The ship is sinking. You are the captain. Do you order that women and children should be evacuated first?
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this is 2018 if my ship lacks enough lifeboats for those on board there's something way more fucky going on than who I might call to board those escape pods first.
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Reverse alphabetical order by last name; payback for all the elementary school unfairness.
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I know this is supposed to be a philosophical question, but practically speaking, all modern passenger ships are equipped w/ sufficient lifeboats for everyone aboard. Splitting up evacuees by gender/age would likely complicate and retard the process. The captain would know this.
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That was a Victorian thing. Today the protocol is "get everyone off the boat as fast as possible, help those who need help".
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🎃 Children first. The women can please themselves. The men can stay on board, keep bailing and try to save my ship ⛵. I'm in the 🚁 supervising & shark watching. .
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Both. If you put children first and then men and women are evacuated randomly, you are running the risk: a child can lose both: mather and father. If you put children with women, al least the mother will survive. Children are more important than men or women.
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Children and one of their parents first. It could be Mom or Dad, up to them. But someone's got to take care of all those children.