Risky Survival Decisions
Comments discuss scenarios where people take high-risk actions or endure dangers because the alternative is certain death, debating survival instincts, worst-case assumptions, and the preference for survival over death.
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You might die precisely because you dodged the barricade and would otherwise have survived.
That something could easily get them killed.
This assumes of course that one wants to survive.
It can't matter more when the alternative is death.
The alternative is certain death so not a lot to choose from
People could have died, or maybe did.
worse than getting killed by a bomb?
In the end people could get killed. It this case it's better to assume a worst case scenario
I'm guessing he would be more concerned about dying or sustaining irreparable physical harm...:-)
you and I might have made it out the other side, but what about the ones who didn't?