If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save?

If you save her live twice every year, how many lives did you save per year?

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CameronDev@programming.dev · 28 pts · 252d

The first save gets downgraded from a "life save" to a "6 months save". You have to return the hero crown they gave you.

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 27 pts · 252d

You saved her life. Twice.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Doesn’t matter, MJ still friendzones Peter.

VivianRixia@piefed.social · 14 pts · 252d

as Uncle Ben used to say, "With great power comes great entitlement"

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 252d (4 replies)

You saved one life twice. But is there any significance to this being 'her' rather than 'they'? Did you have a specific person in mind?

Engywuck@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 252d

In some languages (i.e., italian and spanish), "person" is a feminine word (the word itself has ha gender, grammatically). Maybe OP isn't a native english speaker and they're just translating literally their thought, implying "someone" as "a person".

rbos@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 252d (2 replies)

If it was 'he' nobody would have questioned it, which kinds gives me pause for thought.

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 252d (1 reply)

It would have bothered me to the same degree, I don't know about you. I haven't seen anyone on Lemmy using 'he' as a 'gender neutral' pronoun yet, but I assure you I would correct it just as I regularly do in real life.

rbos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 252d

I try to notice it but often fail.

theneverfox@pawb.social · 12 pts · 252d (3 replies)

One. It's the same life, otherwise you could save infinite lives by care taking for a suicidal octogenarian

northernlights@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 252d (2 replies)

Unless they got pregnant in between

theneverfox@pawb.social · 3 pts · 252d (1 reply)

You usually can't get pregnant in your 80's lol

northernlights@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 252d

Oh i was more commenting on the OP's original question

BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 251d

Your banker made fun of you. That's not how life savings accounts work.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 252d (1 reply)

If you Murderdeathkill someone, and they come back as a zombie, can you still get in trouble?

NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 6 pts · 252d

Very rare Demolition Man reference.

callouscomic@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 252d

I would ask The Fray. They seemed to know a lot about How To Save A Life.

Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 251d

None. You didn't save anything. You merely prolonged their suffering. Sicko.

oce@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 252d

If they caught some babies or other parasite in the meantime, you may have saved much more lives.

CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d

None. God clearly wants her dead and you're just delaying the inevitable.

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 252d (1 reply)

It's even more ambiguous given that it's specifically a "her" so if she was pregnant, it could complicate things depending on your view on whether or not a fetus is a life...

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passenger@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 251d

Although a 'he' could also have a womb. It's interesting how OP has assigned a gender to this post, not really oddly specific but getting there.

marzhall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 252d

One plus the number of lives she saved each time you save her.

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 3 pts · 252d

Under US law you can now murder that person twice, because of the Judd Act.

Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 251d

Under the premise of a life not being a commodity, then each time you save a specific life it counts as +1 life saved. Or if you're a bastard then who cares.

FanciestPants@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d

This may depend on how many lives she took in between?

thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d

1 lives it's the same life but you saved that specific life twice