

But do you believe me?

 

[oldbadger]

Everything else being equal, I will always save someone I love and value over someone I do not - as an extension of this, I will always save someone I like, or have a connection with, over someone I do not. With no other information, I would have an inherent bias in saving a rationally-skeptical-minded person over a superstition-minded person.

So there's me, beside some equally old and ugly stranger in that burning inferno, when suddenly there you are, the hooded Kilgore, arms akimbo. And just when I think that I might have a chance you're handing out a questionnaire to both of us to fill in.

 

[psychoslice]

If you were someone who believed in god, then wouldn't you want to save the one who doesn't, for the one who believes what you believe would already be saved, didn't your Jesus come to save those who to your belief were sinners ?.

 

[Twilight Hue]

If ask if they wanted me to help save them or have God save them.

I'd be very happy to oblige their wishes best as I can.