Geithner. Because, if you ask him ‘shall I kill you or the baby?’ and he’s a good man, he’d prefer for you to kill the baby. If he’s a bad man, then it’s better to kill the baby anyway.
I know some of you would disagree about that, but, come on, if a man was sitting there with a baby next to him and chose to let that baby die instead of him, he’s not going to be the sort of person you’d want to share a room with. You’d be next!
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.
I have nothing against anyone enough to kill them (except OBL, someb crime bosses, and tinpot dictators) but I’d tell Athena to kill Timothy Geithner simply because he has already lived as others have said a fulfilling life rising to the heights of power and influence while 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!
I read this as " I pickled the baby’ but that works for me too!
The sprog will be a net consumer for decades. The other dude is probably providing stuff.
Breadwinners win!
Fixed it for you.
Gotta go with the baby here. If I kill the U.S. Secretary of Treasury I’m pretty much guaranteed to be caught. There’s going to be a huge manhunt, media circus, the whole package. Man probably has bodyguards too. With some random baby I have a reasonable chance to get away with it, if I play my cards right and catch a break.
I pick Timmy, especially if I have to do the deed myself rather than just choose which one she is going to off with her alien technology that primitive screwheads interpret as divine powers. He’s a man of my own age. Who knows? He might defeat me. Then he gets to live and I get to die in battle. Killing a helpless infant carries no glory and I’d be scheming on ramming a rhodium-plated titanium bodkin through the thorax of the sheet-wearing space faker who tried to coerce me into doing it.
Jeez, you have to do battle? I was thinking of shooting from a safe distance. If that’s the case, I’ll pick the baby.
While it sounds terrible to say, the baby most likely won’t amount to much. Geithner, whether you like him or not, has the potential to help solve many of our economic problems. From a utilitarian perspective, we must keep Timmy alive! Of course, I’d choose the opposite if the baby is any doper’s monkeysphere, or in their monkeysphere’s monkeyspheres.
The twist is that the baby is also named Tim Geithner, so if you choose that option they both die. And if you choose the baby option Athena goes back in time and kills the 49-y-o TG as a newborn.
Athena is a douche.
Athena totally wouldn’t mess with that kind of shit. Eris, maybe.
I’m on board with Odin, Zeus, and Yahweh, of course.
I can imagine the great Pallas Athena deciding, regretfully, that a perilous situation could only be resolved by slaying an infant. I’m just saying that She wouldn’t make someone else do it. Unlike that fellow who is mistakenly thought to be her father she has integrity; if dirty business has to be done, She’ll do it Her Ownself.
Odin, of course, has his own sort of integrity; he’s unique among the evil sky-kings in that he admits that he’s evil.
ETA: I am perfectly aware that I contracted my previous post in the first paragraph of this one. I’ll admit when I’m wrong.
I picked the baby because it is probably more tender and juicy. MMMMmmmmm veal.
What?
For those of you that chose Tim, what if the baby was trapped in a car and on fire? Would you change your answer then?
Geithner is still working for Goldman. He should be fired , then killed .
If you kill him, it won’t be necessary to fire him. Think Efficiency, man!
Just like that old viking standard “Pillage then burn!”
I think I would get in a lot more trouble for killing the Treasury Secretary than I would some random baby. He’d also put up a better fight, and the meat would be stringier.
Wait. Am *I *killing the person? based on the OP I thought it was that I chose who Athena killed.
Either way, Tim had a good run.
To clear up confusion, this was how I intended it. Otherwise, there would be no need for Athena to be involved.