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Your child and your best friend's child are critically ill. You are the doctor allocating the only experimental treatment. Your friend's child has a 90% survival rate; yours has only 10%.

Still open. What would you do?

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Current split · aired 2026-08-23

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Give it to my child197 votesGive it to their child

51% chose “Give it to my child”.

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What each choice meant

A · Give it to my child

You chose your child. The other child died.

The Family Protector — Your own blood comes before any rules or statistics.

B · Give it to their child

You chose professional duty. Your child died.

The Impartial Just — You cannot sacrifice a near-certain life for a selfish miracle.