Mothers, what would you do in this situation?

Question

It's wartime, and your hiding in a basement with your baby and a group of other people. Enemy soldiers are outside and will be drawn to any sound. If your found, you will be killed immediately. Your baby starts to cry loudly and cannot be stopped. Smothering him to death is the only way to silence him and save the lives of everyone in the room. Could you do so? Assume the baby is not yours, the parents are unknown and there will be no penalty for killing him. Could you be the one who smothers this baby if no one else would?

Answer 1

No, I would never smother a baby, no matter what the circumstances were.

Answer 2

I seriously don't think I would. It's hard to say because I haven't been in a situation where everyone's life was in my hands, but I don't think I would be able to. But who cares? I'll never be in that situation.

Answer 3

Yeh sorry baby you gotta go

Answer 4

There are lots of other ways to silence a baby without killing the poor thing...

Answer 5

OMG, why is this even a question on here? What kind of twisted mind just wonders about this stuff.

as for me - no way in h**l could I ever hurt a baby or child whether it's mine or not, I still couldn't do it. even if I was threaten I still wouldn't do it.

Answer 6

No way. There are other ways to quiet a child.

Answer 7

You are not very original in your question.  Can't you think of something on your own.  For pitty sake, even MASH covered this in their last season.

My answer is, I don't know, no one does.  We would all like to think that we would never ever do this but until you are in that kind of situation then it is something that you can't even try to answer.  

Answer 8

No, I couldn't do it.  I watched a movie once where a mother smothered her son and the death rattle of the baby alerted the soldiers to the families location (the mother went insane).  Now that I have a baby of my own I couldn't imagine doing such a thing.  I believe that murder is a sin, and killing a baby is not defensible, even if it would save lives (I'd rather be killed by the soldiers).

Answer 9

No, I could not even for that reason, take a child's life! I guess if I had to pick between me & my baby's life over the other people's lives, I guess I would have to pick me & my child's life over the people, I would get up and walk outside w/ my child alive, if we were to be killed, then we would be killed together (alive to begin with),life is a precious thing God gave it to us, I don't see I could or would take the life of my baby! God gives life, and only God can take it away!Sorry!

Answer 10

I hate this question!  I can't even think about it... :\