A house containing your two children and a number of other children is on fire. The children are caught in the house and cannot rescue themselves. You have the possibility of getting into the house just once and rescuing some children before the entire house and its contents crashed down into flames.

1) Would you attempt to access to house to rescue some children?

2) Which children would you attempt to rescue first? Your children or just any children? Why?

huxley:


A house containing your two children and a number of other children is on fire.  

The children are caught in the house and cannot rescue themselves.

You have the possibility of getting into the house just once and  rescuing some children before  the entire house and its contents crashed down into flames.

1) Would you attempt to access to house to rescue some children?

2) Which children would you attempt to rescue first?  Your children or just any children?  Why?

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1) Would you attempt to access to house to rescue some children?

Answer

>> Yes

2) Which children would you attempt to rescue first?  Your children or just any children?  Why?

Answer

>> Subconsciously? My children first, mainly due to the obvious fact that I have a father-child relationship with them

Isnt that what any other father will do for his child.

Having said that, until the bridge is crossed and situation accessed, cant say for certain what my action(s) will be

Maybe the administrator should create a new section on philosophy? 

Both questions are intended to force one to place a value upon one life above the other; Q1 - the risk of losing your life while attempting to save others. (Are you a qualified and trained fireman?) and Q2 a choice of a life of a child over another (a life that you can neither make nor should morally or ethically be allowed to take)

I don't know what I would do out of impulse, but IMO, I will
1. Call for Fire Services.
2. Get into the House.
3. Save the most nearby children, but keep an eye out for my own
4. Repeat 2 and 3 based on increasing carnage and collapse-probability of the building  (until Fire services arrive)

Before you scream at #3 above, would YOU indeed pass a burning child (or burning children) and leave him/her/them burning because you are "looking for your own"?