Child or Spouse?

[NeoSeminole]

oh please! As if the emasculating jokes from the female posters about guys b*tching and having PMS are unique. Now where's my sammich, woman?

[IndiReloaded]

Make sure you get to the end, Neo:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbg_DwnUHI"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]

[bluesummer]

I know it sounds awful, but I think the guy made the best decision. He could rescue his wife, or risk the lives of him, his wife, AND his son. Three deaths instead of one.

I hope I NEVER have a decision like that to make. I feel horrible for the family and especially for the Dad.

[NeoSeminole]

Hey Indi,

[IndiReloaded]

I didn't know the mom was driving the car. That's a hella lot of guilt. They'll be replaying that decision for the rest of their lives. Sad.

@ Neo - Wow, posting a vid in response to mine. Still looking for that first-ever original thought, are you?

PS - my video was funnier than yours too.

[doppelgaenger]

So what we're doing here is basically measuring the value of each of our loved ones lives? Hypothetical or otherwise?

What a depressing thread.

Word, Starbs.

I can't imagine having to make that decision. I don't even want to think about it.

[Sanctuary]

I think everyone should learn how to swim in case a freak accident like this happens.

Gribble's hypothetical is like a twist on Sophie's Choice but not as difficult. I'd save my kid of course.

[Cbrider]

The logical answer to this whole charade was just not drive off the road.

[doppelgaenger]

Anybody notice that only the women are getting spanked for choosing their child over their spouse?

Why is that?

Why? I'll tell you why. Do you think a guy wants to hear about how his ass is going to get dropped like a fat man on Nagasaki?

Some of you have some seriously twisted morals. You think abortion is ok, yet you'd kill your husband to save your child's life? Another question - what good does it do to have solutions about hypothetical situations? It's one thing to say "Oh now, I assure you I would do this and that!" It's another to bear the misfortune of a lost child or lover. I hope you realize this

[Cbrider]

No one is killing anyone or anything close to it. Someone posed a question and people responded honestly. Everyone gets bent out of shape to try and show their e-dominance by belittling other posters.

We're kind of a sad sack-o-shit around here some days.

[Heratriumphant]

Why? I'll tell you why. Do you think a guy wants to hear about how his ass is going to get dropped like a fat man on Nagasaki?

Okay, but two men here gave the exact same answer and no one said a word to them.

Survival of offspring is a biological imperative, so really any good mammal is going to pick it's young over it's mate...it's kind of the whole reason we're here.

[qwertz]

And you have no f*cking clue what it means to be a father.

Seriously, between you and Vash, (especially Vash), I've gotten extremely disturbed about women's regard for their husbands, especially after they have children.

Point is, not only do you not know what it's like to be a father, you will never know, could never know. So you mothers out there can take your mother cards and shove 'em.

Both parents feel the same equal amount of love towards their child(usually) it makes no difference whether you look at it from mother or father point of view, you are still a parent.
Therefore, until you are actually a mother or a father most people cannot give an opinion based on emotion as you just havnt experienced the feelings of what it is like to be a parent.

I find it quite amusing that you can write what you did above and your not even a father. Believe me, your thoughts will change if/when you have children.

[Gribble]

My, my, my. What a shitstorm.

If you read that article you'd know it stressed the difficulty of the decision. Do you save your child or do you save your spouse? The article got me thinking. Beyond that--and beyond an interesting story--it is immaterial.

If I had to save one or the other I would save my child without hesitation. I don't think it's a difficult decision at all. Like Hera said, biological imperative. I would hope my wife would do the same.

Solutions to hypothetical questions, Dopple, are good for satisfying one's curiosity. I was curious what others thought so I asked. Simple as that.

[Junket]

Because Gribble is the only one smart enough to appreciate the feelings associated with pushing something larger than a sperm squirt or daily dump out of one's body.

Gribble has rarely expressed (so rarely that I can't recall otherwise) any regard for any entity that wasn't carrying some part of his DNA.

[Gribble]

Hey! That isn't true at all. I love my parrot like nobody's business. Pretty sure he isn't carrying my DNA.