[JMM] In a life or death situation, would you save yourself or someone you loved? Why?
I hate this question.
I would like to say I am both that magnanimous of a person, as well as having the strength of conviction to say that I would most certainly throw myself in front of a bullet to say someone I cared about, but I’m sorry to say that despite my male status, I am not the one with the balls in the Malone family. Those would be my sisters. There’s a reason why I work in the coroners office and not the ones carrying the gun.
It would be fairly easy for me to say here, under no certain threat of death, that I would take the bullet to save someone I care about. They’re just words on a page after all, and there’s no impetus to put them to the test and see if I really will. So I think the safest way to answer this question is I don’t know.
Look, I was a paramedic. And I’m a coroner now. I know what bullets do to people. I know the various ways people can die. I know myself well enough to know that I’m enough of a coward to beg for my own life should that situation happen. I would own that cowardice, and I would feel a horrendous amount of guilt regarding it once the moment have passed.
However, this could also go the other way, and I could prove to be a great hero and save the life of the person I care about most. However-in all probability, it would most likely go the other way.
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I would like to say I am both that magnanimous of a person, as well as having the strength of conviction to say that I would most certainly throw myself in front of a bullet to say someone I cared about, but I’m sorry to say that despite my male status, I am not the one with the balls in the Malone family. Those would be my sisters. There’s a reason why I work in the coroners office and not the ones carrying the gun.
It would be fairly easy for me to say here, under no certain threat of death, that I would take the bullet to save someone I care about. They’re just words on a page after all, and there’s no impetus to put them to the test and see if I really will. So I think the safest way to answer this question is I don’t know.
Look, I was a paramedic. And I’m a coroner now. I know what bullets do to people. I know the various ways people can die. I know myself well enough to know that I’m enough of a coward to beg for my own life should that situation happen. I would own that cowardice, and I would feel a horrendous amount of guilt regarding it once the moment have passed.
However, this could also go the other way, and I could prove to be a great hero and save the life of the person I care about most. However-in all probability, it would most likely go the other way.
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