Dilemma....the raft...
 

....you find yourself in a situation where you are on a raft stranded at sea with raft-eating sharks chasing you.... on this raft are 10 other people...all 10 people and yourself are covering holes in the raft with their bodies to prevent water from entering the raft...you calculate that if you stay and help paddle on this raft with the others you will manage to travel fast enough to get away from the sharks for three times as long than if you were not there to paddle and help fill in the holes.....

...suddenly, you see your friend on a motor boat (that sharks cannot eat) who offers to you to get on and flee to safety....there is only enough fuel to carry two people...what do you do...?



Note that there is no way to adapt the raft to be powered by the lifeboat and save everyone, either you save yourself for sure or triple the likelihood of escaping the sharks for 10 people....assume that all of the people including yourself are naked with no items that are capable of filling in the holes even whilst you're away

Do I know any of the people on the raft or are they randomers?

i put the people on the first

I'd get on, but do i know the people on the raft, that would make it trickier
but if there was a child on the raft, id let them on the boat

I'd get on

Ohhhhhhhhhh difficult, I'd be thinking about my kids but at the end of the day I don't think I could just leave those people so I reckon I'd stay, I wouldn't be able to live with myself otherwise

you have not made it clear ammi,
if you stay will you all get to safty

Why did you burn the raft, Walt?

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I'd imagine you're taking a gamble if you stay

the answer is to all get in the boat,

..I think we'll probably assume that they're random people..

That's against the rules :nono:

..yes..if you stay the raft will travel three times faster than the sharks..

no its not niamh:joker:
dont make me put you in that boat,

..that isn't an option..it's only a two man boat..

OK if they are random people I would save myself.

Yeah, am selfish :laugh:

..it is against the rules Sheriff..this is my town now..you play by my rules..

clearly these idiots should also have friends with speedboats, so they can perish

that will work on the boys but not a man like me:joker:
but i will be a team player and stay with the group so we all survive.

I'd paddle of course. I couldn't leave nine people to their grisly fates like that.

:eek: Evil Bastard!

i try to save you and this is how you thank me:bawling:

Sitting here in comfort, I would say and also hope, in that scenario, that I would do this, I would stay on the raft and help the others keep ahead of the sharks.

awww you've redeemed yourself with that, I knew you were a man of integrity

What if the speedboat had enough space for three people and the two people already on it were your friend and Beyonce?


I doubt you'd stay on a poxy raft then