If you could save 10 strangers, or 1 family member from a fire, which would you pick, and why?

Answer 1

i would save ten strangers because then they have the ability to save ten more people. So I have just saved 100 people. Its alot like the movie Pay It Forward....

Answer 2

Family member

Answer 3

I would save a family member before i saved 10 strangers, I would try to save them after i saved my family.

Answer 4

Interesting situation you propose.

I think about it from the angle of the family member being my mother or father and some of the 10 strangers being children. My fam. member would not want those children to die, they would be willing to give their life for them. So, that being the case, I would save the strangers.

Now that I think about it, if the superhero in me can save 10 people from a blazing fire, what the hell is one more....TA-DAAAA!

I have saved the day, my friend.

Thanks, this was fun!

Answer 5

The right thing to do would be to save 10 people, over saving one, but put in this position I would save my family, asked this in a bar or social setting I would say 10 strangers..right haha.

Answer 6

Who are the ten strangers & who is the 1 family member?

Answer 7

1 family member 1st... because it is easy to save 1 than 10.

Answer 8

The family member. I would be influenced by my genetic similarity to the family member. Think if it were your mother and all yelled for help in the same way/volume. Who would you listen to? That takes care of the unconscious effect of the genes and the conscious decision made at the time.

Answer 9

family member

Answer 10

If you don't save that one family member, you'll regret it the rest of your life. We will never know until we get to where the fire is and begin to hear the voice of the person we forgot to say "I love you" that morning.