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My mother. No question about it.  I'd be sorry, guilty and filled
with regrets afterward, but it would be no-contest.

Unless it was -my- child.  Then, it's the child and much higher
regrets and grief.

 My mother. I cannot imagine life without her. I owe her a lot more that
er than I could ever pay back, and if I had the chance to give my life so
that she could live, I would do it in a heartbeat.

        The child. It should have a chance to live it's life. Your mother can
        continue through you, the father's family will survive. Everything
        all most always works out.

Though I can't say why, exactly, I would help the child first.  I suppose that
I feel the two adults have a better chance of getting out on their own -- but
that's only part of it.  (Is it because I'm a parent?  Maybe, dunno)

i, being a lifeguard and believing in it, would probably try to save mom, then
the child, then the adult, and die doing it.  but, that's just me.

I would save the child, since the child is the most helpless.  I would
assume the other two would have as good a chance of getting out as I would.

I think if I knew beforehand that I could only save one, it would be my mom,
but most likely if I were in that situation I'd assume the adults could get
out on their own, and try to help the child.

Yep. Following the rules, you have to assume you could save only one.
Under those rules, I would save my mom. This probably would never come up
as swa explains in #8.

(actually, it's rather possible that the other three are incapacitated in
such a way that they cannot make it out under their own power. that's what
I had assumed when I read popcorn's #0.)

Realistically, since my mom is in a wheelchair, I'd put the baby on her lap,
wheel them both out and make the woman try to follow close behind.  Since I
can't answer that way, I'd probably save my mom.

Me mom would be saved first.  

Fascinating.  Canis assumed the "sole income provider" was male and
Kimba assumed the same was female.  There is sexism afoot (although not
too much, since the other 10 responses made no gender classification).

Considering the relationship I have with my mom, that would be the easiest
part.  Let her burn.  Now, between the child and the parent... the child.
But this is not from my own consideration, but because the media would 
lambaste me for letting a child die when I could have prevented it.  On
my own conscience, the parent.

I agree with #4, the two adults have already had a chance at life.  The 
child has just begun.

If this happened to me it would have to be in a dream, since my
mother is dead, so in the dream I'd try stretching the situation --
let the other adult carry the child, send them ahead of me, and
carry out my mother (whom in real life I could never have lifted,
since only at 9 months' pregnancy did I ever weigh as much as she
did during my adulthood).

The child is the least experienced of the three and deserves my attention.
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I'd trip over a cord on the floor, and crash into the only remaining solid
support beam in the building, causing the whole thing to come crashing down
on top of all of us, buring us all horribly to death.

I'd let my mother carry the child and I'd rescue her. The republican is on
their own.

My mother. What's the point of being in a family if its members can't be there
for each other?

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