Will you "Risk" your own life for the sake of others

Others whom I love? yessir!

Im the kind of person that wouldnt give up a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup so I dont see it happening. :/

So long as I have a firearm handy and will be rewarded, I'm all for it.

Life is boring without some gainful heroics.

I'm stupid so I'd probably jump in and try to save someone in danger. haha

depends on the "others"

I also think there is a grain of truth to this.
I would also like to add that there are some idiots (me) out there who will risk their life for others without realizing it.

With this thought process in hand, I am a little curious as to what I would do if I stopped to think that I am risking my life for this person (or sometimes body).

Also: When you answer this question, don't just think of your life, think of the lasting "I could have done SOMETHING." you get when you don't. (survivor's guilt)

I think I would but can't really know. When I was 16 a girl stepped in front of a bus and I tackled her out of the way it wasn't as heroic as it sounds though. The bus stopped about 4 feet from her after I tacked her out of the way so she thought I was an asshole and everyone laughed. I’d like to think that I'm that heroic, but facing the end of a gun I don't know what I would do.

Lmao, I would've laughed too, no offense or anything. That was pretty heroic though, IMO.

yeah, I would my personality is that way I guess. if I could I would save someone. it just in my personality to help and make others happy. I don't think of my self and put others before me. even tough I might not be a saint but I am not selfish. well I am not good I am not evil I am just human. and I belive that if you must you must do what is right for the benift of your brethen. so I would gladly give my life to save a person because If I didn't I just would'nt be able to not feel guilty. and how is my life worth more then yours if I could save you I would I can truthfully say that.
I will protect cause that is my duty as a human.

Humans tend to be complex beings. I was speaking of the value of a persons life along the lines of their general value to society against how valuable you consider yourself to be to society, but just as important is, as you said, the personal value the person in danger holds for you. If you see someone as important to you, you tend to see them as important in general. Human emotions are the only thing that make this at all a complicated issue.
There is also something you and a few others have mentioned a bit; a persons psychological state and opinion of self, independent from anything else. Some people, for one reason or another, do not see themselves as generally important, when, in general, all humans are equally important, and equally ineffectual.
However, with such a low self-image, one would be more likely to give up their existence for that of another.
So how a person feels about themselves at the time also plays a fair part, it seems.



A couple other people mentioned this as well, which is something I didn't originally think of, because it isn't something that would happen with me.
I'm not sure if it's a large factor at the time of decision, though. I just don't know how much a person considers how guilty they might feel if they don't do something in the moment in which they have to decide.
Though that's possible, it's probably just a problem for the empathetic living.

Another thought I had, that is sort of a sub-topic of the main topic, is this: what if the person in danger is in that situation by their own fault. I don't mean by accident, I mean if someone is trying to kill themselves. Is it worth risking your life for someone who actually WANTS to die? Are they even worth being kept alive in the first place? What if they just try again?
There is more than just your perspective to consider.

That's happened to me before sort of. A girl was going to cross the street and a car was coming fast. So I went and grabbed her arm and yanked her towards me, making her fall on me and knee me in the groin only to have the car turn in the street before us.

To tell the truth, I have no answer to the above question. It boils down to my natural instincts under certain cirumstances.

The same individual may react differently to various scenarios, such as saving a baby from a fall, as opposed to a drunkard in the same situation.

What about a drunk baby?

at first i though you meant a superhero complex. in which you intentionally put people in harms way just so you can get satisfaction from saving them. i was like :shock:

and for me it'd depend on the situation

I will throw myself in if there is a chance to save the other person and survive without meeting anymore trouble in the future..
Other than this.. No~

sorry but thats hilarious i would laugh my ass off but the way life is put out for me i don't think i care if i die in process of saving someone. Rather then thinking should i do it i think how should i pull this off what is possible to save this person because if i even stop to think should i do it doubting myself is only gonna make me pull back or even lose my life without being able to do anything but if i do live i wish to pass my judgement on this corupted bastard if its some murderer or somin

Maybe depending on who it is

Exctly I mean I wouldn't risk my life for a sranger or an assholebut if one my close friends was dyeing or about to die I would do what ever i could to save them.

I would risk someone Else's life to save others... Does that count?

Depends....am I getting some after?Rofl


But realy and truly I think I would cus I usualy can't say no to ppl (pretty annoying and doesn't get me laid as much as I wish but it does
45% of d time)