Who's it Gonna Be? The RMS Titanic.

[shiroy]

The Story:

Aboard the RMS Titanic you find yourself on the upper deck walking around aimlessly in the cold drinking a cup of hot coca. Suddenly you hear a splash and quickly look over the railing of the boat. Puzzled you see that all of the lifeboats are rowing away from the ship with a few passengers in each. You yell down to the nearest boat and say...

“Hey!? Where are you going!? What is going on!?”

Someone from the boat shouts up to you...

“The ship is sinking save yourself! There is only ONE boat left to your right! Hurry!”

You run to the boat and find yourself followed by a very unusual group of passengers who also heard the message.

The Situation:

The liner is sinking at a steady yet rapid pace. There is ONE lifeboat left. Unfortunately, there is room in the boat for only EIGHT passengers. There are THIRTEEN passengers waiting hopefully and patiently to get in the last boat.

The Questions:

Who will you allow in the boat to live?
AND
Who will you not allow in the boat to die?

What to Post in this Thread:

It is your decision who leaves and who stays. You are in possession of the last lifeboat and the passengers have agreed to trust in and follow through with your judgement.

Pick EIGHT passengers from the following lists of people and explain why you choose to let those people live. For the FIVE left behind indicate why you chose them to die.

Yes, you count as ONE passenger if you pick yourself and then... you don't have to.

The Passengers:

* The Captain of the RMS Titanic
* An HIV Positive Girl
* An Sixteen Year Old Boy
* A Rare Ownerless Russian Wolf Hound $$$
* Your Favorite Grandparent
* The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
* A Now Widowed Mother and Her New Born Baby
* Your Best Friend
* A little Five Year Old Girl
* The President of the United States of America
* A One Legged Man in a Wheel Chair
* A Crooked Billionaire
* YOU

What are you going to do?

Think About it.

[Princess Modrea]

I would leave:
Captain of the RMS Titanic, because the captain goes down with his ship.
HIV positive girl- because she has HIV, and may not have much time left.
The Pope of the Catholic Church - God chose this for him.
The President of the USA - He deserves it.
The wolf hound - The dog isn't worth money unless it can breed.


* An Sixteen Year Old Boy - Young guy can row for us.
* Your Favorite Grandparent - I just can't leave a loved one to die.
* A Now Widowed Mother and Her New Born Baby - This poor woman has see so much, only to die. And her baby has potental.
* Your Best Friend - Even tho, she drives me crazy, I would be lost without her.
* A little Five Year Old Girl - She has her whole life ahead of her.
* A One Legged Man in a Wheel Chair - This man has seen so much strife already.
* A Crooked Billionaire - Could be crooked in my favour.
* YOU - There's no reason to make these decisions if I'm not coming too.
now, you are probably going to tell me that I've made the wrong decisions because of some character flaws in the people or that they wanted to die or that they still die anyways. Or you are going to predict my personality.

[shiroy]

No, I had no intent of administering a personality test. I played an ethics game similar to this in a religion class and I was wondering what the populus thinks. It was really fun in class because we argued forever about why this and that person needed to die.

Oddly enough most of them agreed that the HIV positie girl needed to live even if she only had a few days to live. Hmm?

[Mod)Zergraptor(]

* The Captain of the RMS Titanic-let him die with his ship it is the honourable way
* An HIV Positive Girl-I'll let her die too she'll be going on to a better place sooner then later
* An Sixteen Year Old Boy- save him he's only 16
* A Rare Ownerless Russian Wolf Hound $$$-a wolf? pssh
* Your Favorite Grandparent-old? Very old my grandparents are so old can't talk to them. gg
* The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church-save him cause many depend on him
* A Now Widowed Mother and Her New Born Baby-save cause they have some much to live for
* Your Best Friend-save too cause best friend.
* A little Five Year Old Girl-save cause ya long life
* The President of the United States of America-Bush? Let him die
* A One Legged Man in a Wheel Chair-sorry
* A Crooked Billionaire-your crooked

[xingba]

good one lets see....

my quick pick:
who is getting on that boat (in no particular order):

* The Captain of the RMS Titanic (someone needs to take the blame)
* An HIV Positive Girl
* An Sixteen Year Old Boy (he lucked out)
* Your Favorite Grandparent (I love grandma)
* A Now Widowed Mother and Her New Born Baby
* Your Best Friend
* A little Five Year Old Girl
* A One Legged Man in a Wheel Chair (how is he gonna fit? but i have room)

Thats right folks I'm staying behind. I'll help in anyway that I can. Make rafts, make sure all women and children have abonded ship, etc.

[shiroy]

Well, you can comfort the folks but you's all gonna die! There is only one lifeboat and the ship is sinking quickly.

[Mod)Zergraptor(]

You could stay til the last possible second and then get into the boat.

[xingba]

nah death is inevitable. it is a part of life, however the time and cause of death is a different story.

comforting who? I'm not gonna say everything is gonna be alright. "Get the heck off the ship! Abandon ship now!" =P

guess I've always considered myself a good soldier so interpret this when I say; death in battle is honorable.

[shiroy]

Heh, death... greater love has no one than he who lays his life down for another.