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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I'm assuming that if both need saving from the train tracks, the neither can control their situations.
So, to tweak the hypothetical: What if it turns out that the stranger on the tracks is a single-mother (husband was killed in Iraq) of three children under the age of ten who will now be orphans because you chose to save your dog? Should that matter? Why or why not?
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Well seeing as how I don't actually have a dog and there's only a stranger on the tracks I would save the stranger. But then this is hypothetical.
However, I thought the whole point of this hypothetical was that we didn't know any details. Of course, things change once you hear a story. What if the person tied themselves to the tracks or something because they're trying to commit suicide? What if the person tied to the tracks was a murderer and rapist? And now you just saved his life and now he will go murder 10 more people. On the other extreme is perhaps it's the person who will cure cancer. So yes depending on the stranger's back story I would choose the stranger or not.
In all honesty, I go to pieces in emergencies so I'd probably just stand there screaming hysterically. I'd probably lunge at the tracks to try to save something and end up killing myself in the process.
Also, I firmly believe no one can *truly* say what they would do in a situation until it happens.
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