You would trade 12+ coworkers for one grandchild?
How about 100 coworkers? How about 100 toddlers in a day-care center?
It’s impossible to know what is the right thing to do.
Terrorists confront you with guns, making demands. You have a split second to decide if you give them a code (not sure of what they’re going to do) or let them murder your child.
Would you tell them to go ahead and kill YOUR child? I can’t imagine any parent making any other decision in such a situation.
“You would trade 12+ coworkers for one grandchild? How about 100 coworkers? How about 100 toddlers in a day-care center?”
We all know you would stand and say, “here, slay my grandchild to save yon others. Farewell my sweet child. Do not weep, for we will meet in heaven.”!
But then of course, before they could fire, you would launch faster than a mambas strike right into a spin kick, disarm all three terrorists, and save the child (who you were fully prepared to see die). You then stand and receive medals and eternal admiration from all the coworkers who bake a cake in your honor.
As long as you were writing fiction, I thought I would help out.
Ridiculous extrapolation.
A mother’s basic instinct to protect her child supercedes all else.
Even in the world of the lower animals.
while you’re so deeply invested in this hypothetical, let’s throw in a few ponies and goldfish too. So now we’re talking about 100 coworkers, 100 toddlers, 75 ponies and 200 goldfish. My additions only make the hypothetical slightly more ridiculous.
People who sit behind computers and judge the actions of others while they have a gun put to their heads have never had a gun put to their head.
“You would trade 12+ coworkers for one grandchild?
How about 100 coworkers? How about 100 toddlers in a day-care center?
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As long as we are dealing in “have you quit beating your wife” hypotheticals what if the terrorists had hijacked a bus with 100 day care toddlers on it and threatened to blow it up if the old paratrooper didn’t open the door?
Would the old paratrooper open it?
Those are rhetorical questions as ridiculous and dishonest as yours.
Be realistic. She just witnessed two of her colleagues shot dead in front of her and her child. It is a trumatic, horrifying experience. When they turn to her and say give us the code or we will kill you and your child, the normal, human response would be to save the life of your child and yourself. Anyone who thinks otherwise lives in a fantasy world ala Walter Mitty.