What moral thing will you choose?

Well, morals are different depending on the society where you have been raised, so it's difficult to define real "morals". When you say "could kill the baby later", I see no obligation to kill the kid, as it's "could" and not "have to". In that case, I see no problem in silencing the baby so the group can be saved, and in the end the baby might survive too

Hello bingskee! That is a tough situation to be in and a tougher question to answer, when you're not in the actual situation. There are times that what we answer when a situation is not yet real would be far removed from our actual deed when the real situation crops up. Being a mother, i would certainly have second thoughts in putting my hand over the baby's mouth, even if it is meant to save the group from danger. However, if it is the rest of your family you're protecting from the criminals, and the baby's cry would most assuredly bring those criminals on, I think i would have no qualms in putting my hands on the baby's mouth. But being a mother, i know that mothers and babies have a bond that only they can sense. That's why, i am quite comfortable that should i be doing that to my own baby, he/she will surely sense the urgency of the situation and would quite down, so that i can just as swiftly remove my hands over his/her mouth. However, if i am not the mother of the child, i think the baby would still feel my reactions (hope and pray the baby will)and she/he would also quiet down, so that it won't be necessary for me to cover her/his mouth longer than necessary.

Dear Ms. Bingskee, This is a tough one to decide... First I cannot be a mother and so I am sure I cannot be as loving as her. They say that life is about survival. And if there is some loss that would save more lives, I dont find that impossible... it is this instinct that should force the mom or dad or anyone do the act of putting the hand on the baby's mouth... but we can take it away faster before the baby gets suffocated (I know the baby would scream out louder this time but maybe the other way too - it can sense the danger too and then stay silent)... But in either case, if anything bad happens, we would have none others but ourselves to blame for sure.

I am a mother too and this kind of situation is hard to decide what to do. If this happens to me, I'll do all I can to keep the baby quiet and I will pray unto God to save us that kind of situation.

Maybe I would just put a finger into the baby's mouth hoping that he would think there's milk for him. That should keep him quiet for awhile. :)

Well, logically, I think that a baby's cries can be heard over a hand...even if muffled. So, yes, I would do it. Not because I think it's necessarily the "right" way to go (I'm sure there are other possibilities that the quiz isn't offering for sake of reader interest), but because I have a particular personality type - INTJ. Suffice to say that I share this personality type with people like Ayn Rand, Hannibal Lecter, and General Ulysses Grant. I think that out of a group of randoms, I'm the most likely to be able to do something like that..besides, I wouldn't want anyone else to have to live with that guilt. I'd rather they just go on with their lives and hate me. Would there be any legal ramifications? Most likely...that's okay.

Though this is really a tough choice to have to make, I will admit that I would never be able to kill my own child. As a mother, I would much rather to be killed at the same time as my child was killed than to have to go through my life knowing that I had taken the life of my own child. In fact, if there was another person in the room that would put their hand over my child's mouth, I think that I would want to kill them.