Debate What If...

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by stickmanmeyhem, Apr 6, 2009.

  1. stickmanmeyhem

    stickmanmeyhem Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    1,052
    Likes Received:
    0
    Your wife/girlfriend got pregnant, and only one of them (her or the baby) could be saved? Which would you save? You have to think about this carefully, think from both points of view.

    I got into this debate in school, and it lasted hours. I'm not going to tell you my opinion, I'm saving that for later... Just keep this in mind though, most of the girls you'd ask would say they'd want you to save the baby.
     
  2. FreshCherry

    FreshCherry Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    1,522
    Likes Received:
    1
    I would maybe save the baby, because you don't know what that baby could accomplish. It's a very hard desicion. If this happened in real life, I would get an abortion, if that saved my wife. The more the baby is in the wife's womb, the more you become attached to it.
    It all depends. I cannot decide since if is not really happening.
     
  3. RacoonSniper 13

    RacoonSniper 13 Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    379
    Likes Received:
    0
    I would choose to save my girlfriend. I think that the baby would be too much of a burden as a teen and it was just remind me of her.
     
  4. M.Jelleh

    M.Jelleh Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    2,711
    Likes Received:
    0
    I would have to say my girlfriend/wife because I will have already worked so hard for that relationship and we will have gone through things already and as amazing as a child would be, I couldn't lose someone that close to me.
     
  5. LOL zombie

    LOL zombie Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    1,082
    Likes Received:
    0
    Wife/Girlfriend... If it's just THAT baby, have more that won't kill her.
     
  6. Icecikle

    Icecikle Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    1,931
    Likes Received:
    2
    Well, I'm a girl, but if I hate to choose between my friend or her baby I would chose my friend because you can have another baby(possibly) but you couldn't get the person with the baby back.
     
  7. Azrius

    Azrius Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    351
    Likes Received:
    0
    This is essentially a hypothetical situationt used in arguments for/against abortion. The issue of whether the infants life is more 'sacred' and 'valuable' than the mother's.

    For me, it would depend on the circumstances I suppose- but I would lean towards saving the wife/girlfriend rather than the infant, simply because I've the relationship already established with her.
     
  8. Nitrous

    Nitrous Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    2,689
    Likes Received:
    1
    The girl. Whether or not it's the right thing to do isn't the issue. I don't have any emotional attachments to it and I see no reason why I'd choose the baby. Even if I knew it'd be best to save the baby I bet I could reason my way to not saving the baby.
     
  9. Glasgow

    Glasgow Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    2,639
    Likes Received:
    0
    Damn, I hate these questions. If I had a time machine, I would save them both.
     
  10. noklu

    noklu Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    1,227
    Likes Received:
    0
    Nitrous could reason his way out of anything. Even the destruction of the entire world.

    I wouldn't make the decision, duh. It's the girlfriend/wife's choice because it's her life and her baby. If anti-abortionists want to call that murder well whoop-de-doo who gives a damn what they think, anyway. You can't go through life without some "sin" so to speak.
     
  11. many popes

    many popes Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    567
    Likes Received:
    0
    I would save the girlfriend. Not only can you have another child but I think that growing up with one parent could be difficult for the child later on.
     
  12. iTz HLG nOob

    iTz HLG nOob Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    362
    Likes Received:
    0

    wow, your a girl, srry i could of guess u were a guy by your sigs, any way back on topic, sort of like someone said already, i would build a time machine, and save them both!
     
  13. makisupa007

    makisupa007 Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    946
    Likes Received:
    2
    Wife

    It's not even close. My wife would be the one I would choose. The baby has not experienced a single second of life and would not even notice the transition from pitch black womb to eternal sleep. Losing the baby would be a horrible trauma that, because she would still be around, my wife and I could go through together. A human being that has experienced life, built relationships, and can experience the fear of death should be saved. An unborn baby is not equal to, and definitely not greater than a fully developed human.

    All of that being said, I would have to listen to the wishes of my wife. If she was absolutely insistent that the baby should live instead of her I would have to respect her wishes. It's her body, her life, and her choice.
     
  14. stickmanmeyhem

    stickmanmeyhem Ancient
    Senior Member

    Messages:
    1,052
    Likes Received:
    0
    Okay, seeing as there are very few mixed opinions, I'm gonna share my answer soon...
    I'd give up the choice to my girlfriend/wife because I couldn't deal with the emotional stress of the situation on my own. Despite the fact many of you say you would have no emotional attachment to the baby before it's born, that's probably not true. That's why this is a hard question to answer. You'd need to be in that situation to actually know what you'd do.
     
  15. NUKEZILLA

    NUKEZILLA Ancient
    Banned

    Messages:
    194
    Likes Received:
    8
    none of them
    its like an instant
    _____________
    [RESET BUTTON]
     
    #15 NUKEZILLA, Apr 7, 2009
    Last edited: Apr 7, 2009
  16. The Spartan III

    The Spartan III Ancient
    Banned

    Messages:
    831
    Likes Received:
    0
    girl 100%. if i had to choose between being a single father, or adopting, i would choose adopt if i wanted a kid. i mean, imagine how guilty i would feel marrying another woman when the love of my life died. plus i dont know how the new women would treat the baby. honestly, it makes more sense to get her tubes tied off after the abortion and then adopting.
     

Share This Page