Poll: Guys: would you give up your seat on the last lifeboat to women and children?

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

If they were my family, yes.

Just kidding, but yeah, I would give it up for the woman and the child. Especially for the child though. He/She has a whole life to live (I would hope!).

 

[Hunter.Wolf]

For children or a woman with her child .. yes i might give my place up on the lifeboat .. but to a single adult woman .. i guess not .. if they demanded equality they have to deal with the consequences XD

Reason !!? .. an adult regardless of gender can manage and find alternative ways to survive or escape death in those kind of situations .. but children will simply panic and die .. too creepy and inhuman IMO to be responsible for the death of helpless children.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Children I can sort of understand, but are the women going to give up their seat for me? It's blatant sexism of the worst kind - men are directly hurt by this idea of "chivalry" and women get hurt by it too by perpetuating the idea that it's men's job to keep women safe and save them.

There's an instinctual desire to save women and children because they're both more necessary for the proliferation of the species, but it's not as if that's really an issue in most of the modern world.

Also, saving children based on the fact that they have more potential years left has always seemed a little silly to me. Saving them based on the fact that they might potentially be great and useful humans only really makes sense if you think you're not a great and useful human already. Personally, I'm not going to gamble on some kid growing up to be even more exceptional - I'm already pretty exceptional.

Then there's also the basic (completely rational) selfishness factor. If I die, I won't really be around to appreciate any potential benefits from having saved the woman/child. The world may be a much better place because of it, but that doesn't benefit me in the slightest, so there's very nearly no situation in which that would be the optimal decision.

 

[ryai458]

No, because if I died I couldn't enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling of saving someones life.

 

[Cymen]

Call me a bad person but...screw them!
I know it's wrong and survival instinct is no excuse because I would deny my own humanity but...I can't see me sacrificing myself for others.
GlaDOS was right about me T_T

 

[Varanfan9]

No for you see... I AM A CHILD *dun dun duuuuun*
Op: No. I worked hard to get my seat I will live on.
captcha: Ransla 8000. You're getting close to an internet meme there.

 

[MrShadowzs]

why can't they sit on my lap?

 

[Stammer]

Admittedly I'd have a really difficult time giving up my own life for a stranger. I'd like to say yes, but in practice the answer would probably be no.

 

[dragonflygirl]

speaking as a woman if the other woman was hotter then me then HELL NO

 

[Sticky Squid]

No, I'm still technically a child and I believe in gender equality so there is no reason for a woman to get the seat before me.
I would let her have it if she was pregnant though.

 

[Stammer]

why can't they sit on my lap?

Weight and instability issues with the lifeboat. You'd risk killing every single person on the boat if you did that.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

Nope, I got there first, my seat, same goes for public transportation which is basicly the same.

If I felt like it the woman and child could probably sit on my lap, the more the merrier

Women gave up that right when they asked for equal treatment. Equal is equal right?

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[ZeroDotZero]

Rather live with survivor guilt than not live at all. Chivalry is simply self-depracation turned sexism.

 

[theheroofaction]

Survival goes above morality, it goes even further over sexism.

 

[MrShadowzs]

why can't they sit on my lap?

Weight and instability issues with the lifeboat. You'd risk killing every single person on the boat if you did that.

...well then, yes i think i would give up my seat, i would probably think that was stupid later, but i could see myself doing it

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Last week was the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. According to passenger logs, 74% of women and 52% of children on board survived, but only 7% of the men did. The Titanic Memorial in Washington D.C. commends the men "Who gave their lives nobly to save women and children."

What happens if you'd give it up to save other men?

Or if you're a woman?

 

[Jonluw]

I would for children. Of that I am fairly certain.
I don't know about women though. My borderline suicidality might lead me to give up my seat to anyone I figure needs it more than me.

 

[kgpspyguy]

I wouldn't even have to think about it, if it meant saving a child I would swim.

 

[LaughingAtlas]

I'm pretty sure I'd have gone down with the ship, doing something stupid at a life-threatening moment, like trying to get any musicians to play "the ship's going down" as they fled the vessel or looking for the Captain so I could nail his feet to the deck. If by then I'm not dead, there are still life boats, and I get there before the very last survivors when there's not room for them, I'd offer them my seat and some advice: "Jesus was late for a boat once, so he had to walk on water. (I kid you not, that's the reason I got from the gospel of John of Jesus walking on water; tardiness) Try to move a tad quicker next time," man, woman, or child.