Originally Posted by
automorphism
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You know that movie Dante's peak? Anyway there are these people in a boat and they're going across an acidic lake. The boat is dissolving and someone has to get out to push it the rest of the way or everyone is going to die, but chances are if you jump in the lake to push the boat you're going to die or get severely wounded.
The difference between my best buddy and my girlfriend would be if my buddy and I were in the boat together alone, we would draw straws to see who has to jump in the lake. If it were my girlfriend with me, I'd jump in the lake before she had a chance to react and push the boat to shore. See that's the difference.
Here's another one. Say we're trapped in a room and a bomb is about to go off in ten seconds, and theres a way out but it will take a minute to get out to safety away from the blast radius, but if one person stays they can hold down a button that will make it blow up in a minute instead of ten seconds.
The difference between my best buddy and my girlfriend would be that we would flip a coin to see who has to stay behind, but if I was with my girlfriend then I would stay behind, but she wouldn't leave either because there's no way to jump in the lake first like the previous example, so we would probably both be blown up unless I could convince her to go, but I dunno if I could convince her to go...cause she would never convince me to go. Whereas with a friend I if I got lucky with the coin I'd cry, say goodbye, and run.
These are assuming there's no other solution...otherwise I might try to defuse the bomb but that doesn't apply, it's hypothetical.