Commendable move from your collegue there, I don't think this is something everybody would do. I think I would be much too aware of the power lines, and just stay clear :I Off the top of my head, the riskyest move I've done were in self-preservation, and it was to somehow sneak my paper money out of view, during a muggery. In retrospect a stupid risk, but at the time, idunno what I was thinking I have also snuck away from a muggery while visiting Prague, and some students of my "paralel class" were attempted mugged. Attempted, because they were so amazingly naive, they never realized they were being mugged. The mugger obviously tried to be quick and discrete about it, so not to draw attention, and they simply didn't "get it". In the awkward discussion, I took my moment to casually walk away :] I am SO noble. But yes, risk is often a thoughtless act. Sacrifice is often very different.
This depends on the value of what - or who - I'm sacrificing myself for. Do I really have anything I value so much? Maybe in my dreams...
I would never sacrifice myself for someone else. How stupid is that?! We only have one life and we must preserve it as much as we can.
And I should add that anyone who does belive in an afterlife (via confirmation on a cencus or whatever) should be contractually obliged with the government to sacrifice their lives at the appropriate time for the good of others.
If a single further word is spoken on that partucular subject on here, I will... litter. A lot. And destroy the ozone layer.
Would I sacrifice myself? For someone I loved, and there's only one person that means that much to me, yes, without question. For a stranger in a dangerous situation, like trying to rescue a child being swept out to sea, I like to think I would but having never been in the situation... could I? Would I "freeze"? Can't say. For someone I despise, like Canada's Prime Minister, nope. If he was hanging from the edge of a cliff I'd tell him karma's a bitch.
I got in trouble with my girlfriend once over pillow talk-- she asked me how I'd prefer to die if given the choice, and I responded "saving a life or in service of of some truly noble cause." I guess "peacefully in my sleep alongside a very elderly version of you" was the answer the judges were looking for (though in my defense, it didn't really present itself in the context of the conversation). I've been told I tend to put others before myself to the point where it's a flaw instead of a virtue, but realistically speaking, I know my limits. My first instinct would probably be to charge in on behalf of another and damn the torpedoes, but I'm a weak man with bad reflexes and a stuttering heart. In a situation where I couldn't possibly do any good, like someone getting pulled out in a riptide, I'd probably make the wiser choice not to get two people killed instead of one, and stand there hating myself for it. If the situation were one where I had the potential to do more harm than good (an armed robbery, for instance), I might well spend too much time in hesitation.
Honest, but inflammatory, and he was purpose-built to enrage liberals. If we ran him north of the Yukon or south of the Mason-Dixon line, he could win by a landslide.
Yamu, you kindov remind me of my dad He is, what one would consider overly selfless. Me and my brother will often, jokingly, describe him as the type of person who will burst across the street, leap over cars, shove other people aside, so to be The One to help a mother lift the baby-stroller up onto the bus But, if anything, it is easily the most admirable "fault" a person can have
Well, all politicians are more than happy to sacrifice any of us or all of us for anything they might momentarily consider important or not important at all. So, there's that...