(September 9, 2014 at 3:00 pm)Greatest I am Wrote:(September 9, 2014 at 2:53 pm)Losty Wrote: 1) what you are describing is not man ruling over women. It's women demanding that their life is more valuable than the lives of men.
2) I don't believe in Poseidon any more than I believe in any other gods.
Oops. I meant the ship Poseidon. The one that sunk.
It is demanding that men do the right thing if they are to rule at all.
Or do you think the best thing to do is put the men and children in the life boats?
Why not just the men and leave the women and children to drown?
See the difference, ridiculousness, when you try to justify anything other than women and children first?
Regards
DL
I'm assuming you mean the Titanic since the Poseidon, from the movies, was a fictional ship.
In this particular example, I would say that the best way to avoid such decisions is to avoid arrogance of "unsinkable" and not providing enough lifeboats to always preparing for the worst.
Also, in this example, it wasn't women demanding places on the ship but the insistence of the captain, crew, and many of the male passengers of, "women and children first".
I have no doubt that some women WOULD demand men make room for them in the lifeboats, as I have no doubt many men would do the same.
We don't truly know how we would react in such situations until we're in them, despite claims to the contrary we may make to make ourselves sound brave to ourselves and others.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"