You are one of two people on a malfunctioning airplane with only oneparachute.
*Pessimist:* you refuse the parachute because you might die in the jumpanyway.
*Optimist:* you refuse the parachute because people have survived jumpsjust like this before.
*Procrastinator:* you play a game of Monopoly for the parachute.
*Bureaucrat:* you order them to conduct a feasibility study onparachute use in melti-engine aircraft under corde red conditions.
*Lawyer:* you charge one parachute for helping them sue the airline.
*Doctor:* you tell them you need to run more tests, then take theparachute in order to make your next appointment.
*Sales executive:* you sell them the parachute at top retail rates andget the names of their friends and relatives who might like one too.
*Internal Revenue Service:* you confiscate the parachute along withtheir luggage, wallet, and gold fillings.
*Advertiser:* you strip-tease while singing that what they need is aneon parachute with computer altimeter for only $39.99.
*Engineer:* you make them another parachute out of aisle curtains anddental floss.
*Scientist:* you give them the parachute and ask them to send you areport on how well it worked.
*Mathematician:* you refuse to accept the parachute without proof thatit will work in all cases.
*Philosophy:* you ask how they know the parachute actually exists.
*English:* you explicate simile and metaphor in the parachuteinstructions.
*Comparative Literature:* you read the parachute instructions in allfour languages.
*Computer Science:* you design a machine capable of operating aparachute as well as a human being could.
*Economics:* you plot a demand curve by asking them, at regularintervals, how much they would pay for a parachute.
*Psychoanalysis:* you ask them what the shape of a parachute remindsthem of.
*Drama:* you tie them down so they can watch you develop the characterof a person stuck on a falling plane without a parachute.
*Art:* you hang the parachute on the wall and sign it.
*Republican:* as you jump out with the parachute, you tell them to workhard and not expect handouts.
*Democrat:* you ask them for a dollar to buy scissors so you can cutthe parachute into two equal pieces.
*Libertarian:* after reminding them of their constitutional right tohave a parachute, you take it and jump out.
*Ross Perot:* you tell them not to worry, since it wonUt take you longto learn how to fix a plane.
*Surgeon General:* you issue a warning that skydiving can be hazardousto your health.
*Association of Tobacco Growers:* you explain very patiently thatdespite a number of remarkable coincidences, studies have shown no linkwhatsoever between airplane crashes and death.
*National Rifle Association:* you shoot them and take the parachute.
*Police Bigot:* you beat them unconscious with the parachute.
*Environmentalist:* you refuse to use the parachute unless it isbiodegradable.
*Objectivist:* your only rational and moral choice is to take theparachute, as the free market will take care of the other person.
*Branch Davidian (David Koresh):* you get inside the parachute andrefuse to come out.
*Sports Fan:* you start betting on how long it will take to crash.
*Auto Mechanic:* as long as you are looking at the plane engine, itworks fine.