How many babies would you be willing to sacrifice in order to achieve ever lasting immortality?

[chequita guevara]

I chose the banana option, which is ten million and one +

[Theben]

Do I get to stay forever young, as well? Highlander rules or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade rules?

Gulliver's Travels rules.

[Dinner]

The more babies which die the better.

[Q Classic]

How personal will the sacrificing be?

Will they be from people I know? Do I get to select who gets sacrificed? Do I have to actually kill them myself, or can I simply use a button that abstracts the whole extermination process from view?

[Solomwi]

Yeah, but you're a lawyer, we know how you'd answer...

Yep. Eternal life means SO many potential billable hours!

[Dis]

I might be tempted if they were ignorant babies from ignorant parents. A little selective breeding never hurt anyone.

[DaShi]

Wait? You mean this isn't true?

[Lancer]

When you consider how many have been sacrificed for a buck or convenience, everlasting immortality should be a pretty popular draw.

[Blaupanzer]

The question disregards consequences even if the hypothesis were true. Unless you are a vampire, you cannot steal souls from babies or anyone else. By definition, vampires (who were originally viewed as soulstealers before the Catholic church intervened to make them bloodsuckers) are "immortal" due their undead status thus having little use for baby souls. No possible magic formula translating baby souls into adult life prolongation could occur without some severe negative redounding on the evil soul taker. Thus, insanity, spreading of disease, and carrion creatures follow in the wake of the vampire.

[Japher]

So, if I chose to sacrifice no babies I get immortality?

None! Babies are so cute, except other people's babies. My babies are cute. Other people's babies are rude, cry too much, and drool. ew.

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[Patroklos]

All of yours

[Riesstiu IV]

I don't have any babies, which means you don't get to be immortal.

[Dinner]

You can buy them from China. They especially don't like the girl babies.

[Victor Galis]

I love how the answers are generally either 0 or the highest number. It looks like if you're willing to make the sacrifice the exact number doesn't matter.

[Blaupanzer]

Numbers in the abstract have little meaning. If you had to personally kill each one with a small knife, the people at the high numbers would quickly reconsider.