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A fire devastates the nursing home. You only have time to drag one person out: your 90-year-old grandmother with advanced dementia, or a 20-year-old volunteer who was knocked unconscious while helping.
Still open. What would you do?
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Current split · aired 2026-10-10
47%53%
Save my grandmother650 votesSave the volunteer
53% chose “Save the volunteer”.
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What each choice meant
A · Save my grandmother
You saved your grandmother. The volunteer perished.
The Family Protector — Blood and duty to your own come before any calculation of utility.
B · Save the volunteer
You saved the volunteer. Your grandmother perished.
The Just Utilitarian — You decide based on the value of the future and the sacrifice of one who tried to help.