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I don't get this. They are either a loved one or not. If you can look at a loved one as a complete stranger, chances are they are not a loved one. I could never look at my wife or daughter as just another person, regardless of the scenario.
Yeah it is. Most of tr crazies are from drug over use than from actual mental disorder though.
I've heard a variation of this that it's a school bus of kids stuck on the tracks. In that case, I'd probably do whatever is actually physically possible to keep everyone from dying. And just like the loved one choice, I'd still feel a lot of guilt over the people I 'chose' to let die. But I could more easily live with that guilt vs. knowing I let DH die. So I think that makes me less than a psychopath.
Actually, I'd probably let the train derail and save the kidnapped person. People on the train may live. Happens all the time.
But really, I'd be like **** this fake scenario, I'm going back into my reality where I don't have to make silly psych test decisions. Ha!
It's understandable that you'd feel that way!
Let me try to appeal to the emotional part of it.
Why is that one loved one of yours any more important than the 15 other people, who likely all have other loved ones as well. In the grand scheme of things, won't there be more hurt and sorrow from the accumulation of all of the loved ones in this world of those 15 people as opposed to the 1?
???? I have no idea, probably grumpy that I told him he was on my ignore list whatever it was, a few days ago...which is now funny because I didn't even see it, because he's on my ignore list. So maybe he's trying to get me back or something...
I saw something earlier about costume and impersonation, but saw it was in response to him, so kinda shrugged and moved on.
I mean, what's he doing? I could always report him, I guess if he's being a real terd....
Exactly. And there's nothing wrong with that. Pretty much nobody would fault somebody for making that decision. But techically it's selfish. You're letting 14 more people die so you don't have to deal with the anguish of losing a loved one.
Yeah, but I'm fine with that, if there were 15 people hanging from 1 rope and one of my son's hanging from another off the edge of a cliff or whatever I'd cut the rope with the 15 people before you got done telling me the directions.
This is actually almost on the thinking of psychopaths as well. There's no right or wrong answer to the question, it's the amount of difficulty you have coming to the decision. Little to no difficulty tends to lead to black and white thinking.
He's got the same Winchester image on his signature and the same 96% loaded under his username. At first glance, it totally looks like you!
After you have a kid, come back and tell me you wouldn't save them over 15 strangers. If my own kid were one of the strangers, I still wouldn't fault you for making that choice.
That too. And my hairline has receded more than any president since Ike. These three things are holding me back.
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