You are assuming that your life or my life have no purpose or value
and that the child's life is more valuable. I do not feel that my
life is less important that a child's life (except my own child of
course). If I am a parent and die while trying to rescue a child, who
will there be now to take care of my children? Are my children not
just as important as a non-related child that I should selfishly
sacrifice my life (possibly in vain)?

"Alt-Ctrl-Del" AltCtrlDel@äää.òÕÿÿÿÿÞ wrote:

I believe if I were in that situation, I would have sacrificed my life if
it had to be that way to save the child. If I did not know how to swim,
and I knew that I could perhaps jump in and throw the child up on the bank
even if I knew beforehand that I would die, I would have done it.

Then maybe the child would have been shocked enough to cry loudly and
attract attention or crawl and climb away. A childs life is worth so much
more than an adults. A lot of adults today are self-centered, vain, all
about myself type people that would watch the little baby drown and say; I
might die if I try to save the child, so I will just let the baby die.

Deep down it is not self preservation, it is cowardice. A childs
existence on this earth is delicate at best in many circumstances and they
rely on us to protect and save them from the hazards that await them. We
know the dangers, but they do not. We should step up and do what many of
them want us to do as their little lives are slipping away and they do not
understand the pain and sudden, unexpected horror that is overtaking them.
We should sacrifice ourselves if need be.

Whether or not the child is yours that is dying should not matter. Every
child is precious, they all belong to someone. Just because their parents
may not should have ever had children and put them in danger or the
situation they find themselves in happens to be a true, unavoidable
accident is not the childs fault.

What I am trying to say is, don't worry about your own life when a little
precious, innocent, life is slipping away. Do what needs to be done and if
both of you die in the process, it was worth it to try. The baby wanted
you to try.

Alt


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