Most everyone.
When your survival prognosis is in the 6 months to two year range you tend to look at the value (need?) of maintaining your own life differently.
Most everyone.
When your survival prognosis is in the 6 months to two year range you tend to look at the value (need?) of maintaining your own life differently.
"I honestly would give my life in most circumstances. The way I read the question was in an emergency setting. I would say countless, I'd save your life. I love my family tremendously but helping a person in a time of need, even if it means my life, is the right thing to do IMO."
This.
Also, if I was ever forced to be part of the military at war, I could never kill anyone. I'd refuse. I'd rather die.
1979 wrote:
"I honestly would give my life in most circumstances. The way I read the question was in an emergency setting. I would say countless, I'd save your life. I love my family tremendously but helping a person in a time of need, even if it means my life, is the right thing to do IMO."
This.
Also, if I was ever forced to be part of the military at war, I could never kill anyone. I'd refuse. I'd rather die.
That's two contradictory statements.
7.176 billion.
No greater love has a man than to lay down his life for another.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
If I was given an altimatum that either I die or another person would die, I would always choose death for myself first.
typical liberal hypocrisy wrote:
1979 wrote:"I honestly would give my life in most circumstances. The way I read the question was in an emergency setting. I would say countless, I'd save your life. I love my family tremendously but helping a person in a time of need, even if it means my life, is the right thing to do IMO."
This.
Also, if I was ever forced to be part of the military at war, I could never kill anyone. I'd refuse. I'd rather die.
That's two contradictory statements.
No it's not.
Nobody. I don't like anyone that much. I would be sad after they died though.
Honestly, none. That may be selfish, but I see myself having a lot to do in life. I'm still young, fit, and well educated. This will probably change as I age or have children. I don't want to say my life is worth more than others', but to me it is.
love this question. without hesitation, i'd say 5: my girlfriend, two friends, my grandma, my dad.
with a little more hesitation: 5 or 6 other friends.
don't have kids but i definitely would for them. possibly a few of my best friends. i want to think i could do it for anyone good and innocent. maybe. it depends on the nature of the sacrifice: stepping in front of a bullet, or just risking your life as a firefighter or law enforcement or something and happening to die?
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one"
Think about this the next time you want to "die" for someone. Dying doesn't accomplish anything. There is no guarantee people are "saved" when you die. Be a brave man, live strong, and fight to save people.
Virginia Runner wrote:
Honestly, none. That may be selfish, but I see myself having a lot to do in life. I'm still young, fit, and well educated. This will probably change as I age or have children. I don't want to say my life is worth more than others', but to me it is.
You sound incredibly full of yourself.
Sam W. wrote:
[What about a soldier who jumps on a hand grenade to save his buddies?
I already do this everytime I go to the bar with my buddies! It is actually easy to just JUMP on the fat chick (aka "GRENADE")which also SAVES a friend from a night of punching the munchkin so he can hook up with the grenade's hot friend.
afeads3345 wrote:
I honestly would give my life in most circumstances. The way I read the question was in an emergency setting. I would say countless, I'd save your life. I love my family tremendously but helping a person in a time of need, even if it means my life, is the right thing to do IMO.
Nonsense. You'd give up your life for a friend and then leave your family in the lurch? Just not true.
Here is a Biblical passage that touches on the subject...
ROMANS 5: 6-11
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! 10 For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
johnnylangenwanker wrote:
love this question. without hesitation, i'd say 5: my girlfriend, two friends, my grandma, my dad.
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Do you think your grandma and dad would be happy with your decision? Personally I would feel it was a terrible decision if my kid chose to die so I could live. If a parent died for me I would understand it and appreciate it.
This is a hypothetical, so yes there is a guarantee.
Hephaestus wrote:
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one"
Think about this the next time you want to "die" for someone. Dying doesn't accomplish anything. There is no guarantee people are "saved" when you die. Be a brave man, live strong, and fight to save people.
What does “give up your life” mean to you? To simply die would be oh so simple and easy; a weakling’s way out. Children may imagine these things. Are you a child? I have 3 granddaughters and have already given up my life for them. And will do it as needed, forever. “Giving up your life” may include testing blood glucose levels at 3am for 20 years (with the concomitant maximum of 3 hours sleep for those years), or simply giving all the money you made on the stock market to them, or, occasionally, having someone clean their house for them. Or buying them a house. So, just what is your “life” worth, to give?
Common easy answer. Now lets make it more difficult. Would you give up your life to save a stranger. No, OK how about a dozen strangers? 100 strangers? A city?
Another Lack of Date Point wrote:
Basically the same for me.
Four. My wife and three kids.
Let me clarify. To die so someone else wouldn't die. Now your answer please.
Rtype wrote:
What does “give up your life” mean to you? To simply die would be oh so simple and easy; a weakling’s way out. Children may imagine these things. Are you a child? I have 3 granddaughters and have already given up my life for them. And will do it as needed, forever. “Giving up your life” may include testing blood glucose levels at 3am for 20 years (with the concomitant maximum of 3 hours sleep for those years), or simply giving all the money you made on the stock market to them, or, occasionally, having someone clean their house for them. Or buying them a house. So, just what is your “life” worth, to give?
This is a good question. There's only one I'm positive about: My sister. Maybe also my mom, but I don't think she'd be very happy with that, because it'd probably be even more difficult for her to live on without one of her daughters. So probably only my sister.
Conundrum wrote:
Common easy answer. Now lets make it more difficult. Would you give up your life to save a stranger. No, OK how about a dozen strangers? 100 strangers? A city?
No, no, no, and probably.