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For my Children without a doubt....anyone else, I would like to think so but until put in that position....can't really say I agree.  me2 |
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Very good question, Mirror. I honestly can't say what would happen in any given situation. Most people want to think they could, but they would never know unless they were faced with a situation like that and found out just how strong their own survival instinct is. I don't believe it would be your own survival instinct that would be the issue. It is a matter of being able to sacrifice of yourself in order to protect or promote someone's interests instead of your own. This doesn't even have to be a life threatening incident to be tough for some people. ~shrugs~ Perhaps. But, can you say, with 100% certainty, that you would put yourself into a situation where you KNOW you would lose your own life, but save another?? Like I said...many people would like to think so. But I don't think anyone can be 100% certain they would. If it's someone's children, then I would say yes. But the question didn't specify children. I answered the question in the way it was asked. @ Pink Lady That's not necessarily true. The survival instinct in humans does not leave time for any kind of thought. Whether a person wants to think so or not, their first reaction is almost always going to be to protect themselves. The thinking would come in ( although it would be a VERY short thought process ) when they realize that they want to protect the other person first. Not so, and yes I can say this with certainty at least in my case. I have a scar on the back of my leg where I caught a rebound 38 slug pushing someone out of the way of a robber at a quick stop...wrong place wrong time...but I lived it might not have gone that way but for certain the other person would have died at that range. But you are right about instinct telling you what to do but instinct does not always tell you to protect yourself. |
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Very good question, Mirror. I honestly can't say what would happen in any given situation. Most people want to think they could, but they would never know unless they were faced with a situation like that and found out just how strong their own survival instinct is. I agree 100%. There honestly is no way to know until you are in that situation. |
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 Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you |
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i have already given my life for someone i love my kids and in the way i mean is i live for my kids.
Shur i could drop them and do what i always wanted to do but my life is not mine anymore its theirs so in some sense i gave my life for them. |
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yes. it absolutely is.
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Very good question, Mirror. I honestly can't say what would happen in any given situation. Most people want to think they could, but they would never know unless they were faced with a situation like that and found out just how strong their own survival instinct is. I don't believe it would be your own survival instinct that would be the issue. It is a matter of being able to sacrifice of yourself in order to protect or promote someone's interests instead of your own. This doesn't even have to be a life threatening incident to be tough for some people. ~shrugs~ Perhaps. But, can you say, with 100% certainty, that you would put yourself into a situation where you KNOW you would lose your own life, but save another?? Like I said...many people would like to think so. But I don't think anyone can be 100% certain they would. If it's someone's children, then I would say yes. But the question didn't specify children. I answered the question in the way it was asked. @ Pink Lady That's not necessarily true. The survival instinct in humans does not leave time for any kind of thought. Whether a person wants to think so or not, their first reaction is almost always going to be to protect themselves. The thinking would come in ( although it would be a VERY short thought process ) when they realize that they want to protect the other person first. Not so, and yes I can say this with certainty at least in my case. I have a scar on the back of my leg where I caught a rebound 38 slug pushing someone out of the way of a robber at a quick stop...wrong place wrong time...but I lived it might not have gone that way but for certain the other person would have died at that range. But you are right about instinct telling you what to do but instinct does not always tell you to protect yourself. But that would mean that you have been in that kind of situation. My response ws based on those who have not been exposed to that type of situation. Until it happens, no one can really know with 100% certainty. You have been faced with that kind of thing, and you know what your reaction was. Therefore, what happened to you doesn't apply to my response to the question. |
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For my Children without a doubt....anyone else, I would like to think so but until put in that position....can't really say I think for my kids it would be instinctive...for anyone else, I MIGHT but probably it would require thought above instinct. |
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