Quote Originally Posted by christopher leigh View Post
Guick if my wife was next to you with a broken leg, and you had two broken legs, my priority would be my wife.To say I should put you first, sums up the evil of the altruist position.

Many of Those mountaineers on Everest are just like you.People who believe that others come first.It's amazing how the flaws in ones moral code become exposed on the worlds highest mountain!
I don't suppose I'd climb over my wife to get to you either Chris!
I don't get that bit about the mountaineers on Everest. I don't think I would walk on by you know. I was going up to Broad Stand to rig it for a friend who was doing the BG. Up on the Corridoor Route there were these blokes shouting and waving and as I approached them I thought "Bugger! I'm going to have to help these sods and let my mate down." I didn't feel I had a choice you see. What's more I know my friend would've b*llocked me if I'd walked on by. She's a doctor, if that's relevant. Anyway they were just prats (it's ok I knew one of them) who'd been in the pub, trying to attract their friend's attention. He was on his way up Great Gable to give you an idea of how loud they were shouting. So phew! it was ok to keep moving. And she did the BG too!
Everest, it's just a hill. People first everytime.