Who would you save, your mother or your father?
By LordSims
@LordSims (140)
United States
September 21, 2008 7:57am CST
You are standing next to your mother and father. Two snipers are about to shoot them at the same time. You are wearing a bullet proof vest. You have enough time to save one. Which parent would you save?
9 responses
@fatmansmommy (751)
• United States
21 Sep 08
neither- i would tell them to just shoot me instead. there is no way that i could ever choose between my mother and father like that. i love them both dearly and they both deserve to live. i would definitely die for my parents if i had to.
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@sandra966 (269)
• Spain
21 Sep 08
No problem for me.
It would be my mum every time. My dad is a bit of a loser, and doesn't have much contact with me or my children, so no big decision for me!
If it were between two people I did love, for example, my two children, I think I would obviously try to save both, but if it were not possible, I think I would always try and save the younger one first.
When I took my second baby home from the hospital, I thought about this a lot. It dominated my waking thoughts for a while, until I just had to admit that sometimes you can't save everyone, and the fact that the older child was slightly older, meant that she had a better chance than the younger one.
Of course, nothing has happened to either child, but whereas protecting my first child was paramount before the birth of my second child, I needed time to realise that now the second child was needing me more than my other one.
@ms1323 (259)
• United States
22 Sep 08
My father, hands down -- and he's my step-father!
Even though my father has dementia and doesn't even remember who I am, he was/is a great man. My mom, on the other hand, is one of the most negative, life-draining people I've ever known.
So while my dad currently has nothing more to offer the world than a bright smile, it's still way more than my mom can give.
@churchofphilosophy (86)
• United States
21 Sep 08
This may sound a bit could but i would not save ethier one. I know that is what they would want. They told me that they would never want to be apart. I know that they would be happy in the afterlife together.
@RhythmWalker1 (825)
• United States
21 Sep 08
Actually, I hate answering a question like this but I will.
I guess it would be my mother because my fathers health is already
very bad and he is showing signs of dementia worse than her. They
are both over 75.
@chaijudin (506)
• Indonesia
21 Sep 08
i will take of my vest and walk like nothing happen because normally we can,t spot sniper , but you can told us here "two sniper" so , i believe they are unskilled sniper.
because they even dunno where to hide (you can told us how many of them).
and why i must wear vest because sniper clear enough to shoot our head right?
hahahah
no offense just joking.
no afraid man the sniper is newbie
hahaha