How Valuable Is Your Life To You?

[piscator]

One must accept one's mortality stoically...

...Maybe with calm conviction and a bullet too?

[Blind groper]

The suggestion you must die to save someone else is kinda ridiculous. Much more to the point is to live our life in such a way as to help or save others.

I would be unlikely to let myself die to save others, but I know because I have done it, that I am willing to risk my life to save others. Quite a different thing.

My philosophy is that there is no heaven/hell/afterlife. We each have one life. Value it.

[laklak]

Depends. The kids sure, Mrs. Lak maybe, depends on how nice she's been to me recently. Anybody else, fuck it, sucks to be them.

[Seth]

The suggestion you must die to save someone else is kinda ridiculous. Much more to the point is to live our life in such a way as to help or save others.

I would be unlikely to let myself die to save others, but I know because I have done it, that I am willing to risk my life to save others. Quite a different thing.

My philosophy is that there is no heaven/hell/afterlife. We each have one life. Value it.

Um, my philosophy is not to die for my country, it's to make the other guy die for his.

[MrJonno]

I would sacrifice anyone with the exception of my cats and possibly my wife to stay alive.

[piscator]

The suggestion you must die to save someone else is kinda ridiculous. Much more to the point is to live our life in such a way as to help or save others.

I would be unlikely to let myself die to save others, but I know because I have done it, that I am willing to risk my life to save others. Quite a different thing.

My philosophy is that there is no heaven/hell/afterlife. We each have one life. Value it.

Um, my philosophy is not to die for my country, it's to make the other guy die for his.

Not a very complete philosophy, but if it's enough for you, who am I to pick nits?

[Seth]

I would sacrifice anyone with the exception of my cats and possibly my wife to stay alive.

Good luck with that Mr. Unarmed.

[Seth]

The suggestion you must die to save someone else is kinda ridiculous. Much more to the point is to live our life in such a way as to help or save others.

I would be unlikely to let myself die to save others, but I know because I have done it, that I am willing to risk my life to save others. Quite a different thing.

My philosophy is that there is no heaven/hell/afterlife. We each have one life. Value it.

Um, my philosophy is not to die for my country, it's to make the other guy die for his.

Not a very complete philosophy, but if it's enough for you, who am I to pick nits?

It's only the salient part of my overall philosophy.

[Ian]

About $900k, according to various term and whole life insurance policies.

[piscator]

The suggestion you must die to save someone else is kinda ridiculous. Much more to the point is to live our life in such a way as to help or save others.

I would be unlikely to let myself die to save others, but I know because I have done it, that I am willing to risk my life to save others. Quite a different thing.

My philosophy is that there is no heaven/hell/afterlife. We each have one life. Value it.

Um, my philosophy is not to die for my country, it's to make the other guy die for his.

Not a very complete philosophy, but if it's enough for you, who am I to pick nits?

It's only the salient part of my overall philosophy.

Oh. My apologies.

[Seth]

The suggestion you must die to save someone else is kinda ridiculous. Much more to the point is to live our life in such a way as to help or save others.

I would be unlikely to let myself die to save others, but I know because I have done it, that I am willing to risk my life to save others. Quite a different thing.

My philosophy is that there is no heaven/hell/afterlife. We each have one life. Value it.

Um, my philosophy is not to die for my country, it's to make the other guy die for his.

Not a very complete philosophy, but if it's enough for you, who am I to pick nits?

It's only the salient part of my overall philosophy.

Oh. My apologies.

Por nada.

[MrJonno]

I would sacrifice anyone with the exception of my cats and possibly my wife to stay alive.

Good luck with that Mr. Unarmed.

I'm sure I can find a few toddlers or babies to sacrifice somewhere. No firearms required

[Seth]

I would sacrifice anyone with the exception of my cats and possibly my wife to stay alive.

Good luck with that Mr. Unarmed.

I'm sure I can find a few toddlers or babies to sacrifice somewhere. No firearms required

Yah. That sounds about right for a useless parasite. The good news is that others won't put up with that sort of behavior and will simply off you with whatever comes to hand, like a rock or a stick. No firearms required.

[Animavore]

If you could save two people by doing away with yourself then would you? what if you could save one person and their dog?

I don't know about the first question, but I would never ever put an animal above myself or another human. I don't care if the choice was between saving a trailer full of 500 (or part thereof) of the last species of something on the planet or pulling the human from the cab before the truck topples off the cliff. I will always pick the human.

With the caveat that there may be some humans I know who are exceptions or that I might have a little sad if an unknown human I've saved turns out to be a piece of shit.

[mistermack]

It's not often that people get enough time to think, when that kind of dilemma crops up.

Given enough time to chew it over, I might sacrifice my life for one or more of my family. But given split seconds, I would probably look after number one.

As far as dogs go, I would happily let the fucking lot die, rather than risk stubbing my toe.

But if it was an amur leopard, I might save it in preference to a few dozen complete strangers. Or even a few hundred.
After all, there are just a few hundred amur leopards left. There are about seven billion humans.