Introspection, Fishy's Moral Dilemmas thread

I'd go w #1. I could probably bring about better good with that than a cure for aids. Besides there's 50 other std's and diseases to take it's place so I see it as a wasted effort.

Ya hook up with God while you're still alive and he gives you the meaning to everything that exists but wants you to keep it a secret. Do ya listen to him out of obedience or spill the beans cuz you feel people will profit from it spiritually?

I couldn't keep it quiet even if I wanted too.... So I would tell people.

There are two buses going towards a cliff. Your significant other and child are in one bus. The other is a school bus with 30 children in it. You only have the chance to stop one bus from driving off the cliff and crashing into a certain death, which one do you stop?

Id probably save the 30 kids. though up to the last minute I'd still be doing an eenie meeenie minie moe. I love my daughter dearly beyond comprehension. She understands about helping others and I think if she knew the other bus had 30 little kids on it she would see why I went to help them and not blame me for it.

btw...what the hell is my sig other just sittin on her ass for? she should be trying to save my kid as well.


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What's better...to burn out in your prime of life or fade away into a life of getting older, disease, and shitting yourself and having other people wipe your ass?

What can I say? Your sig other is really, really lazy....

And I would want to die in the prime of my life, a hell of a lot better then dying old while having people wipe my ass... Actually it would be funny to die while somebody is wiping my ass, that would be really awkward, still prime is better.

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You can see in the future and you know that somebody is going to cause a school shooting in a week and kill at least 20 people. This person himself however doesn't know yet, nor has he made any plans. You would call the cops but for some reason you can't. Your only chance to stop this guy is to kill him today. Do you do it?

I believe I would hold off if I had to trust my own esp and there was no other way.

You get all hot and heavy with this chick...things are working out nice and you know you're gonna score so you start going South (going down on her) After you hit bottom and she's die hard pushing you into her, you realize that she stinks so bad that you even lose your hardon. Do you come up with some excuse to get out of it to save face, lay the brutal truth right out, or try to ge tit back up and have sex with her anyway?

I would fart until she was in as much pain as I was.

Kidding.

Well, since I didn't notice until my face was shoved up her vagina, I would assume it can't be that
bad, or at least that widespread... either way, the best thing to do is get my head out of there.

From there, I'd just try to forget about it for now, get myself hard again, and continue on merrily.
If it's a serious problem, I'd probably bring it up at some other time and in a way that I could
make it as less embarrassing as I can, with emphasis on the fact that I've lived through it. Or
something. I'm sticking my virgin nose where it doesn't belong by stepping in here.

You're dealing with some young brat who for whatever reason has something that you want or
need ( and is most likely yours, but you may answer the question either way ). So... you're try-
ing to get it from this brat, but he or she will not listen to you no matter how much you reason
with the child. So the question is, what do you do; do you attempt to reason with the person,
attempt to forcibly rip the item out of his or her hands while fearing whatever obscure charges
the parents may place on you ( or at the very least, waste your time ), or do you seek out the
incompetent parents of the dirty, little munchkin in hope of them being able to take control of him
or her? Or do you do something completely unexpected?

I take it back, if it's mine then it's mine simple as that. If the parents decide to complain then they can do it, it's not my problem. If they call the cops then they will just tell them to fuck off and they have more important things to do, so I'm not to worried.

You are walking down the street one day and find a wallet, inside the wallet there is a few hundreds dollars of cash and a drivers license. You recognize the woman on the license as one that wouldn't miss the money anyway. She is really rich and a complete bitch. What do you do with the wallet and the money?

Return the wallet and the money. Doesn't matter who or what the person is who lost it, they don't make me compromise who I am and how I live my life if I can help it. If she is that much of a bitch, return the thing anonymously and be done with it.

Truth or ignorance...

Something has happened, something dire. You learn that the planet is to be destroyed in a matter of weeks. No one is going to survive, and only you have this knowledge and the proof of it, which you can demonstrate clearly, is (to any reasoning mind) irrefutable.

Do you make your knowledge public so that the members of your species can make their end as they see fit (as well as possible negative effects, panic, etc) or do you tell only a select few or do you just keep silent and let the world end without anyone being the wiser?

This post has been edited by SamuraiShojo on May 22 2007, 02:59 AM

I'd just let it end, the panic caused by telling something like that would probably be huge... I might tell a select few people but that really depends on a lot of things. I wouldn't even tell all my friends.

Two bombs are about to fall on the earth, one on your home town the other one Mexico city. You have the power to stop one, which one?

My hometown, I have a high survival instinct, or whichever is to my right, assuming that whatever means I have to stop the bomb, would be done with my appendages, thus being right handed I would automatically stop the bomb (or hit the button) closest to my right hand.



Taking this one from a tv show:

You work on a dock. In a large box you find a few young girls stowed away. You know that they are being transported for a prostitution ring for a powerful and dangerous person with conections in all the right spots. Do you 'save' the young girls, risking your life, or do you close the door and do no more?

Nokomis, have you ever read any of John Ringo's books? In one of them the main protagonist saves a group of young females who were going to be whored in much the same manner. As a returned favor for saving them, the protagonist makes the women his, stating that they would have been in that situation anyway ( but this way they'll be treated better than dirt ). My hero.

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Anyway, the location in your question is a little vague. Using my native country of the United States of America the choice is awfully easy: save. Upon finding the girls all I have to do is contact the government. I wouldn't have to worry about anyone associated with that box that may ( for whatever reason ) be on the ship to attack me, at least not for more than a few moments since the police should arrive shortly. There should already be security on the docks too ( assuming that this scenario takes place in the current, post-eleventh-of-September paranoia state of the United States of America ). Shipping logs and other various documentation should give some lead to who is responsible, although it can always be false information. If the person lives and operates in the United States even with red herrings he or she should be eventually found and arrested. If the person is not in the country, he or she will most likely wont get touched but that'll just make me seem that much smaller and not worth going after.

If, however, the person's connections prevent him or her from being captured, the general public can still be used as a weapon of protection. People in this country are very easy to rally and support anything. Since most Americans would side with me as far as morals go, I wouldn't have to worry about the media neglecting my story ( in case the person tries using connections to silence the news for some reason ).

Further, transporting by ship implies international trading and a large business. If it is a large business, I doubt this person would be so enraged at the loss of a few goods ( although humans can go for high prices ) to be a small enough loss that trying to find who discovered the load, chase them down, kill them, and cover your tracks so you aren't caught doing yet another crime.

If it isn't an international, huge black market operation and is instead a small-time job done by one man... he is obviously far below the require intelligence to perform basic motor skills, let alone chase some lowly dock-worker around. A few girls across country would be easier to transport using a van. No inspections unless you're going across a border and even then there's ways around. I don't think the entire operation would take place in the United States of America. The girls would most likely be from another country. See sex tourism.

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You have, by some magic or string of bizarre events, obtained full power in the United States whether by getting everyone to agree and do your bidding by any means necessary or by becoming a dictator. Thankfully, you are a caring person and have been motivated to take control for the sake of the people. Assuming you use your new powers solely for the people, do you give them what they want or what you think they need?

Basically, do you give them free lunches or introduce laws that force people to live sinless lives ( three years in juvy if you don't eat your peas )?

Odd as this may sound...I'd like to think I'd make the country a little more like Switzerland. I believe they have it right. Each citizen would have to endure three years in the military, and there would be strict entry laws as well as far as getting into the country. I think being a 'super power' comes with a lot of responsibility, and that doesn't mean stepping into every schoolyard fight that pops up in every little country. That said, allies are allies and we help those that need it and deserve it.

I think it should also be more difficult for fast food chains to open up, perhaps impose higher taxes on foods that are linked to greater health risks, much like we do with cigarettes...which, by the way, would be phased out over a ten year period.

The list is endless on things we could do in order to make America a better place to live...and perhaps this isn't even what you wanted in an answer. Either way, it doesn't matter. Having a Canadian run things down there is probably the best start your country could get in a new leader anyway. ;)

Someone you knew well and cared about greatly that has passed away at some point in your life is now trying to reach you from beyond the grave. A Medium is giving you the opportunity to communicate with this person through them. Do you believe this person? If so, who would you want it to be, and what would you want to tell them?

I habeeb it. It would have to be my dog, and I would like to tell it not to jump in front of moving traffic.

You're immortal. Do you work for the rest of your life, do you retire in the United States of America and live off Social Security ( while it lasts ), or some other crazy scheme?

I'd probably do a few things to make a lot of money quickly and then just sit back and relax for a little while, until I'm bored of that... Maybe I try to take over the world. Seems like a smart thing to do really when you are inmortal anyway. Maybe you can change something...

You're sig other is about to die in a terrible car accident. You can save here but you would lose your legs in the progress would you?

Yes, I would save him :wub: But he'd better carry me everywhere from then on! And buy me some decent prosthetics.

I once read a quote or heard a quote (obviously can't remember exactly), along the lines that it would be wise to lose an appendage to save your life, but foolish to lose your life to save an appendage (Well yeah! Would I really Need someone else's wisdom to make that decision??, but I digress..)- I apply the same thought to all I love and care about.



You have a once in a lifetime opportunity to go back into time and do a little tweaking; you are allowed to change one detail, wrecking havoc for the time to come (assuming of course, that historic moments are the results of decisive moments and not really the continuations of many events);

What historic detail would you change, and what consequences would you hope to bring about?