You can only save one— who do you choose? - Doug MacKay

Duh you choose the one that asked you first.

First: Safety first. Second: First come first served.

Let the rich die. They would be lucky I wouldn't explode their ship myself

I would go with the 1st group. If they are losing oxygen rapidly every minute counts. Also they're closer.

The working class ship both has more people in it, and was the one whose emergency happened first. Ideally, a second ship would be available to save the rich ship, too, but in this scenario, the rich ship is out of luck. The limited resource of "help" had already been exhausted.

i was thinking of flipping a coin and letting god decide....i didn't realize it was the right answer

Thirty vs twenty?


Save the poor ones. You'll save more people.

None, and then take the loot.

I dont like them rich fucks.

To chose the lesser of two evils, I would pick the 30 people, since there are only 20 on the other and I would be saving more lives

I choose the workers because they are 30 in number. And the students are 20.
Save the greater number

I save the 30 workers first, then I save the 20 college students, then I'll have them fight eachother for entertainment.

I would choose the workers because if they really are not living good they might ahve families that would be very reliant on them and could be even worse off if the workers die the college kids thought it would haunt me it would probably haunt more then to think about the families that probably rely on the workers

Free labour so save the first one

We all know that its gonna be the rich ones: While the captain is taking a decition the president of Earth call saying that inside the cruiser its the son of some billonaire and if your dont save him, you would be sue and fired.

But like... Is the rich ship going directly into an asteroid? Because for what i know, in an asteriod belt, asteroids are pretty far away from each other.

I’d bomb the Pareto and save the workers. Eat the rich. If I captain a space ship, it will only be because I’m a pirate

flipping coin is dumping matters just to physics

Astroid belts are mostly empty space, the students will likely be fine if we save the workers first and then go for the students later.

Perfect situation to save nobody 😂😂😂😂jkjk

realistically is who has the better chances to succed, if a save need to be made and one has like 3% and the other is 80% be it 30 - 20 or the opposite doesn really matter because one can think is illogical to risk for such small odds, true right or wrong dont exist in this cases if we want to be truthfully is a loss regardless so i not about win but damage controll which change the problem drastically, and potential unlimited arguments can be done

First come first serve

I'm saving the construction guy chances are the rich guy is on the glorbo list (space epstein)

Save the workers an asteroid field is very wide

How many ritch parents willing do give me large sums of money for saving their children do the workers have?

One of the only ted videos I disagree about workers need more help and asteroid belts are mostly empty anyway

Make the Mallory 7 deploy a ship to the Telic 12 while the Pareto is saved by the transport

Another option to decide would be: who would feel more right to save?
In this specific case it seems like the workers would show the most gratitude. The people going on holiday may feel more entitled to be saved.

Still, in an irl similar situation the opposite may actually be chosen. The public cares more about a flight they could have taken themselves, than one of specific workers. So the outrage for one option would be bigger than for the other. We care more about things that feel closer to our own situation. The more we just look in our own bubbles, the more we'll choose the second option.

Try reading Marx. Maybe you stop asking pointless questions and ask why on one rich man there is a million poor.

"Captain, can you hear something? Like an alarm for a distress signal?"
"Must be the wind..."
"Alright, full speed ahead!"

The poor middle aged workers will likely experience less happiness for the rest of their lives because they aren't likely to gain more wealth, while the rich college students will likely experience more happiness because they probably will stay rich.

Choose the group you are most likely to save successfully?

You make an emotional decision. I know which I would pick. Then you use intellect to support your decision, there being sufficient leeway to argue for or against either possibility.

coin flip.

I would save the ship that i was assigned to save first, which is the one with the 30 middle aged workers. If I was assigned to save the 2nd ship before the middle aged workers ship, I would have saved that one

The first they are seemingly closer and in more need. An asteroid belt is very empty normally as space is very big. So the student can wait assuming their crew can't rigged sonething up.

The average distance between an asteroid belt is 600,000 to 1,000,000 kilometers in the asteroid belt