House Fire Dilemma

[Xerographica]

You are surrounded by 10 houses that are on fire. Each house has a mother and her son, except for one house which has a woman pregnant with a boy. They are all strangers to you.
You only have time to save the occupant(s) of one house. Who do you save? Personally I'd probably save the 45 year old mother and her 25 year old son.

Is this dilemma moral or economic?

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

[Galloism]

Congratulations on giving the most shit take possible as reasoning on your choice.

Both from ethics and from a pure economic pragmatism standpoint.

[The Orwell Society]

You are surrounded by 10 houses that are on fire. Each house has a mother and her son, except for one house which has a woman pregnant with a boy. They are all strangers to you.
You only have time to save the occupant(s) of one house. Who do you save? Personally I'd probably save the 45 year old mother and her 25 year old son.

Is this dilemma moral or economic?

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

However, that random toddler may grow up to be a million times more important that that random adult. I'd say save the pregnant woman, however

[The Selkie]

When I was younger, I was part of the voluntary firefighters of the town I lived in. There was one thing they drilled into our heads repeatedly: Do not endanger yourself needlessly, unless you are very sure, that your heroics won't endanger other people or cause other problems.
Instead, call for help, preferably of the professionals. That also spares me from being sued due to failure to render assistance.
So, my reply would be: I'd call the fire department.

[Russeja]

You are surrounded by 10 houses that are on fire. Each house has a mother and her son, except for one house which has a woman pregnant with a boy. They are all strangers to you.
You only have time to save the occupant(s) of one house. Who do you save? Personally I'd probably save the 45 year old mother and her 25 year old son.

Is this dilemma moral or economic?

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

However, that random toddler may grow up to be a million times more important that that random adult. I'd say save the pregnant woman, however

Toddler still needs to be brought up and raised, and he/she will most likely grow up to be a normal person.
While an adult is already formed and most likely still the same normal person.

[Reploid Productions]

You are surrounded by 10 houses that are on fire. Each house has a mother and her son, except for one house which has a woman pregnant with a boy. They are all strangers to you.
You only have time to save the occupant(s) of one house. Who do you save? Personally I'd probably save the 45 year old mother and her 25 year old son.

Is this dilemma moral or economic?

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

If there's 10 houses on fire, that means there's a giant honking brushfire in the area and that I evacuated at least an hour prior after running around the neighborhood banging on all 10 doors to alert the neighbors to the incoming fire threat so they could evacuate as well.

Source: Been there, done that. Twice.

Hypotheticals need to be at least vaguely plausible to mean anything.

[Xerographica]

You are surrounded by 10 houses that are on fire. Each house has a mother and her son, except for one house which has a woman pregnant with a boy. They are all strangers to you.
You only have time to save the occupant(s) of one house. Who do you save? Personally I'd probably save the 45 year old mother and her 25 year old son.

Is this dilemma moral or economic?

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

However, that random toddler may grow up to be a million times more important that that random adult. I'd say save the pregnant woman, however

Chances are really good that society has invested way more in that random adult than in that random toddler.

[The Orwell Society]

You are surrounded by 10 houses that are on fire. Each house has a mother and her son, except for one house which has a woman pregnant with a boy. They are all strangers to you.
You only have time to save the occupant(s) of one house. Who do you save? Personally I'd probably save the 45 year old mother and her 25 year old son.

Is this dilemma moral or economic?

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

If there's 10 houses on fire, that means there's a giant honking brushfire in the area and that I evacuated at least an hour prior after running around the neighborhood banging on all 10 doors to alert the neighbors to the incoming fire threat so they could evacuate as well.

Source: Been there, done that. Twice.

Hypotheticals need to be at least vaguely plausible to mean anything.

Wowza. She has a brain :/

[The Orwell Society]

However, that random toddler may grow up to be a million times more important that that random adult. I'd say save the pregnant woman, however

Chances are really good that society has invested way more in that random adult than in that random toddler.

You do know that not everything is about money, right?

[FNU]

This whole dilemma is just the trolley problem with a different skin, only change being both options require you to put yourself in harms way. Call the authorities and leave it to them or just save yourself.

[Thermodolia]

You are surrounded by 10 houses that are on fire. Each house has a mother and her son, except for one house which has a woman pregnant with a boy. They are all strangers to you.
You only have time to save the occupant(s) of one house. Who do you save? Personally I'd probably save the 45 year old mother and her 25 year old son.

Is this dilemma moral or economic?

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

If there's 10 houses on fire, that means there's a giant honking brushfire in the area and that I evacuated at least an hour prior after running around the neighborhood banging on all 10 doors to alert the neighbors to the incoming fire threat so they could evacuate as well.

Source: Been there, done that. Twice.

Hypotheticals need to be at least vaguely plausible to mean anything.

This. If there’s 10 houses on fire I won’t be in that area

[Xerographica]

Chances are really good that society has invested way more in that random adult than in that random toddler.

You do know that not everything is about money, right?

A random adult is more useful to society than a random toddler.

[Senkaku]

If there's enough time for me to save the occupants of a house, there's definitely enough time for the occupants of all the houses to escape on their own, since I'm not a firefighter.

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

Why are you so weird?

[The Orwell Society]

If there's enough time for me to save the occupants of a house, there's definitely enough time for the occupants of all the houses to escape on their own, since I'm not a firefighter.

Personally I think it's an economic dilemma as people of different ages are unequally valuable. A random toddler is less valuable to me than a random adult.

Why are you so weird?

wEiRd ShOuLd NoT bE uSeD aS aN iNsUlT, yOu PoLkA-dOtTeD cAmEl

[Reploid Productions]

If there's enough time for me to save the occupants of a house, there's definitely enough time for the occupants of all the houses to escape on their own, since I'm not a firefighter.


Why are you so weird?

wEiRd ShOuLd NoT bE uSeD aS aN iNsUlT, yOu PoLkA-dOtTeD cAmEl

How about we both knock off the flamebait before I have to flag down one of my colleagues?

[Heloin]

I stop the fire with the power of donations.

[Dumb Ideologies]

I would consider rescuing a person only after deducing the relative value of the fire by communicating with it through smoke signals to establish whether it supports facilitating micropayments on the forums of nationstates dot net

[Thermodolia]

I stop the fire with the power of donations.

For a second I thought you said detonations which while it would stop the fire, it wouldn’t leave many left alive

[Hamidiye]

The one I am closest to and have the best chances to actually make it...provided I'd actually consider the odds sufficient not to get hurt myself. Without a decent chance to make it out myself alife there's no point after all. My own life is vastly more important than yours or that of any other arsehole after all.

[The Two Jerseys]

Save none of them.

If they can't get themselves out, then I sure as hell can't get in...

[Dumb Ideologies]

I stop the fire with the power of donations.

For a second I thought you said detonations which while it would stop the fire, it wouldn’t leave many left alive

Great news, this will make our dilemma much easier.

[Heloin]

For a second I thought you said detonations which while it would stop the fire, it wouldn’t leave many left alive

Great news, this will make our dilemma much easier.

How much do I have to donate to level the neighbourhood with cluster munitions?

[Mestovakia]

This whole trolley problem only works if we didn't start the fire

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

[Eahland]

Spoiler: Xerographica thinks they've come up with a new way to sneak up on the topic of voting with money that will get us all to agree that it's the best before we realize what we're agreeing to.

[Ifreann]

Why am I keeping track of the ages of all my neighbours? Am I some kind of stalker? Did I start these fires?