Which one would you save and WHY?

Canada
April 24, 2009 6:18pm CST
Ok, most of you know that I like hypothetical situations, so here we go again. Tonight will be the end of the world as you know it. You are about to enter a building that is ablaze with fire. In that building are your mom, your best friend, a baby who is unknown to you, and your significant other. You can only save one of them. Whichever one you choose, you two will be the only humans left on earth to start the earth over. You will be given a set of instructions by GOD and he will tell you what to do. Pick wisely as you will be spending most of the rest of your life with this person. You need someone who is confident and you can depend on for help. Or are you the confident one and could survive with someone less.? Who do you choose and why?
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@apples99 (6556)
• United States
25 Apr 09
Oh my goodness this is a hard one well um let me think I would choose my mom but I would feel extremely bad that I could not save all of the people in the burning building, because if I could save everyone I defintly would, are you sure we cant pick everyone? but anyway here's the reason I would chose my mom, shes my confidant shes been there for me though some pretty rough times shes just a great person to be around she always makes me and others around her laugh, so if it really was the end of the world she most likely would be trying to make me and everyone around her feel better, with that being said, as it stands right now I dont have a significant other yet, so if something like that were to happen for real I wouldnt have to choose between him and my family, and as for the baby my mom would most likely try to save the baby her self so, so if I saved my mom the baby would be saved too, and its the end of the world anyway so none of us would live long anyway.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
26 Apr 09
The best answer!
• Canada
25 Apr 09
Hi apples99..A very nice answer indeed. It shows the respect you have for your mom. Maybe you can get away with stuffing the baby in your pocket til you get out..But I guess thats against the rules.
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@tzaddi (395)
• Philippines
25 Apr 09
i think i'll have to choose my significant other..ü i mean i love my mom and she would probably understand my decision..ü basically to revive the human kind..ü
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• Canada
25 Apr 09
Im sure you will save one, once it gets too hot in there...
@tzaddi (395)
• Philippines
25 Apr 09
or i'll stay inside and all of us would die..ü
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
24 Apr 09
I would choose my husband because I love him too much to let him perish and because I know without a doubt that he would choose to save me. Since he's 61, though, and I'm over 50 those instructions had better include some other way than giving birth and raising the new population of humans ourselves because we've already been there and done that. We ain't doing it again willingly!
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• Canada
24 Apr 09
I hear ya..I would save my hubby too but as you said, I hope the instructions come complete with a new Adam and Eve or whatever, cause Im not doing it!!
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
25 Apr 09
Oh, that is a tricky situation but since it is a hypothetical situation, I can answer it in my unique way. You didn't say that the friend is a female or a male, or the baby is a male or female. so, here is my options; I can choose my mum: Well, since I will be the only male in this world who would be bearing a responsibility of increasing my species, even though I will save my mum, the purpose will not be solved. So, it is difficult but for the sake of world, I can't choose my mum. Friend(male): this can also not fulfil the need, as we can't have babies together. Friend (female): I would like to choose this person, this is the best person to choose for the rest of my life. Baby (boy): No chance. Baby(girl) : if the friend is a male one, then i would go for this little baby, as she would be a little help in increasing the population. What is significant other?
• Canada
25 Apr 09
Hi sanadoodoo..ofcourse it is a tricky question...I was bored last night I see you spent a lot of time figuring it out. Now what If God had some different instructions in mind and maybe he brought someone else to repopulate the world and really he wanted you for something else. Then you could have your mom or a wise male friend and it wouldnt matter....Are you confused now. The significant other is the GF you dont have right now..
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@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
24 Apr 09
It would have to be my significant other hands down. I would miss them too much and by saving them we could try re-populate the earth, which might be fun
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• Canada
24 Apr 09
But dont forget, GOD is holding the instructions...he might tell you to have no s*x with your significant other and send "Adam" to keep her company..Wouldnt you be out of luck!
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@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
24 Apr 09
Adam would have no chance
@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
25 Apr 09
Hi Sands, well let me go too hypothetical. since there would be only one out of the ones given an option and I myself and I am to start the Earth afresh. My mom is cancelled and rejected. Let her be there, My friend too is given up for he would not serve the purpose. The baby is too small to cope up with me. the only soul left now is the Significant Other. Yes I would save her only. there would be none. She and I and the open sky. The pleasant breeze ruffles her hair and I grow large and the ocean deep feeling for her would well up and she is in my arms and up above the sky the moon hides its face in coyness and my vegetable love grow vaster than the English Empire and rain drops falls on her lips and my ignited passion knows no bound and two souls mingle into one breath. thousand of my children go way ward and build new empires and the Earth is once again vibrant with lives and and I mend my virginity for another fire.
• Canada
25 Apr 09
Hi Rajib... "me thinks the lady doth protest too much" For when she is caught up in the heat of passion, just her and you under the sky so blue, with the gentle breezes, as two breaths become one, she suddenly realizes that she may be creating 1000 more little shakespeares and opts to burn in the heat of the fire instead! Im sorry, Im just kidding but couldnt resist..Such a beautiful answer you wrote!
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@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
25 Apr 09
Hi Sands, Why sorry man? ( man is universalised ) yap! the lady would opt to be burned? Mo way because we are like the two legs of a campus. while one leg stands in the centre the other revolves round that and we are not separated at all. She would be a proud mother of 1000 sibling surpassing the record of 100 sons of Dhritarastra in the "Mahabharata". he he he he. how was the hypothetical answer?
@CHORES (229)
• China
25 Apr 09
To tell you the truth,I want to choose my husband by first thought.For we could do what Adam and Eve have done. But then,Ichange my mind.I think I will choose my best friends.Being with them can help me overcome the disaster like the end of the world.At the same time, we can do something creative, such as creating a whole new world of homosexual,green peace and kindness. Hoever, if my best friend is my husband,that will be wondful!
• Canada
25 Apr 09
My husband is my best friend so I would have no problem...
@docipain (135)
• Germany
25 Apr 09
I think I wouldn't save anyone..I would also just stay in that burning building and die. The point is that I guess I couldn't bear with the fact that I only could save one person in that building and probably only saved my significant one to not to be a badass for the future of the human being.....no no... there must be a reason why it's the end of the world. I don't see a reason to have the righr to change the decision mother nature made. I am not believing in god but I also don't want to play god like that. Sorry mum, sorry best friend, sorry baby..and sorry my dear..we will all die in there!:/
• Canada
25 Apr 09
Ouch! I couldnt do that. I would have to save someone. I would feel worse if I didnt at least try. Remember God is waiting with a set of instructions so there must have been a reason this happened. It would have been in his plan for me to live, so I have to do my part and save another.