There’s a deadly virus - would you sacrifice yours or your child’s life to create a vaccine?

If it's the Last of Us. It's not a virus it's a fungus.

Fungus is actually one of the easier infections to avoid.

Would I be open to myself and my child assisting in the cure research, yes. She's still in the womb and is lined up for a gene study and donating her cord blood. Would I let them cut her up like sashimi, hell no. For starters research doesn't work like that and secondly, selfishly I care more about my child then I do about humanity. Perhaps if they'd shown themselves to be a little bit more worth saving....

My life? Yes my child’s life? Never

My own life, yes definitely without question.

The life of my little one and two year olds? Sorry human race but no fucking way 😅

I'm not brave. I'd be living in a cupboard somewhere ignoring the world, or dead in the first wave.

So, a moot point for lots of us.

It’s a hypothetical scenario based on a game/TV series

This is not how vaccines work though. Nobody has to die to develop a vaccine.

Yes to the first question, and no to the second.

So you would be happy for other people’s children to die then?

Would you expect another parent to sacrifice their child to save yours?

I wouldn't even sacrifice my dog

The world would burn before I sacrificed my child.

Id expect the same from any other parent too.

No

Nope. My kids need me alive

Or you could argue that someone laying their life down (or that of the most precious person to them) to save others is the very definition of humanity.

I would sacrifice my own life to.save my child but would never sacrifice theirs.

The question is “What would you do?”

What sort of discussion were you hoping to get out of quoting me and just stating that you might feel the opposite?

That isn’t a discussion.

If you’d given reasons for it or asked why I felt that way given X, or similar, there might have been a discussion to be had. But I can’t reasonably tell you you don’t feel the way you do and the way you feel has no bearing on the way I feel.

oc not.

And tbh I think humanity becoming extinct would be a good thing so I certainly wouldn't fight to stop that happening. I was gutted at the end of the day the earth stood still when he stopped the robot bugs from eating everyone. I'd have loved to see the aftermath when all the animals were returned and the earth was healthy.

I would literally burn the lot of you for my children.

All right Cersei, calm down 🤣

I wouldn’t sacrifice my child. And I wouldn’t trust anyone else to look after them either in that scenario so I probably wouldn’t sacrifice myself either.

I would sacrifice myself FOR my child. Nobody else. And if it was a bio thing like you had to be closely related I'd kill my ex and the grandparents first. I would never sacrifice my child for anyone. And I wouldn't sacrifice myself for anyone other than my children. Because I'd be making my children motherless and they need me.

I would literally burn the lot of you for my children.

Before I had kids I would have sacrificed myself for anyone child,cfir anyone really, I've put myself in potentially lethal situations to save animals. As soon as I got pregnant I became the second most important person in the world. Because I'm the most important person to the most important person in the world.

Surely everyone will answer the same thing- yes of course you would sacrifice your own but never your childs. Series must have been written by a man.

No.

It has to do with the question. This is a 'discussion' board.

Would your child agree though? Especially if they were the last one standing?

I just came here to say that The Last Of Us is one of the best stories I’ve seen, and loved watching it reimagined from the game!

Part 1 that is, I was less impressed with part 2. But season 3 should be interesting, playing as Abby! 😄

To answer the question, I’d probably do what Joel did 😅