I don't even want to think about that. No one should ever be put in a position like that again.

family iz FAMILY... al-fo-1... n 1-fo-al... eithr WE-AL-DIE... or WE-AL-LIV... thtz hw it wud b... KAPISH!!!... peace!!!

After reading the diary of Anne Frank I cannot even entertain this question.

Yes! you smother the baby to save 10 people. My family was there!

I could never kill someone I love, let alone my sweet, innocent child and if anyone else tried to do it, they would pay.

Yes. I would rather smother a baby than to have it go through the horrors the Nazi's put so many through. In fact i might smother everyone to keep them from it too if the option were made available. People think it all ended then, but the wars in the Balkans saw much of the same. People we starved then given 1 minute to eat a bowl of boiling hot soup or continue to starve.. Some let their mouths and throats burn while others simply starved.. Many other atrocities happened as well. History will continue to repeat itself over and over.. This will all happen again and will likely be far worse.. Makes for a shameful planet.

Hmmm, utilization huh? I would just cover his mouth.

What you are asking, in more general terms is: Does the end justify the means? I could never take a life, for any reason other them maybe self defense. I would say just when I killed the baby, the Gestapo would end up finding us all anyway. A real family would rise and fall together. No, I would not kill a child. I am very glad that no one has to make such decisions again. We all owe our freedom, and a great debt of thanks, to some brave Allied soldiers.

Since you didn't say who the other people are, this is an easily altered scenario. That crying baby wouldn't be a problem at all,since one of the other 10 just happens to be Gandalf the Gray. The nazis show up to the door, and good old Mithrandir goes all bridge of Khazad Dum on them. The soldiers are not Balrogs,so there isn't a 20 foot whip to pull our trusty Gray Pilgrim down to the abyss.

Yes. I would kill my baby IF I couldn't silence it. Some mothers were forced to CHOOSE between children. The directive was as cruel as it was clear. "One child will be shot right now. Choose which one or they all will be shot." As hard and heartwrenching as that would be, I would indeed choose one child to sacrifice so that my other ones could live. No one wins if everybody dies.

"On the 4th of July, Colonel Potter decided to let several members of the 4077 take the day off for an old fashioned celebration. They went to the beach at Inchon. Inchon was west of Ouijongbu, and most of the fighting was in Kum Song, to the northeast. It was a nice summer day and the beach trip seemed just the thing to break the tension. On the way back to the MASH unit, the bus stopped to pick up some refugees. About a half a mile later; it stopped again, this time to pick up some wounded GIs. "We gotta get this bus into the bushes," one of the GIs said. "There's an enemy patrol coming down the road. Everyone get quiet. Nobody make a sound until they've passed us." The bus was hidden. Inside, everyone grew nervous. Each person sat on the edge of his seat, quietly breathing the tense air; terrified that each breath might be his last. Suddenly, a refugee baby began to wail. "Shhhh," Hawkeye hissed. The child's mother was in despair. She could not quiet the baby. If its sounds attracted the North Koreans, everyone could be killed. Soundlessly, the woman smothered her child." Source and further information: http://www.mash4077.co.uk/classic/goodbye.html I am afraid it is the most sensible thing to do in this situation. And if I did not have the courage to do it, I could understand others doing it in my place. Well, maybe I would need the rest of my life to understand, actually.