# Who would you kill, Tim Geithner or a newborn baby? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 7, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767 "2010-11-07T04:49:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767/41 "2010-11-08T23:42:04Z")
Geithner; it would make for a more entertaining news cycle. [ul] [li]_Treasury Secretary Drops Dead During Cabinet Meeting_ [/li][li]_Palmer J Witherspoon IV, esq Suffers Crib Death._[/li][/ul] Which headline do you think would be on CNN and which do you think would be on the back page of The Daily Wasp? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767/42 "2010-11-09T00:38:46Z")
Are the parents of the baby fertile and able to make another one quickly? Will anyone know I killed said person? How cute is the baby? How cute is Tim Geithner? Given that these questions were not defined in the original hypothetical, I have no answer. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767/43 "2010-11-09T01:09:43Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Are the parents of the baby fertile and able to make another one quickly? Will anyone know I killed said person? How cute is the baby? How cute is Tim Geithner? > > Given that these questions were not defined in the original hypothetical, I have no answer. The parents are still fertile. No one will know that you were responsible for the death. [This is the baby.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk) [This is Tim Geithner.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur9lEgcO_Y8&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767/44 "2010-11-09T01:19:22Z")
Geithner could probably put up a fight and I could end up with a broken nose or something, so I picked the baby. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767/45 "2010-11-09T03:33:33Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I would hold a life auction between Geithner and the parents. Who pays me most lives. That’s a free market solution that patriotic Americans should support. Nonono, killing the parents was not one of the options. > [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > I have nothing against anyone enough to kill them (except OBL, someb crime bosses, and tinpot dictators) You think too small. It’s leaders of great powers that do more damage. > [@](#): > > …this baby has been born into a wonderful setting (better than 99% of humanity) and will presumably enter a good professional career in the future (unless he goes hippy or some moronical path lke that) and possibly be Treasruy Secretary himself! Blah, no understanding of statistics & you insulted hippies. Phooey on you. (Geithner has 100% chance of being Treasury Sec for a few years; the baby’s chances approach 0.) > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Geithner; it would make for a more entertaining news cycle.[ul] > [li]_Treasury Secretary Drops Dead During Cabinet Meeting_ [/li][li]_Palmer J Witherspoon IV, esq Suffers Crib Death._[/li][/ul] This almost persuades me, but no. > [@Lakai](#): > > The parents are still fertile. No one will know that you were responsible for the death. > > [This is the baby.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk) > > [This is Tim Geithner.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur9lEgcO_Y8&feature=related) Gah, definitely the baby. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767/46 "2010-11-09T03:55:08Z")
> [@](#): > > I would hold a life auction between Geithner and the parents. Who pays me most lives. That’s a free market solution that patriotic Americans should support. > [@foolsguinea](#): > > Nonono, killing the parents was not one of the options… Certainly the baby is not going to be able to bid for its own life. I’m assuming the parents will pay to keep their baby alive. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767/47 "2010-11-09T04:46:09Z")
That baby just pisses me off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-kill-tim-geithner-or-a-newborn-baby/559767.md?page=2)