Who would you save, your mother or your father?

@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
• 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.
@LordSims (140)
• United States
23 Sep 08
I would also save my mum. I don't have kids, I'm a teen, but I'm sure it will be a hard choice between them too.
@quinnkl (1667)
• United States
22 Sep 08
I couldn't choose. I would do what I could (throw them both down with myself in front, or tear of the bullet proof vest, give to one and throw myself in front of the other, etc) to save them both. It would be an impossible situation for me.
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
23 Sep 08
I would save my mother; I have two kids and I know what kind of pain she felt when she had me. My father only had pleasure.hehe.
@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.
• 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.
@ramangill (1479)
• India
21 Sep 08
aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i cant answer that.
• 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