How far would you go to protect your
loved ones? An impossible question...
The world is at war and the United
States has been invaded. Thousands of enemy soldiers have neared your
hometown and you've heard many stories of these soldiers raping women
and torturing and/or killing everyone.
Yourself, your spouse, your children
and about 30 of your neighbors have taken shelter in the basement of
a nearby home just as you all hear several trucks arrive on the
street outside. Dozens of soldiers armed with assault rifles begin
searching all of the homes on that block, looking for anyone they can
find. Most of the 30 or so people with you are unarmed so fighting
the soldiers would only end in a massacre...but the trapdoor to your
basement hideaway has been expertly crafted and well hidden so as
long as everyone in your group remains totally quiet, you will not be
found. At that moment a baby in your group begins to cry. The baby is
approx 6 months old and the parents cannot be found as one of the men
in your group found the baby abandoned in a car just before the
soldiers arrived. Efforts to silence the child only agitate it
further and the baby begins to scream.
At that moment you are all faced with
a dilemma and you must decide quickly. If the soldiers hear the
childs' screams they will likely kill, rape or torture everyone in
the basement and you have only seconds to decide...could you be the
one to walk over to the screaming child, place your hand over it's
mouth & nose and smother it to save yourself, your family and the
other 30 or so people in your group?
The results? When I first wrote this
about a month ago, I used Facebook to ask this question to 25 mothers
and 25 fathers (not the same couples) and you may or may not be
surprised by the answers.
Only 3 of the fathers stated that
they could indeed suffocate the baby; the other 22 dads said that
they would be unable to do it and thus allow the rape and or murder
of themselves and their families.
Only 1 of the mothers that I asked
stated that she would be incapable of suffocating the baby. Most of
the other 24 moms stated that they wouldn't hesitate; if it was their
child versus another, then although it would be a terribly horrible
thing, they would do it in a "heartbeat" to protect their
babies. I quote one mom as saying "Fuck'm, nobody's hurting my
children."
I recently joined the prepper
movement and constructed this moral dilemma out of sheer curiosity.
Men have always been vaulted as being protectors of the family but
now I have my doubts.
How far would you go?
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