if you had a choice to save the person who will create a cure for cancer, aids and put an end to global-warming or your closest friend or family member. Who would you choose?
2006-11-15 08:22:32 · 14 answers · asked by ciaran_m_o 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nothing like a moral dilemma. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Well, although greater good is certainly a noble idea to follow through with, it is not the more realistic choice. We are all creatures of bonds and emotions. To choose that which we know and love over something that might be found by someone else is the choice we would all make almost hands down. It is not in us for selfless altruism per say, we are capable of it I beleive, but not as a standard. I would choose family and friend as it is what I know and what I love.
2006-11-15 08:33:23 · answer #1 · answered by Crucible 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would choose my closest friend. No doubt. Someone else will come along to cure those other things, but no-one could ever replace my closest friend.
But how about saying... "who would you save - a very close friend who had cancer, or the person who was about to find a cure for cancer?" That would be a tough one.
2006-11-15 08:37:53 · answer #2 · answered by Musicol 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Save the family member. There's a reason cancer and aids exist. If they were both cured, the world population might soar, causing major planetary problems like pollution, hunger, etc.
2006-11-15 08:30:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well aren't we asking some deep questions today.
Well it is really hard to say. I mean on one hand you could save thousands of lives but on the other this is someone you love dearly. I would say I would do my best to save the one that had the better chance. For example if the two were trapped under water and I could only save one I would save the one that had a better chance of survival. No need to save someone who can cure cancer if they are going to die before they do it. Hope that makes sense.
2006-11-15 08:30:19 · answer #4 · answered by Umm Ali 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i could never decide. I have like 70 family members or something like that all together 15 brothers and sisters and the whole cancer thing is also really hard to choose if i had a wider thing for the family part i'd choose all my family members since i'm close to all of them.
2006-11-15 08:26:40 · answer #5 · answered by Naskomenia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No contest. Those cures already exist, but are being withheld for economic reasons. Anyone who came up with an acceptable 'cure' is just looking out for his own pocketbook.
Google Don Croft Zapper or Royal Rife for the truth.
2006-11-15 08:30:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would choose the one I knew not to be "save" if Iknew one was of The Church and had received God's gift of Salvation I would, I hope, try tosave the one who was lost... so that they would still have a chance to come to God beofre they die. The other who was saved would be going to Heaven and be better off and would know why the choise was made and would approve of the choice... as would God.
If both were known to be lost I would save whom I could .
2006-11-15 08:27:57 · answer #7 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
my closest friend or family as what would be the point in surviving cancer ect if i had noone to share my life with, selfish i know but honest
2006-11-15 09:00:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really have no idea. Can I die instead of the person and my friend/family member? Is that cheating?
2006-11-15 08:39:54 · answer #9 · answered by ono 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
definately the person who will do all the good stuff- most of my close friends and immediate family are Christians so they have nothing to fear with death :) they wouldn't mind....
2006-11-15 08:48:18 · answer #10 · answered by trebor88 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋