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Old Dec 05, 2019, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by atisketatasket View Post
I went to a two-hour diversity workshop this afternoon. They started with an exercise where we were given a list of 12 people. Earth is being destroyed tomorrow and we had to pick 8 to go on the spaceship that seats only 8 and be saved. Of course the candidates are all like "alcoholic male accountant" or "60-year-old Native American university administrator."

Obviously the goal was regenerate the species, I went for reproductive capacity. So I had like the alcoholic male accountant, the 5 women of childbearing age (one already pregnant), a medical student of no identified gender who was a terrorist, and a 12-year-old orphan boy.

No one else used this principle. One guy ended up with all women and people of indeterminate gender because they had skills.

We are doomed.

I suspect I'd choose more similarly to you. Choosing younger people (vs. the 60-year-old--regardless of their gender) would make sense as well.
Thanks for this!
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