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CMV: In case of emergency, it's better to save adults over children

Everybody says, "In case of emergency, women and children first". Well, i'll refrain from the women part, i'll discuss about saving the children first. 

Why "children first"? I've heard so many people said "because children are the future and they'll continue our human race". To me, that is absolute nonsense. I'm not gonna debate about the moral or emotional point, i'm talking about the practical point. Saving children first is an idiotic move.

First, adults are more likely to survive the disaster. For example, in case of sinking ship, put the adults on life boat and they'll survive longer until help comes, or they will know how to navigate to a safe place or nearby land unlike the children who most likely will wait until rescued or die.

Second, adults are more likely to survive after the disaster. For example, in a zombie apocalypse, save the adults and they can form a group, build shelter and fend for themselves. Save the children and they will hide in the corner and get eaten in a day or two. Not to mention, when fighting off the zombies, more adults mean more fighting power, while more children will drag you down as you have to look out for them when fighting and can easily make fatal mistakes, like when you're safe in your fort but Sophia gets a panic attack and run out to the wild and you have to risk going out to find her? Yeah, I would hate to be in that situation.

Third, for the purpose of reproduction and preserve our specie, the adults are much more suitable. Adults can breed immediately as long as they find a safe shelter. Children need to wait years until they reach puberty, and most won't even survive to get to that, and even if they get to the point they can breed, the lack of experience in sexual relationship and child birth makes them less likely to produce a healthy and safe offsprings, not when they can hardly protect themselves. Therefore, their chance of preserving the human race is extremely low. 

All in all, i don't see any reason to save the children first in case of emergency or apocalypse.
gpt
"Children First" almost never refers to an actual apocalyptic scenario and instead points out the fact that adults are much more capable of saving themselves than a child and in the event of a panic, are more likely to be crushed by a crowd.