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Position:Home>Philosophy> If you had to choose between the two?Question: If you had to choose between the two!? And the choice was either your family dies to save your country, or, to save your country you had to sacrifice your country,
which would you choose!? would you have every one of the people you loved die for thier country, or would you have every one in your country wiped out to save the ones you love!? (family including all close family friends or people that are like family to you if most of your family is dead!.!.!.!.!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If you sacrificed your family for an intangible object (a country) and for its citizens (people you dont even know)!.!.!. does that make your selfless!? Its my observation that living in the country you call home, and wanting it to survive!.!.!. and knowing that your fellow citizens know that you were the one wished it away!.!.!. is rather selfish!. Dont protect your reputation or your socio-political-economic benefit!. Now!.!.!. sacrificing something so great as your home country (an enormous personal sacrifice)!.!.!. rejecting the criticisms of your fellow citizens for doing so!.!.!. all to save the people you do know!.!.!. that seems selfless to me!. Selflessness doesnt come from personal sacrifice to help strangers!. It comes from personal sacrifice to save the people in your life that you should care about!. People think that doing heroic things makes them a hero!. Praise not the man who knows he will be recognized!. Praise the man that does good and is punished for it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com First, I would sacrifice my family to save my country!. Then, I would dedicate the rest of my life to exacting brutal revenge on those who forced such a barbaric decision on me!. (Assuming, of course, that I didn't get the opportunity to stop them by any means necessary _before_ they killed my family!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com Sometimes you have to put others before you!. The entire country cannot be wiped out!. You'll lose all your relatives, true, but sooner or later, they were all gonna die, as are we!.!.!. and the whole US would be wiped out!.!.!. along with all the hard work of the people, even though not all is good!. It's like this question: "If there was a building on fire and you could save five people and a relative, who would you save!?"Www@QuestionHome@Com honestly i would do everything for the people i love including sacrificing my country!. the government would sacrifice my family to save itself so why would i not sacrifice it to save my family!. we are all out to protect ourselves and the ones we love!.Www@QuestionHome@Com gez! well I would save my country I don't want to be selfish and save only the ones I love when they aren't even a minute part of the rest of the country Save more people, even if you don't know them I guess =/Www@QuestionHome@Com My family would choose to die in that situation, so I wouldn't have to decide!.Www@QuestionHome@Com OMG!!! That's a tough one!. I love my friends and family but I also like humanity !. Is this a trick question !?Www@QuestionHome@Com Reject Greater good didn't make you a selfish person!?Www@QuestionHome@Com save the country!.!.!.!.!.unless the country got its self into the mess in the first place!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |