Replying to LO27684 --
Hi Ther,
Know the idea, have not got the details. However, just of interest I have
read about but cannot lay my hands on the source of real life scenarios
similar to these and the interesting outcomes. Of some interest - right
on the edges - is the survival of Shackleton and his men on the Antarctic
ice fields and the journey they undertook. By any measure I think that
more should have died than did. Then there is the series of events that
were the basis of the book Moby Dick. Many of the sailors died and some
were culled by their shipmates to aid the survival of the others. The one
I cannot find the source to was about a group of miners trapped
underground with a limited air supply. They all knew that the air would
only last a few hours. They also knew that it would take more hours than
available to rescue them, so they all accepted that they would die.
However only one had a watch that could be seen in the darkness and he
lied about the passage of time, counting off one hour for every two that
had passed. The only one who did not survive to be rescued was the one
with the watch. (I cannot remember the details fully). Whilst I
understand the objective of the game to some extent and that the above
stories are just that. However I know - being an contrary bugger if I was
asked to play the game I would be interested in how we can get all of the
people out rather than selecting who is to die. On top of that I feel
that drawing lots, after volunteers is the only fair way. After all how
many times would it be chosen that a Doctor should live over a drug using
pop has been pop star. We could chose to save Harold Shipman (A Doctor
and possibly Britain's greatest ever mass murderer) and condemn Bob
Geldolf (Shabby looking has been of a punk rock star who has shaken so
many people and politicians that the attitude we have to hunger and
poverty in Africa has changed).
>Some years ago I learned and used a group exercise in which ten people are
>trapped in a deep hole, and circumstances are such that not all can be
>rescued. They can only be rescued one at a time and it's almost certain
>that 2 or 3 will die. The group is given descriptions of these ten people
>and then has to rank-order them for rescue.
>
>I seem to have lost the all-important description sheet, and have checked
>through all the materials in my library and files and am unable to find.
>Does anybody know what I'm talking about? Can you send me, or direct me
>to, the material I need?
>
>Jack Hirschfeld
>jack@his.com
--Roger.
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