re: If you were a passanger on the Titanic, how would you have reacted?

throw the minority passengers into the ocean

Do absolutely everything to ensure any loved ones on the ship with me were safely off.

Then probably panic and try to survive by myself.

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I would get some rope, find as many 3rd class children as I could gather and tie them together so I could use them as a human flotilla. Then when the rescue boat arrived I would say, "Thank the Savior you found me. I couldn't bear the thought of resting upon these urchins a moment longer".

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Yes. Find the fattest ones and make a party barge. Bonus: Make sure to lay them face down before assembling so you can cut thick slices of bacon off their backs to get your grub on when you hongree.

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What would you have done to survive??

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I would most likely be in the lower classes so...

I'd do literally anything to get my wife and kids on a boat. I'd stab and shank and punch and kick until they were on a boat. Then I'd try to find something floating in the water for myself.

I once read that many of the people jumped in the water not realizing they'd freeze to death so quickly. They thought they'd be fine floating in the water in life jackets. So with this hindsight ( ) I would immediately try to get on something out of the water.

Hide in a lifeboat until the Titanic sinks and then rob Rose of that damn necklace on the Carpathian that could have put her grandkids through college, put my own grandkids through college instead.

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oday, there would be 1000 life jackets floating around to swim to

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Swimming to a pile of life jackets wouldn't have helped anyhow. Once you get wet, you're dead.

The point remains: I would go down trying to cobble together a raft and oars of some sort to keep myself out of the water. Maybe it's a slim chance. But doing nothing is a 100% chance you'll be dead by sunrise