A little dilemma

[Civlord]

Well, here is my dilemma:

Suppose you are walking on the streets with your whole family, when some guy points a gun to you and takes you to a dark place. In this dark place, he gives you two choices:

1. Run.
2. Stay there.

"But", he says, "if you choose to run, then I will have to kill your family. If you choose to stay, then I will kill you and leave your family alive."

So, would you run, or stay there to be killed, but saving your family?

 

[newfangle]

That's the best you can come up with?

Why not replace 'family' with 'guy that will cure cancer'?

 

[Civlord]

That's the best you can come up with?

Why not replace 'family' with 'guy that will cure cancer'?

Don't you like your family?

 

[newfangle]

No. XCL

 

[Civlord]

No. XCL

Then replace it for whatever you want, but just answer the question.

 

[Gilder]

Then I read this as:

1. Run.
2. Stay there.

"But", he says, "if you choose to run, then I will have to kill the person you hate most. If you choose to stay, then I will kill you and leave the person you hate most."

So, would you run, or stay there to be killed, but saving the person you hate most?

I'd run.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Anyone who would offer up such a choice cannot be trusted to follow through as he says he will. My family would attack and beat the crap out of him.

 

[funxus]

Ethically, don't care if I live or die myself, but I'd probably end up killing myself if I left my family to be killed... So I'd stay and let my family go, though I'd be surprised if they accepted the situation and actually took off themselves...

 

[Nate128]

I would use my amazing uber-karate powers to magically knock the guy out. Then I would hop on a 5-foot tall toad and ride it to Atlantis,

 

[newfangle]

Then replace it for whatever you want, but just answer the question.

I'd run like the wind.

 

[Elgalad]

Assuming that the gunman is able to shoot me before I am able to ready my own weapon..

I would be dead and the question moot.

If however, he had hesitated after mistakenly assuming me to be a typical liberal gun control advocate who was more concerned with my political agenda than my 2nd Amendment rights..

He would be dead, and I would be dialing 911.



-Elgalad

 

[Keirador]

I'd stay and let my family go. Honestly I'd much rather let them all die and live myself, and it's not that I'd feel guilty, it's that I'd just feel obligated. I think it would really be more the social pressure of having to defend your family than an actual sincere desire to die for my family. It would be different if it were my wife and kids, but at this point my family is my parents and sisters; I love them, but only in large part because I have to.

 

[Colonel]

but at this point my family is my parents and sisters; I love them, but only in large part because I have to.

Seriously though if it were me with my brothers and parents I would say to the gunmen, I hope you have health insurance, walk away and wait for it to be over.

If I were with my girlfriend and it was me or her I would let her go. Simply because thats the honorable thing to do.

 

[Perfection]

I wouldn't buy this bull, I'd run.

 

[sysyphus]

Depends on what is meant by my family. I'd take the bullet for my wife and children, but wouldn't take it for my parents or other ancestors, strictly of course because that's the way they'd want it.

 

[Norlamand]

Well, living in Texas, a state with a concealed carry permit, I would draw out my CZ52 and place a round or two in his sorry ass at the outset.

 

[silver 2039]

I would stab him with the blade I carry. If not possible I would run like hell but I would grab my dog first.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

I'll run, waiting to cash in on my father's inheritance and those multimillion insurance policy

j/k

 

[Winner]

Stay and attempt to get his gun. You have nothing to lose, he is probably psychopathic and will kill you and your family anyway.

 

[Dann]

Stay and attempt to get his gun. You have nothing to lose, he is probably psychopathic and will kill you and your family anyway.

My choice as well. Fight and shout at my family: "RUN!!!"

This guy can't be trusted. You run, he'll most likely shoot you in the back. Then go after your family. You let him kill you in cold blood, he'll have no obligation to keep his word to a dead man, and will also go after your family.

However, before I do the above I will first try to reason with him. Perhaps he can be convinced to let us all go in exchange for money.