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I take care of the baby as best I can. It's the only morally right choice, IMO, and this is not only from the Jewish point of view, which teaches "pikuach nefesh dokhin et hakol...." "Saving a life overrides every other commandment," but also in my own secular view, man is a social creature, and has responsibilities to his fellows. Furthermore, from an energy standpoint, what goes around comes around. If I take care of the baby, that energy is being put out into the universe, and perhaps it will stimulate rescuers to come and find both of us.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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