Would you volunteer to die

[Deleted]

Die for humanity and be immortalized for all of recorded history VS save yourself and then later die alone and unknown because your species doesn't exist anymore. That's a no-brainer. I choose immortality!

[Antipathy1018]

Screw that idea if history has taught use anything over the last 10,000 years or so is that humanity as a whole is not worth saving at all. The odds of us killing ourselves off grow greater every year that passes, and the advent of technological progress has only sped that up exponentially. As things stand now it is literally a game of Russian Roulette as to the survival of our species as a whole. I for one do not think humanity is able to evolve fast enough to keep up with our technological advances and if we last another 50 to 100 years it will be a certifiable miracle.

[Slant]

Everything has its time and everything dies.

Why you link that video! So fucking sad now...

[JamesMartigo]

Probably...

[Slant]

If a god came to me and said it is going to be either me or me AND every single other human, I'd volunteer.

Would be one heck of a dumbass god to ask that kind of question, really. That one is a no brainer.

[Slant]

Lets say the question is instead: Me now, or me and the rest if humanity in one week. I'd still volunteer.

Doesn't make the question any more difficult for me really. The real moral dilemma begins when you straight up ask Me vs. Everyone else.

I'd kill everyone else in a heartbeat. Every time.

[Slant]

Hell, make it: Me now, or entirety of human race non-fertile from now on, so that currently existing humans (me included) could live their days but no new humans were ever born or could be are artificially made.

It's a more interesting question. Goodbye human race, though. *waves happily*

[ItachiZaku]

Human race? No. Small group of people I know, probably. Probably doesn't even have to be people that respect me, but that I'm familiar with. Hero syndrome or some shit. Like, you never gave me the time of day, but watch as I face down death to save your unworthy asses.

[Vargulf the Happy Husky]

if it was all the way down to me and i could save all humans, yea sure.

[The Casualty]

If no one else's life would suffice and it meant humanity dying if I didn't? Yeah sure. That's a no-brainer. Granted, I would be doing it entirely for my family. The other 6 billion in change that I would be saving would be entirely incidental.

[Deleted]

Is the OP high? This sounds like a hypothetical stoner question

[IntellectuallyChallenged]

If it meant saving humanity? I would, without even having to think about it. Because I am not better or more important than anyone else. Which begs the question of why would my death be even remotely significant to the fate of humanity?

[Kio]

I was gonna comment but all the edge in this thread cut my fingers clean off.

Bunch of douche nozzles.

I don't get why people with differing opinions than yours are edgy. It's not even uncommon to be apathetic towards other people. Why do you think there are so many assholes in the world? Because they don't care about you.

[TwoNineMarine]

Yes.

Because it means my boys would survive. Well worth it.

[Deleted]

Propaganda must have heavily damaged a person to put themselves after humanity imo.

[Felnoire]

Doesn't this entire question depend entirely on the situation, as a fair few scenarios your death doesn't so much solve the problem as just prolong the lifespan of those who will still need to deal with it. In which case I'd not volunteer, I'd rather keep working to find a permanent solution. In scenarios where a permanent solution can only be achieved via a sacrifice, I'd probably still hedge my bets by trying to survive and achieve the goal desired. One will not go gentle into that good night.. >.>

[Ciddy]

Nah, there's bound to be someone else willing to do it instead.

As selfish as it sounds....same here. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are either more willing or have less to live for and just don't give a shit.

Now, if we were talking about some situation where I'm the single only person who can save the world, then yeah, I'd do it. At that point, it's down to two options:

1 - die along with everyone else when the world ends
2 - die but save the world + everyone else

Of course I'd go with option 2 if that were the case.

[Deleted]

Pretty much how I see it:

[Rascal Bob]

Well, in a lot of movies people die in a heroic way. Saving a lot of people.
I sometimes dream about such a scenario where I heroically throw my life away for the greater good.

Truth be told, In real life I'll probably chicken out and throw someone else into the volcano and hope it accepts a offering from its loyal servant.

[Zenfoldor]

So edgy!

A situation like this would never occur so it's pretty silly to debate.

Yeah, people should never debate hypothetical questions, it's silly.....OR, these are the funnest questions to debate, and the Internet was built on it exclusively.