87-110711785806 Apr 2005, 14:49 UTC
This is a game to make ppl think. What you do is answer the last posted question and then make up another thought question. Shoot, it makes me think just to come up with one!!! Good Luck
Pretend that u were in the Tsunami, and u are a single parent with 4 kids and you were holding onto a big palm tree. The salty water is rushing past you and your kids, threatening to sweep all of you away if you, the parent, didn't make a decision. You knew that you had to choose between letting go of one of your kids to save yourself and the other kids or hold on to all of them and you all die; which one would you choose?
109-110769783806 Apr 2005, 16:19 UTC
it's too difficult 
115-110950221406 Apr 2005, 16:25 UTC
I would let one go because i dont have the right to sacrifice all of their lives for just one.
And you know how it goes the minority is suppresed by the majority.
How do you think that life was for the german troops on the eastern front?
Everybody knows about the american soldier, british or russian but nobody knows about the poor soldiers from the Wermarcht (german land forces) killed from behind by Schlutzstaffeln (SS), Kripo (Kriminalpolizei), Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo), MP (militar polizei) fanatics who killed the ones who retreat from impossible to defend positions after fighting bravely.
And from the front by the OGPU and the russian "horde" , Stalin lets say that he was the most succesful assasin he escaped unharmed after kiling about 40milion russians.
This should give some thoughts.
87-110711785808 Apr 2005, 17:00 UTC
That's a tough one. I think life was pretty darn hard for th Germans. You bring up a good topic!
78-110711749708 Apr 2005, 23:11 UTC
| Quote (Wa-ya @ April 06 2005,10:49) |
| Pretend that u were in the Tsunami, and u are a single parent with 4 kids and you were holding onto a big palm tree. The salty water is rushing past you and your kids, threatening to sweep all of you away if you, the parent, didn't make a decision. You knew that you had to choose between letting go of one of your kids to save yourself and the other kids or hold on to all of them and you all die; which one would you choose? |
I'd let one go because, like Shdrex said, it wouldn't be fair to lose all the others for one. Better the loss of one than the loss of many. I'd hold myself responsible for losing more children than I had to.
I'll do the next question, that is, if it's OK by you, Wa-ya. 
Let's say out of those four children you had a baby, a toddler, a fourth-grade child, and one in junior high. Which would you let go (judging by age alone and not by physical ability or personality)? I understand, of course, that in real life the decision could (and probably would) be altered by one of the things I named above that you are not to judge by.