Imagine a man breaking into your house. He hears you calling the police. But, since the nearest town is far away, the police cannot arrive in less than fifteen minutes.
The man orders you to open the safe in which you hoard your gold. He threatens that, unless he gets the gold in the next five minutes, he will start shooting your children, one by one.
What is it rational for you to do? You need to answer fast.
You quickly realise that it wouldn’t be rational to give this man the gold. The man knows that, if he simply takes the gold, either you or your children could tell the police what he looked like as well as the make and number of the car in which he drives away. So there is a great risk that, if he gets the gold, he will kill you and your children before he drives away.
Since it would be irrational to give this man the gold, should you ignore his threat? This will also be irrational. There is a great risk that he will kill one of your children, to make you believe his threat that, unless he gets the gold, he will kill your other children.
What should you do?
In a blink of an eye I’d let him have all the gold he can cary while praying for our lives be spared!
Homelessness is better with my children than a mention without them around me!
I can be emotional; when I say emotional I mean emotional!!!
if he’s gonna shoot anyway, I distract him in some way, leap through the air and tackle him, wrastle the gun away, shoot his penis.
Caddymob; what is wrong with you?? Just because a desperado breaks into your home and threatens to kill your children, if you don’t open the safe. There is simply no excuse for shooting him in penis!
It appears the dyslexic fool left out ‘the’ at the end of his last post… Wanted Proof reader. Must get on well with simpletons. SE can we not edit our comments?
English Cad – I’m sorry, you break in to my home, threaten to kill my children and take my gold? No fuck you, you’re leaving here without your penis. Killing you would be merciful. Shooting off your penis will hurt and remind you for the rest of your life. But hey, I live in Arizona, that’s how we do it out west, yeee haw!
I would open the safe. Having a lousy memory would probably work to my advantage in this situation. By the time I remembered the combination and the safe was opened my kids would have run screaming out of the house and be in my car driving away. Or the man would have shot me in utter frustration.
Caddymob; so dinner is out of the question then?
Eh, buy me a drink first…
Tell your children to avert their eyes and cover their ears. Pull your own gun you keep to rightfully defend yourself & family. Shoot the robber dead & call the authorities. Revel in the fact that the dead scumbag will never be able to terrorize another family and tax payers will not have to pay for his food, shelter, education and health care while he sits in jail.