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Is a man who is too scared to help a damsel in distress a coward or a survivor - should we admire his self-preservation skills (from an evolutionary point of view),detest his weakness, or both?
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Is a man who is too scared to help a damsel in distress a coward or a survivor - should we admire his self-preservation skills or detest his weakness?
or both.Is a man who is too scared to help a damsel in distress a coward or a survivor
should we admire his self-preservation skills (from an evolutionary point of view),detest his weakness, or both?
And why can't I just sit there and listen to her screams? Or take part in the reason she is distressed?
Self preservation is rarely what we judge the moral worth of action on.Is a man who is too scared to help a damsel in distress a coward or a survivor - should we admire his self-preservation skills (from an evolutionary point of view),detest his weakness, or both?
Generalization and abstraction is the road to folly.Is a man who is too scared to help a damsel in distress a coward or a survivor - should we admire his self-preservation skills (from an evolutionary point of view),detest his weakness, or both?
support this pleaseGeneralization and abstraction is the road to folly.
remind me not to leave a child with you, at least not while gunpoints are around...This is the way I see it, I know it's over-logical for a decision you probably make in a split second, but I've thought about this often and have a system all figured out ( :rofl: ):
I think it's important to have these things figured out just in case...
If helping the person is, while dangerous or unpleasant, not life-threatning to me:
- always help, even if complete stranger or animal
If there's a chance that helping the person might be life threatening to me:
- help if it's a child
- help if it's a close friend
- help if it's a best friend or lover
- help if it's family
- (I'd probably help an animal, even though it makes no sense, I know)
If helping the person is very life threatening (like if someone has them at gunpoint):
- help if it's family
- help it's a best friend or lover
- help if it's a child
If person is me:
- HELP ME YOU COWARD!
I wouldn't risk my life for a complete stranger, for all I know they are a serial rapist... I also don't think it makes a difference if it's a man or a woman, people are people.
He or she is a lethal weapon and will kill when forced into a life/death situation with no way out.
:rofl:
this isn't the movies, most people know better and run. now that it is a lady and her honor is of course of the utmost importance i'll tell you how to handle the situation, talk off your immaculate white riding gloves and strike the cowardly miscreant while saying "dear rouge sir, i challenge you to a dual with musket or lance tomorrow at the rise of dawn, do be most promt" :rofl:
honestly any real 'lady' doesn't get in that situation, at the worst I've seen a lady stand up and say 'i'm not doing this here'. the point being both parties don't let it get that far.
i think if you were really a nihilist you wouldn't of bothered to make that post since it would be pointless...I am a nihlist. What do you think of me?
If a man who can't swim is watching a damsel drowning, his fear is well-founded.
The best he can do is drown himself too.
see in this ocasion their would have been no point in even trying