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Blame @Clippy for inspiring me to make 2 threads this morning. This first one asking if you have ever been on a plane or a boat, and now this one trying to see if what was once called chivalry is in fact dead? Or is self sacrifice still a thing in this more modern era?
So here is the scenario you face.
You are flying with no friends or family and know the plane will crash land in the water. You know the water is freezing and death will come quick for any not in a raft. You know the raft only has limited seating and anyone else will be with a flotation device in the water. You do not know how quick help will arrive.
What do you do? Do you try to help others off first, thus ensuring you are near to last and not in the raft? Do you save yourself, grab a seat in the boat and refuse to relinquish it even if faced with children or women with no seat? If you have a pet with you (as many now do on planes) and you know the life boat is being taken to the its most critical weight before risking sinking, do you leave the pet behind so there is maximum room for people? Would you risk your life to save others?
What do you do?
Excepts from this article Clippy linked in another thread
- Passengers described how some of the male passengers shouted 'Women and children first!, after the plane finally came to a halt.
- The river was freezing and she soon realized she could not survive in the cold.
- Luckily a complete stranger risked his own life to shuffle down the wing and haul her out.
- The passengers in the water would not have survived for more than five or ten minutes
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For me...
I like to believe and actually think I would be one helping others and by virtue of that just be left without a seat. So its not so much a conscious choice to not take a seat as doing something that I know will result in that but doing it anyway as its the right thing to do IMO.
So here is the scenario you face.
You are flying with no friends or family and know the plane will crash land in the water. You know the water is freezing and death will come quick for any not in a raft. You know the raft only has limited seating and anyone else will be with a flotation device in the water. You do not know how quick help will arrive.
What do you do? Do you try to help others off first, thus ensuring you are near to last and not in the raft? Do you save yourself, grab a seat in the boat and refuse to relinquish it even if faced with children or women with no seat? If you have a pet with you (as many now do on planes) and you know the life boat is being taken to the its most critical weight before risking sinking, do you leave the pet behind so there is maximum room for people? Would you risk your life to save others?
What do you do?
Excepts from this article Clippy linked in another thread
- Passengers described how some of the male passengers shouted 'Women and children first!, after the plane finally came to a halt.
- The river was freezing and she soon realized she could not survive in the cold.
- Luckily a complete stranger risked his own life to shuffle down the wing and haul her out.
- The passengers in the water would not have survived for more than five or ten minutes
-----
For me...
I like to believe and actually think I would be one helping others and by virtue of that just be left without a seat. So its not so much a conscious choice to not take a seat as doing something that I know will result in that but doing it anyway as its the right thing to do IMO.
