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Q: Whom will you save first if your mom and wife fall into the water at the same time in China?
Ok,i know it is a question as old as the hill.I add China with it so that the question has something to do with China and won't be deleted.And the precondition is that you have only one wife,not including the ex-wives.
Save wife, she may be useful. Mother , well there is my inheritance. Another option is neither. I can't swim and with my inheritance, I can get a new wife. I didn't push them in honest.
Ok, so I have just happened upon my wife and mother, both flailing away in a lake, neither able to swim. Now who to save? What to do? This is tricky. This is reeeal tricky.
I think I would have no choice under these circumstances but to take a long walk and think further on this conundrum, it is such a brain teaser. Maybe go for some pizza. Pizza always helps me think. Yes, that's what i'd do, i'd go for pizza. Or a burger. Hmmmm, pizza or a burger? Pizza, burger, pizza, burger, pizza, burger..........
Yep, i'd get a hamburger!
I will run to the nearest store and drink a gallon of Baiju. On return (if I could), if they are still there then I will simply smile and wave
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mum ofcorse, you can always find another wife, i think you have an obligation to save your mum, assuming she looked after you your whole life and was there for you
save my mother because i can get a new wife but i can't get a new mother
Can we change the question?.....Can't stand mom and wife mentioned in the same sentence........makes me remember why am still not married......Plus why should i be the one to choose one of them........They can discuss it among themselves and then they can tell me their decision of who to save..or just let them both go under....why should i feel guilty of making this choice?!!!!.........what if i saved my wife and after that by one or two years we get a divorce?.My mom's death will be meaaningless.What if i save my mom but my mom just died one year later?!!!!......Questions am really considering here
My wife. She is carrying my favorite cell phone and I would hate for that to get wet.
Whichever is the 'easiest' to save. Perhaps wife first. She has become primary family, and it is what most moms would ant you to do in the end.
Throw them a rubber ring with a hole in it, let them fight over it, them you'll not feel so guilty.
What about the ba er nai? Maybe between the two of you, both can be saved?
Wife, because my mom is dead.
Also, my mother could swim, my wife cannot.
Additionally I love both but I chose my wife (or more accurately we chose each other), my mother is my past, my wife will be my future, I will look to the future, while respectfully remembering the past. Therefore it would have to be my wife.
Finally the teachings of my father, (also long since dead), I was always taught your wife should be the most important part of your life, all else should come second. Now many will disagree with that, but it was what I was taught and within certain limitations is still what I try and follow.
If however it was a choice between wife and daughter, that would be more difficult but in theory at least it would be my wife as we could theoretically have another daughter, (although with age that is a diminishing chance, hence the 'difficulty'.)
chenhan:
For me,or maybe for most Chinese guys,probably we'll choose mother.My mother gave me life and brought me up,she spent most of her time taking care of me and tried to give me everything she had,i couldn't be here without her.Of course,wife is also one of the most important people in my life,but if i have to make a choice under such a condition,i would choose mom with no doubt.And i will miss my wife in my whole rest life.
Hugh.G.Rection:
Chenhan, of course I respect your thoughts, but I view it this way, (tbh this is my version of how my Father put it to me).
Your parents indeed put all they had into making you what you are, they did so, (certainly in the UK) in the hope of continuing the family line, (or to be more 'genetic') to continue the DNA. That was / is why they put so much effort into you.
Now, for that effort to be made worthwhile you too must continue that line, and usually, that requires a wife.
I'm an old fashioned guy, I mate for life, if my wife was to die, I would not want nor seek another wife. Therefore in my way, that is why I said it like I did.
No offense and as I said, I respect your position, I am merely trying to explain my own.
GuilinRaf:
It is a tough one, the question, and I dont think there is any "correct" answer. I asked this of my students yesterday and ALL of them said they would save their Mother.
God willing, we will never have to make that choice!
chenhan:
Hugh,though our views are different,i could understand you completely.There are open answers to this question.And GuilinRaf, also thanks for your answer.Yeah,we are fortunate not having to make such a choice.
My MOTHER.
but why?
I would jump in the water and pull my mother out and carry her to safety. She gave life to me and my siblings, raised us well and without her I wouldn't be alive today.
Then, I would jump back into the cold water and return to my wife's side. I would take my love by the hand, dive into the darkness, and together we would discover how deep the ocean goes.
Neither, I would try to get the fish to safety first.
A chinese man would save his mother, she helped him to find his wife. she will also help him to look for another wife. If she can swim, well then shes lucky to run for her life
A chinese man would save his mother, she helped him to find his wife. she will also help him to look for another wife. If she can swim, well then shes lucky to run for her life
angelina8:
Imagine he saves his wife. Then she cannot give him a son. Then he should find a new wife. How can he find a new wife without the help and guidance of his mother?
Yeah, he has to save his mother.
BTW This question is weird. Only in China...
Without a doubt, my wife. I love my mother very much, but saving my wife is like saving myself. Besides, my mother is a strong swimmer.
Neither... if they haven't got the brains to stand up in 1 foot of water to save themselves, they're not worth saving!
