Survey:parents, would you sacrifice 1 of your children to save 2 random children? use logic?

Question

please use logic and reasoning. let's see how many people don't...

Answer 1

Listen

We're mothers.  We protect our children, it's our job, it's our instinct.

Oh WOW, ok, you're 13.  lol, go to bed.

This is just something you wont understand, honey.

Answer 2

So Mr. big shot THIRTEEN year old. That's right he's thirteen. [my source is questions he's asked] Anyway to answer your question. Would sacraficing my old child's life or health be a selfless act to help two others? I don't think so. I'm not saying my child's life is more important than the other two "random kids" but it just isn't worth it. It doesn't mean I'm mean or selfish, it means I'm doing what's the best thing for ME not other people ME. You may pick the "random kids" and that may be the best choice for you and if it is by all means go ahead. I'm not going to tell you how to run your life.

Also your basically telling other people that what they believe and think is wrong. Well it's not! Their entitled to their own opinions by the first amendment. So ,just because people don't agree with you doesn't mean they are wrong because their not!

Besides what do you care about this stuff your 13! And don't say "but your fifteen" so what your in what 7th grade? I'm a sophomore in high school and I take classes on things related to this.

Think before you type!

Answer 3

no..no logic needed...no other persons kids would be more important to me than mine

Answer 4

This question defies logic which you seem to like throwing around as what is "sensible" and "logical" for a person that does not have a child.

If it has to be explained to you then you wouldn't understand

There is nothing that is logical about the love for your child.  If the choice was mine, I would most definitely choose my child over two other children that were not mine.  In fact the brutal cold harsh and very "practical" truth is I would just like any other parent choose my children over a thousand others.

Wake up call here.  I don't give a rat's a** about YOUR kids.. I only concern myself with mine.  Self serving individualistic greedy nature of human beings at it's finest.  It is what it is, you can't enforce your own policies of moral stature onto someone else and deem them inferior to your logical deduction of giving the life of your child to save the life of 2 others.

Good to know you would choose to let mine live instead of yours.  Sorry for your loss...  but not really.  Mine is alive, and I don't care about yours.   That's the brutal reality of human nature.

Survival of the fittest.  You have been weighed.. you have been measured... and you have been found wanting.

Here is the brutal truth...

You will never convince anyone who is a parent that the logical decision is self sacrifice for the sanctity of another.  Selfish?  Mean?

d**n straight.

Who cares about you...  I only care about me and my child.  Nuff said

Fact is, you won't even get the chance to make a decision like that because I'll make it for you long before you even have a chance to.  That's reality

Answer 5

so my guess is you dont have kids , right ?

EDIT : LOL! WOOW! hahaha , you are pathetic ..

reading your "details" made me realize what a HORRIBLE

person you are . GUESS WHAT BUD ? you OBVIOUSLY

DONT HAVE KIDS ... AND WHEN YOU DO , IF YOU DO

THEN YOULL LOOK BACK AT THIS QUESTION AND BE

LIKE .. " WTF logic has NOTHING to do with it "

LIKE any mom or dad who raised a good child who is well mannered and has a bright future ahead of them is going to sacrafice them for someone they dont know that could be a complete drug addict loser. SO DONT YOU DARE go telling these hard working moms and dads that they are a mean, rude race , cause you dont even know what its like having a kid you moron.

Answer 6

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course any loving parent would save their child over someone else's any day. I know I wouldn't give up my child for anyone or anything. It's really not my problem to worry about someone else's child. I have my own to care for.

Answer 7

No.  

Answer 8

Yes.

2 - 1 = 1.

1 life saved.

Answer 9

Logic to me is a reasoned and reasonable judgement. You are asking parents if they would sacrifice their child for two others. The only reasonable answer they could possibly come to is to save their own. So therefore, all answers have used logic.

Maybe you should have asked if it was more fair/just to sacrifice one of your children to save two others. That would have been an interesting question to which the answer is undoubtedly a yes. I still wouldn't do it though, and I'd sleep fine about my decision.

I find it hilarious that you consider everyone here a moron, when you clearly don't understand the definition of logic yourself. You say you consider yourself a "radical, sensible thinker", when clearly you are fairly simplistic in your thought process. Sensible to me is not watching my child die for two people I don't know.

I'm vegetarian, I don't drive and I am socially conscientious, even spending some of my life as a Freegan. I've also spent a long time volunteering to help homeless drug addicted children learn life skills instead of work full time in the rat race myself. I have to say that my viewpoint is far more radical than yours probably ever will be.

I gather from what you are saying, you consider yourself a much more  generous and liberal person than everyone else here.  I would argue that you need to stop reading so much Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easten Ellis and other nihilist rants (hey, I used to when I was a teenager too) and grow the **** up.

Oh, and please don't for a second think you have offended me. I'm in stitches right now. I can't wait to show my partner when he gets home. Thanks for the amusement.

Answer 10

What a horrible thought. I hope I'm never faced with anything like it, but i believe it would be a natural instinct to save your own child first, I think that is what I would do

Answer 11

Umm, NOPE

Answer 12

Heck no!  

Answer 13

Logically, it would more than likely be better for the greater good, to sacrifice 1 to save 2. However, for all I know, my child that gets sacrificed could grow up to cure cancer and the two I saved could grow up to be bioterrorists. Or it could go the other way also.

However, even with thinking about that, I still say no. My love and responsibilty to my child are more important than any logic or responsibilty to society.  

Answer 14

i see what you mean...and i dont wanna sound mean when i say this either..but i would save my own child for two reasons, one because he is my child and i love him and i could not stand too lose him...but thinking LOGICALLY, the world is overpopulated as it is...so i think id be doing the most good just keeping my own.

Answer 15

You can't use logic and reasoning when it's your own children who you would be sacrificing.  The bonds of the relationship between parents and children are so strong, they circumvent logic.  

Nice try with that one.

Peace,

Jenn

Answer 16

no, im not a parent yet buti know for sure id NEVER do that to my kid to save 2 i dont know. i know itd be nice, but i just couldnt do that to someone i had a bond with...i couldnt even imagine doing that to my family, friends or boyfriend so i cant imagine my kid. logic and reasoning WAS used here - PARENTS LOVE THEIR KIDS! and protect them no matter what!

Answer 17

If I lost one of my kids it would kill me inside as it would most.  So, ofcourse I wouldn't sacrifice my own child.

Now using Logic. Why would I sacrifice my child who is healthy and has a bright future for any 2 random children?  I don't know what health these other 2 children are in.  I don't know if these children our happy.  I don't know what these children will do with there lives.  Come on....

below is added.

You know you added comments stating that the other 2 mothers would be just as upset as however, you are forgetting your scenario.  The children are random you don't know if they even have mother's that are alive.  You don't even know if these children you are randomly saving have a terminal illness.  It is no way logical to risk your child without having facts.

Answer 18

I think this is an awful question, but no, i would not sacrifice my own kid to save someone else's.

Answer 19

Nope, logically speaking you are a child to a mother and a father .So please tell me, if your parents came to you and said "son there is a set of twins that are fighting for their lives. One needs a heart transplant and the other needs kidneys, so us as your parents are going to kill you so we can donate your organs to save the twins life".How would you feel? Your parents would never even tell you such... Now if my child was already dieing(God forbid) and there were two kids that needed organs, would I donate them yes and I'm sure every parent would. You cant ask a parent a question like that without pissing them off. My advice to you is for you not to ask questions like this one until you ask your own parents first. Look at it this way if your parents believed that killing you to save others was okay then you wouldn't have posted this comment(because people are dieing everyday). Good day to you.

Answer 20

you would need to give further details for a logical parent to be able to answer...

in all honesty, and without any details or scenerio, i would say no

Answer 21

Wow, with your thinking, you could start a whole black market business.  You and your wife could have a kid each year, birth it at home, and then sell its organs and body parts on the black market to people whose children are in dire need of transplants.  Would take a lot of work to find the families, the doctors, etc. but sacrificing your child would save SO many others.

Answer 22

No I wouldn't. Logic: the two children that I kill will no longer contribute to over-population. And another persons pain would hurt less than mine.

Answer 23

Absolutely not. Logic goes out the window when it's your own child. They come first no matter what.

Answer 24

Wait until you have children to ask a question like that. Until you have a child you can't answer that question with any honesty or experience. Its all fine and nice to 'think' what you would do. But until you have that bond you will never know.

Oh and to answer the question. No I wouldn't give up my child. My child deserves to live just as much as any other child. And what kind of parent would I be to sacrifice a child I gave birth to, to save a child I don't even know. Sorry not a chance. Give birth and risk your life, then decide if you could give that baby up.  

Answer 25

ffs...id save my kid i mean shoot lol im not the one that will feel pain

XD

Answer 26

I don't know any parent who would ever sacrifice their own children EVER.

One day when you grow up and have your own kids you will realise what a pathetic kind of question this is.

Hows that for logic??????????

Answer 27

The logical answer is actually a question... Why would you want a parent to even have to think this thought? Do you have mental issues? Personally, I would find a way to save all three. I would not sacrifice any child. I want no part, Thank you very much!

Answer 28

even using all the logic i can think of..no..i would not even need to think about it..i know that sounds horrible but my children mean more to me than anything in the world and i would save them before i saved anyone including myself, my husband, mother, etc..that is what happens when you have kids i can not think of anyone who would say yes.it would surprise me greatly..i do no think there is reasoning..there is only one reason..that is my child and i have a responsibility as a parent to keep them safe, happy.etc

after reading your add on..wow you are a moron and if you have kids i am so sorry to them..i hope they never have to know what kind of parent you are oh wow..you are a sad pathetic ignorant person..get a life and i hope you never have kids..i highly highly doubt you do for saying such bullshit..jackass

this pathetic loser ***** is claiming to only be 13 years old he knows NOTHING all he knows is how to disappoint his parents if he has any and i do not think they are good ones if he has them that is why he feels this way..he has a horrible life boo hoo hoo and now he thinks he can be a good man when he grows up..bullshit he will be as pathetic as this question and probably his parents he knows NOTHING he is a pathetic little boy (maybe) and just wants attention