Today’s dilemma is one of the classics from history. This dilemma allegedly occurred during WWII.
You are an inmate, imprisoned in a concentration camp. A guard tells you that you must choose one of your two children – a younger daughter or an older son – for him to take to the gas chamber. If you choose neither, he will take them both. What would you do? And do you know what Sophie chose to do?
My reasoning was that the daughter might be young enough that she isn’t aware of what is going on when she walks to her death. She could have the last moments of her life be peaceful ones…
I would not say anything. I would not add the pain of betrayal to their burden. Both would die and both would be out of this hell on earth in a few moments. And they would have each other as they walked away.