CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States
There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Hypothetical Question About Seeing 8 Seconds Into the Future
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You're walking down the street, when suddenly you realize that you're able to see 8 seconds into the future. You round the corner, and in your brain you hear a neighbor laughing. A moment later, a neighbor laughs in the exact manner you heard in your head. You can see a ball rolling out in the middle of the street, and a child running after it. A moment later that exact thing happens.
This goes on for about an hour, and you begin to notice that, while you can see eight seconds into the future, it's not a definite future-- you can change things from happening the way you see them. You see yourself turning left at a stop sign when a speeder almost hits you and yells at you-- you instead decide to wait a second longer at the intersection, and the speeder goes right on through. Your friend flips a coin and it comes up heads in your vision; you reach out and catch the coin in midair, and it's tails. Since you can only see things 8 seconds into the future you don't have enough time to really plan anything elaborate to prevent what's going to happen, but it's just enough to interrupt things.
You're walking down the street and suddenly you have a vision that a five year old boy near you is about to get shot. However, he's going to be shot in the shoulder, or some place that won't be lethal; you can tell without any doubt that he'll survive the shooting. You have exactly enough time to jump in front of the boy and take the shot yourself. Knowing that it's a five year old that's going to be shot but that he will definitely survive it, yet not knowing if you yourself will survive it, do you take the bullet for the kid?
If no, would you for your own kid, even knowing there's no way they would die from it?
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with love from CRS @ 7:55 PM
1 Comments:
If the kid is going to be okay, you would do more good by letting him get hit and staying with him until proper help arrives. You don't really know the motivations behind the crime and if you take the bullet maybe the shooter will take another shot at the kid anyway. I mean, he's already shooting at a 5 year old, so it's not like an extra casualty is going to phase him. Maybe he really wants that boy dead.
Let the kid get shot and tackle the shooter, or just stay with the kid. Sure you won't get to look like a badass diving in front of a bullet front page of the news, but there's no reason to possibly exacerbate the situation when you already know the original outcome is favorable.
