Chivalry. A poll for the fellas.

[desflood]

On the same token... what if there was a single father who has a child.... would then a women be expected to give up her seat?

If I knew there was a single dad who needed to get home... my kids have a good dad here. I'd give up my seat for that guy.

[mrose31]

To be honest I would not give up my seat for a stranger no matter who it was. For a child I might give up my own seat but not sure. For just about anyone in my immediate family i would give up my seat in a heart beat. This brings to mind another question I always think about for some strange reason. Would you sacrifice you or wife/husband or child to save the lives of others. Like would you sacrifice yourself if you saved 100 people you don't know. What about a 1000 or even a million. May make me a bad person but I don't think I would. Maybe if I could save a million I would sacrifice my self but I don't think there is any amount of people that I would save if I had to sacrifice my wife or daughter.

[Duncan21]

i would give it up for a child. and im not sure if i would give it up for a woman its one of those questions were you really have to be in that situation to find out. i doubt i would give it up for an old woman though cause she could dies in a few months anyway.

[Pregnant Bitch]

My fat ass needs to be saved first. And I require my own boat.

[ALVAREZ6]

Pack the life boats like mexicans. Then everyone's happy.



In all seriousness, I have no idea what I'd do. If it's just a stranger woman, that. I'm saving my ass. I'd have a hard time sacrificing my life for a woman that I don't know. Children, on the other hand, I would budge for.

It also depends how old I were to be at the moment. If it happened to me right now, then that, I want to live my life. But If I were in my 50's, then yeah I'd let a woman sit. Now if it were to save my family members, I'd do anything. I have way more respect for my family than strangers. I'd take a bullet for anyone in my family.

[ALVAREZ6]

No question. I would give my seat to any other person regardless of age or sex.

A 99 year old woman with breathing tubes and an air hole in her trachea, that would probably die even if she went on the boat?

[Bob Lanier]

'em all. Absolutely not, and anyone who would is an idiot.

[Guru of Nothing]

Depends on whether or not I go to heaven.

[baseline bum]

The "revolving doors" thread got me thinking. When the anic went down, 80% of the men died. The notion of "Women and Children first" was a dominant part of our culture at the time. Moving ahead to present times, if you were on a ship that was going down, would you surrender your seat in the lifeboat to a woman and go down with the ship simply because she is a woman?

I'd surely give up my seat to a child. But for a Woman, I'm not so sure.

I'd give up my seat for neither of them. , I'd kick a woman, child, man, baby, cripple, whatever, overboard and take his seat. Oh yeah, and I'd throw Jim overboard first. I won't apologize for caring about myself over some other person I've never met and have no attachments to.

[atlfan25]

every man, woman, and infantile for themselves

[Kori Ellis]

every man, woman, and infantile for themselves

So you wouldn't give up your seat for a fat baby that needed a seat of his own?

[atlfan25]

no

[timvp]

If you can vote, you can swim.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

So you wouldn't give up your seat for a fat baby that needed a seat of his own?

I think he meant "infantile" as in a childish mofo otherwise he would have said infant

[Jimcs50]

Oh yeah, and I'd throw Jim overboard first. I won't apologize for caring about myself over some other person I've never met and have no attachments to.

I would drag your ass with me, and stand on your shoulders.

[Solid D]

In theory, more women and children can get in a lifeboat (size, weight)...thus more are spared from drowning.

I normally give up my seat in a waiting room, if all seats are taken and a woman enters the room. I will also move to a different seat if I'm opening up seats together so that a couple or family can sit together.

[T Park]

Fair enough. But lets say it's some snooty rich lady who strolls up with a bottle of Dom Perignon in one hand, and her pink poodle in the other. You still givin up that seat?

drowns.


No, Im kidding. I'd give it up, because shes still a lady. One poster says I'm an idiot, so be it.


I like TIMVP's saying though

[JoeChalupa]

I always give up my seat to a lady because I too was raised that way.

[Marklar MM]

As long as she leaves the Dom Perignon and the poodle with you.