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Ok, on the losen Friday trend of random, off the wall thoughts consider this.

If you have to choose between
a) saving a stranger's baby's live and
b) getting $1000 dollars richer

which would you choose? Don't ask why $1000 has anything to do with baby's live. Let's presume that no one will know your action and no one will judge you. You just do it because you want to do it.


Edit:

Stall's scenario:

"you're in the middle of a huge forest miles from civilization, and you there's a a river with two rafts one with a random baby and one with 1000 dollars on it and they both going down towards a waterfall and there's sharp rocks at the bottom and you can only get one raft?"

Assuming the baby's weight has no effect on your raft manuvering, and that you can stear it to safety.

it depends on the person, if it is some nice person, i choose the baby, if it is a person who in all reality shoulnt even have a kid (i.e. a 13 year old, or a hardcore drug addict) then i would take the cash and spare them ruining the babies life anyway.

1000$ is not enough...
The feeling of guilt for the rest of your life, not counting the charges you will face in court, and getting sued and everything..
Make it a couple hundred thousand or maybe a couple million, then it's fair.

yea what if the babies was meant to die...and one baby wont make
a difference will it, not if its parents will end up getting it killed anyway.

But saying that i cant just let it die, its an innocent life

Sure I'd choose to save the baby.

Not taking care of it though. But I won't pick up a thousand bucks and let a child die.

stall

read the question. NO ONE will know your choice. NO ONE will praise you or criticize you.

i think he was saying its not worth having to live with yourself

$1000 isn't worth the life of the future.

i would chose the baby.. 1000$ isnt enough

ok then... how much would really make you think twice?

$10,000? $100,000?

100000$ is good

You'd have to give me a lot more than that.
Even if the baby's parents were total asshats, it wouldn't be fair to let the child die since it's innocent.

$1,000,000 RuYi? That's a shit load of money.

No amount of money is worth a child's life.

Hmm... Not sure, really difficult to say what I'd do if it was real. But everything has its price.

Besides, how many lifes could I save with that million if I let one child die?
That is, if I'm that noble.

Id save the baby take the $1000 out of your hands and run K?

No. But RuYi has a point. You can save A LOT of children with $1,000,000.

Well says who like you get a twist of fate from karma if you dont save the child :ninja

+1

I'd be satisfied with $1,000.

Id save the baby



Yeah you could but In the heat of the moment i wouldnt think of that but act on my instincts alone.

We are having conversations in my Ethics class about different views on how to live a good life, choosing right and wrong. And one of the views of the many we discuss is picking what makes more people happy, or what would help more people. This topic and what RuYi said reminds me so much of it.

But no matter the amount of money, i would easily chose to save someone. I always try to put others far before myself, and thats as good a situation as any. I would even give my own life to save another.

id do it for a million any day. i mean, its just ONE child, and if the parents never had it they wouldnt know the difference right? Or did i have to kill the kid?

Realistically, I think RuYi made a lot of sense and I would do that.

$1000 doesn't spread very far but with a bigger amount, I can do a lot with that.

I mean, a stranger's baby is a stranger's baby right? Why can't you let one die to save a lot and give some to myself?

It's not ethically the right thing to do (I think), but it's the logical thing to do.

I don't know. I would stand there going 'umm umm umm umm duhhh which one????' until it was too late.

Well even if i had say 1million pounds, personally i would only use a
small amount for charitable organisations.

and am sure that goes for some of you out there as well

This relates to the thread, how?

because even if people took 1million over the baby with the intention
of helping charities to make up for it...peoples greed sets in and they
wont want to give a lot of the money away

With the exception of few, everyone is willing to save a child's life over $1,000. But, are you willing to give at least $10 to save one?
(https://secure.ga4.org/01/recurring_giving)

I wouldn't. I believe that everyone should strive for the best. When I become a father I would rather put all my effort into him/her, expecting other parents to do the same. If the child was born with bad parents, that isn't my responsibility - i'm not Jesus, I don't save.

But of course, for the baby at hand - it would depend on me. If I were on welfare with a family to feed and bills to pay I would take the money. If it were now, i'd save the baby.

And if just this baby are you .and other think a is just one child so forget him i take the money ..if you see and hear all what you think is it right? Take the money or safe you.