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[eIn07912]

I think the bigger issue is what kind of sick person asks such as that? Especially if it's just an English conversation class. For christ's sake man.

Of course you save the child. Prego wife or not. The fetus isn't a person yet. I would guess that any mother or wife would insist on saving the living breathing child.

Bad call on asking that question though. You should apologize to the class for putting them in that situation.

[freethought]

[eIn07912]

[Privateer]

[Privateer]

[Privateer]

Looks like we've all been reading the same books. Dawkins, Pinker, etc.

[kabrams]

1. Don't deliver to the mob, even if the person (in my opinion) deserves whatever is coming to him.

7. Uh, help the person to the best of my abilities while trying to remain safe. AIDS also isn't a death sentence. One of the biggest reasons why so many people die of illnesses related to AIDS is because they have inadequate health care or no health care at all.

8. I give the woman her ticket back. There's a story out now about an old man who was tricked into giving his $1 million lotto ticket back to the clerk, who then cashed it and disappeared.

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[BoholDiver]

My mom once asked me: Who is #1 to you: your wife or child? I promptly answered 'my child', and my dad scoffed.

His reason: People who base their marriage around their children 100% and not each other, when the nest is empty, they find they have nothing left.

After some more thought, I agree, but I still think my child is #1 to me.

[kinerry]

[Lunar Groove Gardener]

* What if the child had catastrophic mental disabilities, or the wife were pregnant with another lover's child?
* What if the person in the jail was a vicious, convicted serial rapist/murderer recaptured and the guard's life was at risk?
* What if the accident victim with AIDs was your brother?
* What if the lottery ticket holder was a wealthy American banker?
* Or what if you needed that lottery money for expensive medical treatments for your child?

**If you found a purse with $5,000.00 cash as well as credit cards etc.,
would you consider taking the cash and then returning the rest of the items anonymously? What about $50,000.00? Many would.

The most common rationale is along the lines of:
"At least I didn't use the credit cards etc."
"The money could well have been taken before I found the purse."
or "As long as I cannot be convicted of a crime, I can justify it."

I would like to think that I'd follow the rule of 'Karma', but who can say for certain? Not I. The urge to take the windfall might be too strong, given that there are no risks of legal/social consequences at all.

Perhaps the most telling of moral questions are answered by what we do when we know that nobody else can possibly find out about our actions.

Asking these questions forces us to examine ourselves and the good people that we hold ourselves up to be. To question in earnest, recognize and acknowledge the very real presence of personal flaws such as selfishness, fear, uncertainty, movable morality and greed.

Those with only one answer are perhaps seeing things too "clearly", or not. The whole struggle of ethics and morality often hinges upon situational components such as the presence of absence of consequences, to which even the purest of heart and mind may indeed acquiesce.

[IMF crisis]

To the people who are suggesting that the OP was out of line asking such questions: have you ever talked with any Korean adults before? This sort of question is very common here, but in the Korean version there are no bridges involved-two people fall in the the water and you have to choose which one to rescue first. I've been asked this sort of thing more than once by Koreans. Most often is having to choose between your mom and your wife, which makes sense in Korea where an oldest son may live with both and have to choose between two on a regular basis.

[shamham]

[Passions]

Save the child. The wife most likely has an insurance policy.

[Samurai Blur]

Hah! How do any of you even survive in the real world with the nonsense you get so upset over. It's a question designed to make you think. OMG! The end of the world! OP you're so sick!!! Grow up...