Poll Which one you will try to save?10%chance alive kid or 60%chance adult. (30 votes)
You can only save one,even they die there will no responsible to you.
You can only save one,even they die there will no responsible to you.
Assuming I know nothing about the people I'm saving, the only rational answer is to save the adult. What we are actually trying to do is maximise the amount the saved person will positively contribute to society, since we know nothing about either, if we assume the average citizen has a net positive impact on society, this amounts to maximising the number of years the saved person is contributing for. If we say that the average person is contributing between ages 25-65, if we opt to save the kid the expected number of contributing years added is 4. If we opt to save the adult, roughly approximating the age of the average adult to be 45, we add an expected 12 years.
So opting to save the adult has an expected desirably impact of three times that of opting to save the kid. Only a sociopath would opt to save the kid.
The kid since the kid hasn't lived his life yet and deserves to have a chance, even if a small one, to experience more of it.
The adult has already lived a good chunk of his/her life. That's how I weighed it.
@shaladue: Lmao
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