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View Poll Results: Which would you choose ?
Choice #1: ten will die so that everyone else can live 11 39.29%
Choice #2: take the chance that everyone lives or dies 17 60.71%
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Default 01-14-2004, 01:21 AM

Choice one:
The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few.
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 01:24 AM

I'd put up the ten to meet their maker.

"One dead is a tragedy, one million deaths is a statistic."
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 03:47 AM

i too would sacrifice the 10, but how are the 10 who die determined? is it just luck or do i, the leader, choose?
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 03:56 AM

I'll make the 10 die so the rest of us lives. I'll divide the people into 10 groups consisting of 10 people and do short sticks.
The person who draws out the short stick will have someone say to him in an umpire style "UUUUURRRR OUT!!!!!....."
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 09:18 AM

If you choose #1, everyone has ~9.9% chances of being "chosen". It's luck
or a lack of ... biggrin:
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 09:58 AM

Depends on the people i'm with...

Take a sure thing over a risk...


  
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Default 01-14-2004, 11:20 AM

My motto is "no one get's left behind", besides 7-3 are good odds, better than we had at Midway.
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 11:40 AM

i couldnt make the choice of the 10 ppl to die...

so i'd probably take the risk.
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 12:15 PM

If it were below 50% I would consider it, but 70% is worth a shot, long as we get to die in style...
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 12:38 PM

Yeah this is tough. If I knew and were friends with the 100 people, then I probalbly would take the chance for everyone to live.
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 01:37 PM

Statistically, ten dead is a better option. If the situation played itself out 10 times, then the 70/30 situation would lead to three times (roughly) more casualties - 100 dead vs 303.

Personally, 70/30 odds are good enough for me and I would chance it.
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 01:43 PM

let the ten die
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 03:33 PM

Well, depending on the circumstances, I would let the ten die.
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 04:42 PM

Only if i get to choose the ten.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
  
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Default 01-14-2004, 05:19 PM

id go with nuimber 2, since we all could live. if you did number one, for the rest of your life you would regret it and wonder what if i took number 2 and we all lived....?
  
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