Your group is stranded

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Prioritize the pregnant member

Prioritize the injured member

Ration the resources normally (3 days all members)

Ration the resources sparingly (5 days all members)

Prioritize the teenager

Something else

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in a remote location with limited resources. You the leader must decide how to distribute these resources fairly so that everyone can survive. However, there are some considerations to be made. That is because of your five member group there is:

One member pregnant and requires extra resources
One member injured and requires extra resources to recover or they will die
One member is a teenager
One member is fairly fit and do not require much food or water
Your condition is good

You estimate it will take about five days for help to get to you. But you have enough food for 3 days if rationed normally. What will you do?

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reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M

if it was longer maybe it would be different but for 5 days a healthy person can eat nothing at all and be just fine, some people do this voluntarily as an occasional fasting. so that being said, of course give the pregnant lady anything she needs because the baby could be seriously affected if she doesn't eat enough. give the injured person anything they need so they don't die. that leaves 2 fit adults and an adolescent. I'm not sure if "rationned normally" means that the woman and injured guy get what they fully need but lets say it does. lets say they eat 3 meals a day but two get big meals. that means in total there is 18 large meals and 27 regular meals. lets say the pregnant woman is in her second trimester and needs 20% more resources and the same for injured guy. they both need an extra 6 big meals so about 15 regular meals for the both of them. that leaves 12 meals to be split in 3 so the 3 other people would get one regualr meal a day except for the last day where they get nothing.