What Would You Do - Tough Question

[gforce75]

This question has come from a book that I once read and I modified it over time, but it was very intresting to ask this because of all the views it brings... pro life, pro choice, selfless scrafice, and much more. Anyways here is the scenrio.

Your a rich banker who has struck a deal to make over 10 million dollars. Your currently walking down a street and you notice a fire blazing in an apartment around the corner. Firefighters are not there yet and no one is around.

The delima your facing is that you have to make this meeting. If you chose not to go and save several lives, you will go bankrupt and lose ur assets on the deal. The investors are not a patient group of people.

----------IF YOU CHOSE NO---------------------------------------

You strike a wonderful deal and now you have 10 million dollars in your account. The end.


-----------IF YOU CHOSE YES TO GOTO THE APT--------------

Great now you lost all of your money and you know ur bankrupt. Maybe you can write book... whatever... now time to face the problem.

If you choose to go to the apartment, your faced with a new problem.

There are four rooms and the entire complex is apartment is about to collapse. There are four rooms each on a different floor total. In each room is what's described below.

Floor 1 - 250 Senior Citizens ranging from 75-110 years of age
Floor 2 - 25 Teenagers who just turned 18 and have not started college nor their adulthood
Floor 3 - 8 Pregeant Mothers who are on their 8th month and will deliever in a few days.
Floor 4 - 2 Babies who are about 6 months old alone.

Now, because of time, you can only choose to save ONLY ONE FLOOR. What floor would you save? Or you can peform the ultimate scarfice and save two floors, but you die in the process.

-----------------SUMMARY-------------

What would you do in mist of all this choas. Who would you save? Would choose the money knowingly know that you could of saved many lives? Would you scarfice yours? Do the mothers count more to save? Or the number of all the lives of all the senior citizens? What about the children who are already born?

Good luck with answering this question.

[Sorax3]

Easy go 2 the apt and save floor3 The seinor citizens are gonna die anyway, and then you would save more people for then ud save 16 people at the least.

[gforce75]

Me I would go with number 2. Reason for that is that I don't remember anything before I was 3, so to me, the unborn babies are alive, but not fully into existance yet. Plus for me, being 18 is when life really starts as a different challenge (unless ur super spoiled and got parents to spoon that person all day).

[Hoenheim]

I'd save three and four.

[TheMuffinMan]

I'd go to my meeting, probably call 911 on my cell-phone and tell them the address

[♥]

Originally Posted by TheMuffinMan

I'd go to my meeting, probably call 911 on my cell-phone and tell them the address

/thread.

That's the beauty of modern technology, along with that, running into a building on fire would be death because people don't know what to do. Firefighters do, and they have the equipment to deal with blockages in case parts of the building collapse.

[TheMuffinMan]

And the hell if 300-something people need me to burst in to the building just to remind them that they need to get the hell out because it's on fire. If I were in there I'd just be like "No shit" and get myself out, how is 1 random business exec going to change the course of what 300 people are doing? As if they weren't aware that they should probably not burn to death, me going in there isn't going to change anything if they can't do that for themselves

Also, it's 10 million dollars, hell yeah.

[gforce75]

Lol, point is you can't use ur cellphone. You go there or don't

[TheMuffinMan]

If I'm a rich business executive, I would have a Cell Phone

[Darkly Aesthetic]

I asked my gf this question today. She said she'd save the 25 teenagers and the pregnant chicks.

but she's a woman so..


I'd save the pregnant ladies.
but holy sh*t 250 old people.
that's a massacre.

Make this question better, and say that instead of him being a succesful business man, he's poor and he's got a family and he need's the money.

[TheMuffinMan]

Hell, if I already had 10 million dollars, and it was simply an opportunity to make another 10 million dollars, I'd still go to my meeting

[Hollow Bastion]

I'd realize that by me going into the building, I'm adding to the problem that the firefighters will face. Ya don't run into a burning building trying to be a hero, when you will simply need rescuing yourself later on.

Plus, if the people in there can't get outside for whatever reason, what's the chance that I could get to them? Just call up 911 or let the (more than likely) many spectators do the obvious thing and call 911, and let the pros do the rescuing.

[Wallflower]

Originally Posted by Sparkle Motion

/thread.

That's the beauty of modern technology, along with that, running into a building on fire would be death because people don't know what to do. Firefighters do, and they have the equipment to deal with blockages in case parts of the building collapse.

massive quoting for truth.

I would go ahead and make the 10 million dollars. Let the firefighters do their job. The burden of saving innocent citizens falls on them.

[violent_anger]

If I'm a rich banker...Why am I walking?

[CAB_IV]

Originally Posted by violent_anger

If I'm a rich banker...Why am I walking?

Excellent point!

yeah, seriously. I'm a big boyscout, but i know my limits. Its not worth it to barge into a burning building. Its not my job, and I am no expert. I could just as likely get everyone killed by being an idiot who thought he could save everyone. I'd tell someone else go start calling, but I wouldn't miss my meeting, because then my livelihood is at stake, and chances are, if i'm a millionaire, the people who work for me are going to be in trouble to.

I'd feel bad for the victims, but I can't help them, and i would not be equipped to do so.