• Question: If there was a bomb and and you could save yourself or save a city which would you save?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      anon answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      I’m trying to imagine a situation where this would happen. If it’s enough explosive to blow up a city, jumping on it won’t really do anything! The scenario I’ve come up with is that you’d have to jump into some machinery to cause it to jam and stop the bomb exploding?
      Although I’d like to think I’d save the city, I think I’d probably save myself. We’re genetically programmed with a “fight or flight” mechanism, which means that if we don’t think we have any chance of winning the fight, we’ll run away.
      Luckily, as I’m not batman, I don’t think I’ll ever have to worry about this!

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      Lynne Thomas answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      I think it is impossible to know how you will react until you end up in a situation like this. I’d like to think that I’d be brave enough to save the city but I’d probably just freeze and so save noone!

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      Daren Fearon answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Since this is a hypothetical situation, I assume I can have a hypothetical bat-copter, pick the bomb up, whisk it out to sea and eject from my bat-copter before it explodes. Right?

      Like Lynne and Jenny, I would like to think that I am so selfless that I would save a city over myself but we have evolved a “fight or flight” response which means I would probably run away. You never know until you are in this situation though and some people have done pretty amazing things in similar situations.

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      Phillip Manning answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      ‘The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few”

      Science Officer Spock

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