Morality Question of the Day - 11/27/09

[Thoreau]

You’ve just been taken hostage and a crazed gunman has given you a choice. Either you or the mother standing in the crowd next to you dies.

 

[Idle Mind]

I'd take death.

 

[draqon]

we're all heroes on words, but when it comes to reality we're saving our skins.

 

[kurros]

I don't think I can answer that one. I have no idea which way I'd actually go in such a situation, whether I would freak and beg for my life or accept death... I don't even know morally which I would choose if I was given a lot of time to think about it. Morally I believe in risking one's life for the chance to save others, but I don't really know what I think about definitely choosing one life over another. Just as I could not choose if it were two others I had to choose between while I was safe. Actually I think the latter choice would be easier...

 

[Orleander]

Nope, she's dying

 

[Enmos]

Let the gunman choose.

 

[shorty_37]

Easy one...

Since I am a mother as well, she will have to go.

 

[Lori_7]

You’ve just been taken hostage and a crazed gunman has given you a choice. Either you or the mother standing in the crowd next to you dies.

that ones easy. shoot me.

 

[visceral_instinct]

I like to think I'd die and save that mother.

 

[Orleander]

I like to think I'd die and save that mother.

If I was that mother standing next to you, I'd tell you to take the feces out of your pockets and fling it at the gunman's eyes. Then do a roundhouse.
Yeah!!!! VI, my hero :thankyou:

 

[John99]

There are ways to justify these things. We can tell ourselves 'if i let this gunman kill me now then how will i get the chance to kill him later?' or 'i have to stay alive to kill him to prevent him from killing others' etc.

 

[visceral_instinct]

If I was that mother standing next to you, I'd tell you to take the feces out of your pockets and fling it at the gunman's eyes. Then do a roundhouse.
Yeah!!!! VI, my hero :thankyou:

Looool!

 

[shichimenshyo]

Shoot me in the face!

 

[John99]

Shoot me in the face!

you just post that to make me look bad?

 

[John99]

:roflmao:

i am gettting rmbunctios. it coming on slow.

 

[shichimenshyo]

you just post that to make me look bad?

How could I possibly make you look bad?

 

[John99]

that it mishenko

 

[draqon]

yeah sure...everyone's here a hero. right.

 

[Nesm]

There are ways to justify these things. We can tell ourselves 'if i let this gunman kill me now then how will i get the chance to kill him later?' or 'i have to stay alive to kill him to prevent him from killing others' etc.

For sure. Like, what if I was on the brink of creating energy from rainbows - would I sacrifice my own life and surrender that knowledge and research for the sake of keeping a child's mommy alive? Would Tesla have been the better person for saving a child or preserving his own life?

Everyone's got a purpose packed destiny with a Glock to their face...for them that can see past that momentary delusion and bite the bullet - congratulations.

 

[LColburn86]

Say nothing. If you make no choice, you take no blame. Cuz its still wrong to kill urself too.