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| 22 Jun 2012 09:11 PM |
I recently watched the movie "Sobibor." It's based on a true story from a n@zi death camp.
Before you start making racial jokes, I have a scenario for all of you to think about, derived from this movie:
** You are a prisoner. You and 9 other people try to escape. The punishment for trying to escape is immediate death by gun. You and the 9 others are lined up in a row in front of the rest of the prison. Here's the catch, provided by your sick twisted warden:
You must choose from the crowd, a "partner in death." You will walk out, grab someone's hand, and they will be killed with you. If any of the 10 original targets do not comply with selecting their partner, the warden will personally select 50 people from the crowd to die with them instead of the 10 that were supposed to with the first option.
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sinii
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| 22 Jun 2012 09:20 PM |
| I didn't come on WWC to do math. |
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WhyTruth
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| 22 Jun 2012 09:22 PM |
| Obviously the option that leads to the least deaths |
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| 22 Jun 2012 09:23 PM |
| It's not math. It's "more people die, indirectly your fault; less people die, more directly your fault." |
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DrCaneJr
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| 22 Jun 2012 09:29 PM |
| I chose more people die because they're not the superior white race. |
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| 22 Jun 2012 09:34 PM |
| Then for your case, let's assume they are all members of your favorite race. Do you want to walk out into the crowd and personally choose one person to die with you (even thought they obviously don't want to die right now), or refuse to choose and have the warden kill more people that you did not pick personally, making you less responsible for their specific deaths? |
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| 22 Jun 2012 09:38 PM |
| I would take the bullet with someone. |
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sinii
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| 22 Jun 2012 09:43 PM |
| So if you pick one, only you and the chosen person die? |
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sinii
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| 22 Jun 2012 09:50 PM |
| If I don't pick, someone else from the group of ten is probably going to pick. And so it's not my fault, I don't die, and less people are dead. |
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jbg23
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| 22 Jun 2012 10:29 PM |
| I choose the option where I'm not in this situation in the first place. |
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AeLiSTaS3
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| 22 Jun 2012 11:10 PM |
| We would all hold hands and form a circle and then sing Jewish songs while getting shot. |
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| 22 Jun 2012 11:13 PM |
| tackle the warden and die fighting. |
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| 22 Jun 2012 11:46 PM |
solar's idea is brave
if I were there I'd go down fighting with him. |
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:14 AM |
| Tackle the warden, take his gun and run like a starving person using the other dude as a human shield. |
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:25 AM |
"If I don't pick, someone else from the group of ten is probably going to pick. And so it's not my fault, I don't die, and less people are dead."
If just one person refuses to choose a partner, a much larger number of people will die along with you. Both ways, you die. Everyone has to choose a partner or else 50 extras will be killed, but they will be chosen by the warden instead of the ten.
@Everyone saying they will tackle the warden,
You will die because you are unarmed and the warden has a gun, not to mention the group of like 20 officers with guns next to him (the ones performing the execution). If someone attacks the warden, 200 people will die by his selection.
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sinii
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:27 AM |
| Why didn't you explain that before? |
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:27 AM |
| I did. Maybe you misinterpreted it. |
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sinii
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:29 AM |
| I didn't come to WWC expecting a reading comprehension test. |
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:43 AM |
| Life is a test, so get used to it. |
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sinii
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:45 AM |
What? You're the creator of humans and that's your reason for life?
No, no one knows if life is a test. |
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Comoros
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:50 AM |
| Could I choose the warden to die with me? |
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:51 AM |
I didn't say some creator was testing you. Life is a test because you're living it in the eyes of others.
Now, back to the scenario...
Would you choose a partner in death, looking them in the eye selecting them and only them out of everyone else, or refuse to select and die knowing that 50 random people will die that did not die specifically and directly from your choice?
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Comoros
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:53 AM |
ok then yah im choosing the warden
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sinii
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| 23 Jun 2012 12:55 AM |
| I would have chosen the warden, too. But then he'd probably get all mad and kill 50 people anyway. |
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