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I would save the mother first because without the mother the child will be an orphan. The mother may grieve for her child, but she can always conceive another child.

Have you noticed how the flight attendants remind mothers to put the oxygen mask on themselves first and then their children?

posted by Wild_Grace on February 11, 2008 at 6:03 PM | link to this | reply

Most certainly not a choice I would want to make

posted by bel_1965 on January 27, 2007 at 6:57 AM | link to this | reply

it's a quick deision, most people try to help.

posted by star4sky5 on January 26, 2007 at 6:36 PM | link to this | reply

I wouldn't help them

if it would endanger my life, because I have two kids to take care of. But, if I could help someone without causing myself fatal injury, I certainly would.

posted by Flumpystalls3000 on January 23, 2007 at 7:06 PM | link to this | reply

I'm not sure what you mean. Is your question grammatical? Is there a

typo that you could fix? Or am I just dense today?

posted by _Decshak on January 21, 2007 at 10:48 AM | link to this | reply

Straightforward

Actually such acts are spontaneous and nobody can foretell as to what one would do when faced with such a situation. Thoughts are absent,and only the spirit takes over in times of great danger, and it is a superior decision than any mental thinking.

posted by Bhaskar.ing on January 21, 2007 at 9:02 AM | link to this | reply

Straightforward,

I would save both if it were within my capacity to do so. But if no choice is given, then I would rather save the mother (because the mother can have another child.)

posted by richinstore on January 19, 2007 at 12:29 AM | link to this | reply

You're probably correct. One does whatever one does in such situations by

impulse

posted by Straightforward on January 18, 2007 at 8:58 AM | link to this | reply

I need more details before I can answer...

A boyfriend once asked me what I would do if he and my mother were both in a pit with deadly snakes.  There's no right answer to such a question.

posted by Pat_B on January 17, 2007 at 11:04 AM | link to this | reply