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Caroline (urbanspaceman) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-11-21 18:29:00
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Current mood:...

Morality + Logic = Wank
YouThink.com seems to contain a plethora of spooge. This time it's in the Question Forum.

wolf_boy asks A billion dollars and a baby are about to fall into a volcano. You can only save one of them. Which do you save? Almost everyone says the baby, except wolf_boy blasts the thread with "COLD HARD LOGIC", wherein you could save the money therefore having the potential of saving thousands. UncleLaughie thinks he's full of shit.
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[info]rachelmap
2004-11-21 09:39 am UTC (link)
Would it be wanky for me to go post: "That depends. What's in the baby's diaper?"

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(no subject) - [info]ahiru, 2004-11-21 03:57 pm UTC

[info]backfromspace
2004-11-21 10:00 am UTC (link)
It won't stop future babies from falling into volcanos.

Line of the night right there.

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[info]greekhoop
2004-11-21 10:42 am UTC (link)
I see that if I chose to save the money, I would get to keep it. If I saved the baby... would I have to keep that, too?

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(no subject) - [info]squib, 2004-11-21 12:00 pm UTC

[info]zannechaos
2004-11-21 10:49 am UTC (link)
Money. There's too many people on the planet already, whereas the cash could be put toward conservation restoration. ^_^

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(no subject) - [info]lemone, 2004-11-21 06:18 pm UTC

[info]squib
2004-11-21 12:07 pm UTC (link)
What if there is a nuclear bomb about to go off in central New York, there is a remote that can stop it, but it is about to fall into a volcano, but oh oh, there is also a baby falling into the volcano in the other direction, you can save one but not both... what do you do?

WTF?

Because no amount of lives could *possibly* be worth losing even one baybeeee. *is afraid*

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(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-11-21 02:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]psychofangirl, 2004-11-21 03:12 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bubosquared, 2004-11-21 03:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]greekhoop, 2004-11-21 10:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bubosquared, 2004-11-22 01:44 pm UTC

[info]psychofangirl
2004-11-21 03:10 pm UTC (link)
Would I be a bad person for saying I'd save a billion dollars? I mean, I'd feel bad for the baby, but it's a BILLION DOLLARS.

That's assuming I get to keep it, eh?

Honestly, I don't know. No two babies are the same. You can make more money, but if you "make" another baby, it's just not the same. *shrugs*

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(no subject) - [info]winterfalls, 2004-11-21 04:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]elle, 2004-11-22 12:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-11-22 12:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]psychofangirl, 2004-11-22 01:19 am UTC

[info]sarajayechan
2004-11-21 03:45 pm UTC (link)
1. I'd figure out a way to save both. Then I'd return the kid to its parents and ask why the hell they were leaving it around a volcano.

2. I'd save the kid and get a bigass cash reward from its parents. XD

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(no subject) - [info]luckdragonfujur, 2004-11-21 10:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bubosquared, 2004-11-23 05:45 pm UTC

[info]ahiru
2004-11-21 04:02 pm UTC (link)
But why was the baby falling into the volcano in the first place? Maybe its parents were sacrificing the baby to appease the volcano gods and by saving it you've incurred their wrath and the volcano will erupt, killing you, the baby and the residents of many small coastal villages with pretty beaches and lots of cocnuts. Then you'd wish you'd saved the money and bought the parents a new and better baby.

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(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-11-21 10:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]greekhoop, 2004-11-21 10:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-22 04:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]greekhoop, 2004-11-22 04:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-22 04:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-22 04:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]arielchan, 2004-11-22 06:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-11-22 02:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-22 02:57 pm UTC

[info]fuzzytowers
2004-11-21 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I love the guilt question that wolf-boy asks: How much money do you all spend on entertainment every year?

Do we know if the baby is going to grow up to cure cancer when it grows up? Because if the baby is going to cure cancer and shit, we should save The Baby for sure. That would make The Baby better than all those evul Play Stations.

Yeah.

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[info]greenglass
2004-11-21 04:57 pm UTC (link)
I'd save the the money. There is no shortage of babies. That woudl also be one less screaming infant that I would have to listen to when I go to a R rated midnight movie, which seems to attract parents who let their children cry through the whole movie.

Cna't you tell I'm not a motherly person?

Besides, if I wanted a baby, I'd just have sex. I can't have sex and legally get a billion dollars. Hehe.

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[info]wankprophet
2004-11-21 05:49 pm UTC (link)
I glanced through their Questions forum...eesh. My favorite so far? Is there a movie you would like to change the ending of?. It is the question for all those people who didn't know the damned Titanic sunk in real life (and want Leo DiCaprio to live for godonlyknows what reason), for those who wanted Thelma and Louise to live happily ever after in separate cells at some federal correctional facility, for those who think Rick and Ilsa should have opened up a porn store together in Amsterdam or something, for the people that think that the Alamo should have had a 25th reunion of survivors, for the people who didn't want the hobbits to go home again (poor Rosie), plus those people who don't realize that Mel Gibson is an actor, not a old-timey Scottish rebel, and who think Roots should have been a happy-go-lucky portrayal of slavery's effects, or the ones who think the inevitable annihilation of the human race in '12 Monkeys' was just "anticlimatic".... Though I do like the one who thinks Jesus should have died in a car crash in "The Passion of Christ," with Judas struggling to save him. But, of course, there's always someone who actually needs to ask if the person is joking.

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(no subject) - [info]isntitironic, 2004-11-21 05:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wankprophet, 2004-11-21 06:04 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]backfromspace, 2004-11-22 09:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]livingadream, 2004-11-21 06:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]isntitironic, 2004-11-22 01:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-22 04:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]backfromspace, 2004-11-22 09:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]krazycat, 2004-11-23 01:26 am UTC

[info]lemone
2004-11-21 06:25 pm UTC (link)
*waves giant banner 'o love of money*

I'd save the money, then be like "Ok time to get that damn kid. WHERE'S it's parents anywho?" Only to find it already gone. I'd feel stupid, and guilty (with reason) and then I'd pretend I never even saw the kid, and that I had the money the whole time, as I ran off to get my own Swiss bank account.

Unless it was my own kid. I guess I'd kinda be a jerk if I didn't save my own kid first.

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[info]afuna
2004-11-21 07:14 pm UTC (link)
I'd move the volcano.

More seriously though, I hope that I never have to make that kind of decision, ever. In fact, I'd rather not make any kind of decision at all.

... damn, I really can't stay serious for more than one sentence at a time.

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[info]twocorpses
2004-11-21 07:16 pm UTC (link)
stapler: I will save half the money and half of the baby.
*estella*: Top or bottom half?
stapler: The TOP! all of the bad stuff comes out of the bottom.

HAHAHA

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[info]alpheratz
2004-11-21 10:40 pm UTC (link)
It may just be me, but I hate these over-the-top, dramatic "what if" scenarios.

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(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-22 04:18 am UTC
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[info]geekmagirl
2004-11-21 11:46 pm UTC (link)
Is it wrong of me to want people to add 'babies falling into volcanoes' as an interest?

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(no subject) - [info]twocorpses, 2004-11-22 12:55 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]geekmagirl, 2004-11-22 05:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jaig, 2004-11-22 10:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-22 04:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]geekmagirl, 2004-11-22 05:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]blue_linnet, 2004-11-22 08:03 am UTC

[info]pfeffermuse
2004-11-22 01:03 am UTC (link)
I'd save the money. The kid would already be toasted in the fall (and besides, there won't be any evidence anyway).

Pepper

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[info]eljuno
2004-11-22 02:06 am UTC (link)
With a billion dollars, you could BUY another baby.

Maybe even two.

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[info]chaimonkey
2004-11-22 04:54 am UTC (link)
This reminds me of an awful motivational speaker my school hired (which I, consequently, slept through).

He had some horrid story about a father who worked a lifting railroad bridge, and his kid was playing around and got caught in the gears right when a passenger train was coming. So he either pulls the gear to drop the bridge and crushes his kid, or saves the kid and watches as a train full of people crashes into the river.

I don't know how it ended, I was more interested in the hot threesome I was having in dreamland...

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(no subject) - [info]pragmatic, 2004-11-22 06:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chaimonkey, 2004-11-22 06:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kalika_maxwell, 2004-11-22 09:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chaimonkey, 2004-11-22 11:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2004-11-22 08:47 pm UTC

[info]blue_linnet
2004-11-22 08:05 am UTC (link)
If the world would find out, then I'd save the baby, thus getting lauded for saving the chilllllldren, and hopefully will get rich in there somewhere.

If nobody will ever find out, then I'll take the cash.

(I love these ridiculous hypotheticals, if only because people respond to them in rather amusing manners.)

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[info]backfromspace
2004-11-22 09:18 am UTC (link)
Going back, it now occurs to me to wonder. What the hell was I doing on the edge of the caldera of an erupting volcano? Especially with a baby and a billion dollars?

How would you carry a billion dollars, anyway?

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(no subject) - [info]apoplexia, 2004-11-22 11:33 am UTC
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meshou
2004-11-22 03:10 pm UTC (link)
I'd save the billion. Especially since this is contingent on being kidnapped, taken to a volcano, and being taunted by a supervillian with a baby/ money dangling device. If that were to happen, I'd figure taking the billion would be the least weird thing that happened that day.

Of course if you were talking about an actual situation of immediate evil vs eventual good that would require me not being a total spaz and getting lots of jewelry, and a house, and a helicopter, and penguins? Gotta go with the baby.

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[info]sarracenia
2004-11-22 04:36 pm UTC (link)
You know, I think the next villain I create will have a little side hobby of presenting these sort of scenarios to random people. Not for any particular reason, just because he enjoys it. And the hero will kill him partially because "You're the reason I have to put up with the damn impossible dilemma stories? Die!" *cutslashslashfightdie*

...I think I need coffee.

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[info]teratologist
2004-11-23 01:45 am UTC (link)
Sadly, both a baby and a billion dollars are probably heavy enough to make me trip and fall into the volcano myself. So for my own safety, I'll go with trying to catch part of the billion dollars.

Unless the billion dollars is in the form of a check payable to cash. Then I could catch the whole thing. Or if the baby were a really tiny preemie, in which case I'd be greatful to the volcano for swallowing it up, because things that small and dependent scare the everloving shit out of me.

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[info]rogue
2004-11-23 03:01 am UTC (link)
Well.

Why are we falling into a valcano? Who's baby is it? Who's money is it? Is anyone watching me?

'Cuz I'd probably save the money.

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