You are the one who has to decide what to do. Specifically you choose who gets the parachutes(how would you go about choosing?).
Give reason(s) for your answer. Of course if there's another choice besides deciding who gets the parachutes, you may enlighten us.
2007-03-08 15:18:38 · 13 answers · asked by Asa 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
as a skydiver knows, one prachute can easily hold two people.
give the solo chute to the heaviest, and strap the other two together, as with tandem jumps.
2007-03-08 15:27:20 · answer #1 · answered by dj pete 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a Hobbesian Choice. The right thing to do is give up the parachutes. The rational thing is to see who is the oldest, the oldest having already lived the longest. The supra-rational thing would be to consider if the oldest is your friend and you don't particularly like the other person.
What would I do? Ultimately, even with the foreknowledge that at my last second of consciousness, my conscience would say, you know, numbskull, you just made a HUGE mistake, survival is all there is you fool, lose that and nobility and lofty ideals have no meaning to you anymore, you are going to be dead. Your survival should have been all that mattered to you, no matter what. Even with that foreknowledge, I would probably make myself give up the chutes. I'm not trying to say oh what a wonderful person I am, it's just that I know that it would torture me for the rest of my life if I did anything else and I don't need this sh it.
2007-03-08 15:26:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give the parachutes to the other two people, and try to right the plane. If anything, maybe my family would get a plaque, or I'd get a street named after me. Sure, I threw away my life, but I'm a human, and we make exceedingly stupid decisions like that all the time.
2007-03-08 15:21:18 · answer #3 · answered by chrisser665 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a christian I would tell the non christian to save himself, because I would feel destined for heaven, not due to my actions at that present time...it would not be a last moment of redemption in my life. If however they are all christians I would convince them that I am young, and have a wonderful gift to give to the world and convince them to let me use the parachute, unless they had a greater will to fulfill.
2007-03-08 15:23:42 · answer #4 · answered by Ask a Health Nut 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would either:
A) go by the one that makes the most money, so he can pay for the other person's funerals...
B) go by the one that has the most family (wife, kids, etc...)
C) slit the parachutes cuz I can...
D) get in the fetal position and cry until I die...
E) start humming the titanic song...
F) Id whip out my gun and shoot both people and take both shutes, just in case one didnt work...
2007-03-08 15:23:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have the other two people grab the parachutes, and then have them grab me by the arms as we jumped.
2007-03-08 15:22:54 · answer #6 · answered by thereligiousrightisneither 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all 3 huddle together and make use of the parachutes, all jumping at the same time and holding each other!
2007-03-08 15:22:20 · answer #7 · answered by ~Tintin~ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends who they are. If they are Bush and Osama, I'd rather jump off with both the parachutes...
All the best...
:-)
2007-03-09 04:16:34 · answer #8 · answered by plato's ghost 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you tie two people together & have them use the same parachute. you would want to do that to the two smallest people.
by the way, i am assuming you mean airplane?
2007-03-08 15:21:29 · answer #9 · answered by christy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
id give em to d 2 other people
2007-03-08 15:55:32 · answer #10 · answered by deepu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋