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N0m: After the Titanic sunk, the U.S. Congress held hearings on why any men (other than those needed to row the lifeboats) were saved, when there were still women on board who did not make it to a lifeboat and went down with the ship. In other words, the august body of lawmakers in Washington were angry that any men were saved before every woman could be saved.
Getting back to the original point, if a ship is sinking but it is very clear that there is sufficient time to organize a triage of prioritizing certain passengers to be saved first, and still save the maximum number of passengers possible given the fact that there are insufficient space in the lifeboats for everyone, do you then still insist on disagreeing with following halachic priority of who to save first (i.e. the men before the women, etc.) and would you still insist, despite the clarity that there’s time to triage in the halachic order and still save the maximum number of lives, that the halachic order of saving lives be disregarded?