We need to make choices every day and think about our actions and their consequences. But you will see that they are not nearly as serious and difficult as the questions we’ve gathered here. This poll is full of scenarios that will require you to use your imagination. The ethical dilemmas that are here have no right or wrong answers. So, feel free to take a minute to think before you answer these tough questions. It’s best to think thoroughly about the consequences of your answers, as Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place would do! See whether the majority answers the same way.
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Do we keep shopping from brands and stores that we know treat their employees terribly but offer cheap prices and convenient next-day shipping?
I'm already quitting this thread, I can tell it's going to upset me. It's not that black and white. Yes if it was one bad company and lots of good ones and the difference wasn't very stark, most people would buy from the good ones. (And very poor people wouldn't, and I wouldn't judge that.). And if it's nearly every company and the few who are good cost five times as much, then almost nobody would. (Reality is closer to this, in many products.) The interesting question is where does each person flip from one to the other. What are your limits? What if you were richer than you are? What's do you think constitutes worse behaviour from a company vs another? *Those* are interesting ethical questions. Nobody can answer this one without making assumptions and then we can't tell anything from the answer if we don't know what assumptions were made.
"It's not that black and white." This. Ethical situations are almost never black or white. Case in point --- I am disabled, non-driving, elderly, and live right on the poverty line. I have to watch every dime. I have to have my groceries delivered, and I have to use a provider that takes food stamps and my insurance benefit card. There is only one option here for that - Walmart. Even with that, I have some food anxiety near the end of the month. Under other circumstances would I choose mom and pop stores rather than corporations who treat their employees badly? Of course I would! Ethical thought problems are useless if they ignore the problems of nuance and ambiguity.
Load More Replies...I've been trying to not shop from Walmart. Anything they sell I can find elsewhere. Amazon? I do shop from there time to time if I can't find something I'm looking for elsewhere. I'm not saying it's always cheap to avoid cheap brands, but convenience is not always cheap, either. Going to stores avoids having to pay delivery fees and tipping drivers. Since I'm Canadian, and we're encouraged to not buy USA products, that is not always so easy nor cheap, either. I have to admit I went for the American bacon on sale for $4.99 over the Canadian bacon that was around $7.99 (ballpark). Despite media telling us Canadians are not buying USA products is not entirely accurate. Lots of people are buying what they can afford, regardless of where it comes from. This is a stupid time for a trade war in this economy.
Weird how 48% of people said they wouldn't, even though they're all clearly lying because I can confidently say that at least most of them, like myself, still to it
Third option is "we try" but it's not always possible. Many bricks a mortar shops have stopped carrying items because they are online so there are no other options.
Load More Replies...I don’t buy from primark. They treat their employees like slaves and pay them very little. I don’t by EV again due to child slaves digging for cobalt
I’ll never buy an electric vehicle as long as I have a choice after I saw an expose on how the batteries are produced in Indonesia. Extremely confronting viewing.
Load More Replies...I have no other choice because I live in a small town and there is not another supplier.. and if you get another, then it is expensive or and unaffordable, so, no other choice
I continue shopping. Not because I'm okay with the way Amazon treats employees, but because so many other companies not only *totally* dropped the ball with online shopping, but they often think it's absolutely okay to charge €6,80 for shipping on a €3 object. I live very rural, while I can get to shops in towns, it's usually the same selections. Going to any sort of specialist shop would mean going to a major city and that's utterly impractical. So, Amazon it is...
At 60 yrs of age. N housebound living on next to nothing I, sorry but I am buying what I can afford , I’m not over a next dy person ie I don’t use Amazon ! EBay all the way lmao oh n time loves me temu , being a white witch I can get ll my supplies etc from there n clothes to , but food wise it’s Tesco as I also live in the sticks n only they deliver plus they easy to use
Here is an ethical dilemma that was asked in the TV show Fleabag: Would you trade five years of your life for the so-called ‘perfect body’?
I already hate my life, I'd trade 75% of it for a cookie or less lol
Would it remain a perfect body the rest of my life, no matter what I do our don't do? Because I'm sure I've spent much more than 5 cumulative years in the gym.
I would love to not have my disabilities and be able to do all activities that I can't anymore, and not deal with injuries... That's gotta be worth some years.
Load More Replies...I've been sick my entire adult life, surviving more than 30 abdominal surgeries, including a liver transplant. . I'm grateful for my life, particularly as I've never been sure I'd see tomorrow, much less the next 5 years. To spend even 1 day out of pain and strong, without all the issues caused by my auto-immune diseases would be worth all the rest of the pain-filled, useless days and/or years I might have had left
Yes, exactly! 5 years is nothing. "Perfect" is different to each of us. To me, if I could get up and do what I need and want to do...with energy, no pain...sign me up,! I'd give 20 years hahaha! I mean,nif I looked good, too, why not, but not necessary
Load More Replies...No such thing as the perfect body it does not exsist ! So unfair trade !!
No, my body is kind of shīt and my brain is quite obviously a quality control reject... BUT IT'S MINE. It's the biological shell that the ghost that is me is currently inhabiting.
I'm contemplating 4-10 years of slow decline due to Alzheimer's. Yes, I'd trade 5 years to avoid my fate.
You wake up with the ability to teleport anywhere, any time you want. However, every time you use this superpower, a random stranger somewhere in the world loses a day of their life. It could be a complete stranger or someone that you know. Would you use this power?
I live in modern developed society. Many of my seemingly innocuous choices likely cause more harm, including taking more than a single day off a random persons life. I’d otherwise have to live completely off grid with minimal to no participation in society.
Depends on context. What if I could teleport somewhere to prevent a murder or a disaster? to rescue a kidnap victim. Or what if it's your only chance to see your dying father? If it's for curiosity or because I want to gawp at a celebrity or eat actual greek food in Greece like now, then no. If it's to save a life, maybe. Or maybe not. That would be hard.
Anywhere any time. Yes, I'd use that. The random stranger doesn't die, they just lose a single day. There are far more things actively killing people (smoking, wars, pollution, etc) that the minuscule impact that I might make would be less than a rounding error. And if I was the random stranger? I'd never know as we don't have a fixed expiry date. Will I die at 71 because a bunch of people time travelled and I paid for it, or will it be cancer like my mom? Out will it be vCJD because I ate a cheap burger in a stall in a fairground back in the 80s? Or... maybe on Tuesday a large truck will attempt to overtake a tractor and I'll be collateral damage...? Or, perhaps, I'll be 86 and disabled and in severe pain and I'll be praying please please use your powers and charge it to my life. [note: I worked as a Care Assistant in nursing homes; I wouldn't wish that horror show upon myself, we as a civilisation need to understand that sometimes it is necessary to say "enough, let me go now"]
That one day could be very well be their last day , the day they are seeing their loved ones for the last time .
Load More Replies...Which is it? A "random stranger", or "a complete stranger or someone you know"?
I'd do a Marty McFly. Bring and almanac back and make millions winning the lottery..then use the money to help other people who need it.
Does the person 'losing' the day actually know that it was you causing it, or that, in fact, they 'lost' a day in the first place? As we raraely know when or where we'll die, who's to say anyone lost anything at all.
61% of people would think it's okay to shorten someone's life to fulfill a curiosity. Wow, I thought I was a cynical person already but I have to admit, I'm shocked.
Where does it say "curiosity?" As others have commented, I could go back and save a life. Or many lives. I could prevent a teen from successfully taking their own life due to online bullying. Stop a trafficker from taking a child. I could break that escalator in China before that poor woman stepped onto it. The only mention of "curiosity" in the comments is @Wombat specifically saying it's not a sufficient reason. I think the cynicism here might be yours.
Load More Replies...Nope ! that’s selfish ! n I’m perfect happy living in my little village in the sticks ty lol housebound n I live in a lotta pain on a lotta meds so if going else where means someone else gotta die that I don’t even know then NO ! Mind you make it an enemy as deserves it lmao then I’d say yes but let my kids use it !
I'm the reverse. I'd give up a day of my life to not have to go anywhere at all.
A family opens up a restaurant close to your place. You go to the restaurant one evening to try out some dishes. You see that the family is struggling to make ends meet and that they are very nice people. They ask you to write a positive review for their place. But the food was absolutely terrible. What would you do?
How about tell them the food is bad and if they don't improve it they will not be successful.
I can easily write a supportive, encouraging review that is, indeed, positive, without directly criticizing their food whilst encouraging others to participate in the evolution of their dishes & flavors.
I'd write a positive review about the great customer service without mentioning the food
I would write a positive review about the service. However, how can a business ever improve if the owners and staff don't receive honest constructive criticism? I wouldn't hesitate to let them know what was wrong with the food so they can make an improvement.
I'd tell them the food needs a lot of work prior to asking anybody for reviews, and that for a local place word of mouth is far more important than online reviews (which, these days, ought to be viewed with distrust - I always find and read the 1 star reviews first, and avoid anything that only has 5 star reviews). If they're serious then they'll appreciate the honestly and try to improve. If they get all defensive and shirty then, well, then they're not serious. Bye.
It doesn´t help the family to write a positive review when the food is bad because others will write a negative one. Better is to tell them the truth and help them to get better.
You encounter a genie who can offer you anything you wish for. But there is a catch, of course. Whatever you wish for, some money or a house, someone in the world will lose the same thing you wish for. Would you still wish for something?
Could you choose who loses their money or home? I'll go first - Elon Musk all the way!
I thought "brilliant" when I read your comment, but depending on how tricky the genie is, I'd probably end up with "a billionaire's fortune" of their collection of antique chamber pots or something.
Load More Replies...Sure. I'd wish for a billion dollars. There's not that many people in the world that have a billion dollars to lose, and they're all scum. Win/win.
I wish for the wealth of Elon Musk. I wonder who's gonna lose that much...
Simple, wish for the exact amount the richest man in the world has, that way he can be the only one to lose it :)
Ah, now this is something I learned while studying Wicca. If you're going to put energy out in the universe to improve your situation, you should think of all possible consequences and address those. So, if I make a wish, I'm going to word it in a way that would avoid someone else suffering for it. "I wish for more wealth and prosperity on all the good people in society, including myself and everyone, without penalty on anyone else." Something like that.
Funny I just commented on LakotaWolf's comment about totally messing up the wish!
Load More Replies...You’ve landed your dream job! But on your first day at the office, you learned that you were able to get this job because, unlike others, you speak Japanese. But, here is the thing: you do not speak Japanese. Do you tell them about it and possibly lose your dream job? Or do you wait until there is a point at which speaking Japanese will be required?
Uh, seeing as I’m going to get shítcanned as soon as the higher-ups find out (which could be on the first day on the job) I think I’d rather admit it, as trying to hide it for longer could get you blackbálled.
I would take it as a sign and learn Japanese as fast as absofuckinglutely possible.
I'm guessing this is about lying on your resume and having it backfire on you. Any "dream job" tends to quickly become a nightmare once you start working it and realizing it was all a facade seeing it from the outside. So, it doesn't matter. But it could still be a better job than your previous jobs. If you're going to be hired for one thing, you better have been honest.
If a job requires a skill that I don't possess then I wouldn't apply for it in the first place, whether it's my deeam job or not. Presumably being able to speak Japanese would have been mentioned in the job ad or during the interview.
Fess up and start making enquiries as to the competency of the manager(s) that made such a mistake. If they're going to drop me, might as well go out swinging.
The truth always outs so be truthful upfront it’s easier lol oh n the dream job along with the perfect body or man don’t exsist 😂
I mean, if they just assume out of nowhere I can speak Japanese, then that's on them.
I can't even get my head round the idea that the employer believes I can speak Japanese. I think I'm going to go with Rick. Because I certainly wouldn't have been the person who told them I could.
You are a soldier protecting your country. You come across 3 abandoned baby koalas in the bushes. They all start crying. The enemy will find you if the noise continues. If you smother the baby koalas, everyone else will survive. If you don’t, everyone will probably not survive. Do you sacrifice the baby koalas?
I'd get the heck away from the koalas, so the enemy can figure out what to do with them
I'll give my M16 rifle and a few grenades to the koalas, and tell them where the poachers are hiding. I've had enough of this stupid war anyway.
Load More Replies...Just another variation of the same old ethics question. This one is ridiculous. Why would your enemy think to look for soldiers in the bushes if they hear baby koalas?
If there's baby koalas, then there's other animals in the forest. A sudden stop in their cries would tip off that someone did something to stop the animals from making noise too suddenly. I don't think I would do anything but get out of the range of the animals.
Again, it's not that black and white. There are plenty of other options besides death.
I'm hearing S*****e is Painless AND Jean Luc Picard playing a flute at the same time on this one.
You live in the future when science allows you to get your terminally ill child cloned. This process would create an identical person with their memories and personality traits, but you would know it’s a clone. Would you clone them?
As much as I love my daughter and I hope nothing more bad happens to her, I wouldn't clone her. Nothing could possibly replace her. Not even a clone of her. It would become another person but it wouldn't be the same as my real daughter.
Yes it would. That's literally cloning. Its the EXACT same person.
Load More Replies...I lost my 5 year old to cancer in 1996, you d**n well better believe you would do anything to get your kid back. This still hurts to this day.
No way, I think it would be disrespectful to the real child. Grief keeps the memories of the deceased alive in our minds, having a replacement to take over when your child dies would literally just rewrite their history and people wouldn't be able to grieve properly. Also clones most likely wouldn't be exactly the same as the original child. They'd physically look identical but their personality could be completely different, just like with identical twins. Also if the original child had a terminal illness then wouldn't the clone have the same issue? (Unless their dna is altered to prevent it, but wouldn't that mean they wouldn't be an identical clone?)
You and a small group are stranded on an island with a limited amount of food sources. One person is quite weak and unlikely to make it. Do you share the food equally anyway or prioritize according to who is likely to make it?
You can always eat the weakest anyway so think of feeding them as a living refrigerator
Better to all have some food than no food ! but then your in a island ffs lots of sea full of FISH ! quickly learn to fish problem solved lol and scout the island for edible plants fruits etc n animals again problem solved am I the only logical one 😂
A humanoid has been examined, and it has been concluded that it developed emotions and self-awareness. You are the only one who could destroy it. Getting rid of it would be like killing a conscious being, but keeping it alive might become dangerous in the future. Would you destroy it?
The key word is "might". Anything might be dangerous in the future.
You mean "humanoid robot", not just "humanoid", as humans are humanoid, too. Humanoid is simply a word used to describe something that is human-like.
This one’s easy ! Exterminate exterminate exterminate ! As the daleks say lol quickly to !it will become dangerous and likely quickly to !!! exterminate n melt down !
Okay, so Skynet, but also Sunny from I, Robot. XD Hard choice!
One day, you wake up and realize that you now have the ability to hear people's thoughts. You discover someone will commit a serious crime. If you report them, no one will believe you because you don’t have any evidence. Also, you’d expose your unusual ability, which might potentially make you a target. If you do nothing, an innocent person could be harmed. What would you do?
Again, the key here is 'could'. You don't know a person will be harmed or not.
You are the first human to make contact with an intelligent alien species. They say they would spare your life only if you don’t tell anyone about it. Would you tell someone anyway or keep quiet?
Then 19% of people that have made contact will have told someone, and word would spread.
Load More Replies...Keep quiet on the basis that we keep communicating - as I have so many questions (starting with "why the eff did you come to this dump? are you lost?").
No one would believe me, anyway, and I'm sure someone would send me to the looney bin. I'd keep quiet.
So 80% of us would keep quiet?! What if you're threatened by PEOPLE who say they would spare your life only if you don’t tell anyone about it? Would you tell someone anyway or keep quiet?
If they were searching the universe for intelligent life and had come to earth, I'd give them directions to where they can find the dolphins.
So you'd be the only human left. I'd tell and just die with the rest of humanity.
Yea umm its the people right here on Earth im afraid of. You guys have a terrible conscience! 😆
You are a journalist who uncovers a terrible scandal that might bring down a powerful leader. However, exposing the truth will cause harm to innocent people and destabilize the whole country, affecting millions of people. What would you do?
I’m not in USA uk here but that was my first thought 😂would Sid person be the Oompa Loompa by any chance 😂
Load More Replies...Is he orange? Doesn't matter what he's done, he's got absolute immunity thanks to radical Republicans.
Yup the orange ooompa Loompa needs eradicating fast n ok English lol well half Welsh but not in USA n I feel for you guys x
Load More Replies...If you let the evil leader continue to be evil, more people will be hurt in the long run.
They need to be exposed because if it does those things that means the country was a house of cards to begin with and I'm not one to support short term gains for long term losses. 1 person shouldn't be that influential on an entire system. We should have systems in place that don't rely on 1 person to get things done.
If it meant getting rid of a very dangerous person n ooompa Loompa then yes I so would !! n I’m not in the us lol
If he's been a good leader, the country will withstand the shock of the disclosure. If he's been a bad one, he is already destabilizing the country and should be brought down.
Sorry BP, I chose to NOT expose it (I'm no warrior journalist) so why are you highlighting the opposite option?
Yes it's doing that to my votes too, I've given up
Load More Replies...You see that a building is burning. A child and five elderly people are trapped in it. They are in different places, and you have a very limited time, so you have to choose. You could only save the child or the group of elderly people. Who do you save?
I'd teleport back to before the fire, save them all, and cost someone one day.
The other question was teleportation, not time travel
Load More Replies...All the oldies I know would say save the child. But I'd start with the nearest, I couldn't go past one to save the other
If the elderly would mean any harm to the world, they wouldn't be there but in prison or office. The child could grow up to be bad, though. So I might save the world. Edit: So, obvious choice for the elderly.
Oh, blimey. I didn't expext to get any upvotes for this sick logic. I'm scared now.
Load More Replies...I’d save the child lol unless Stephanie has already sorted it no pressure Stephanie 😂 Btw define elderly lol I’m 60 now sooooooo u do mean like 80 plus right ??
And the part of the question that you only find out afterwards: The child that you saved turns out to be an angry fāscīst dictator that brings misery and death to hundreds of millions...
Or one of the elderly people is a billionaire whose companies are directly responsible for the suffering of millions. Could go either way. And keeping that in mind, the way I see it, the child has potentially many more years on the planet, so the risks are offset by the potential for much greater reward for mankind as a whole.
Load More Replies...You accidentally find a winning lottery ticket that initially belonged to someone that you know. The person who lost it didn’t know the ticket had won. And probably no one will ever find out what really happened, but it will weigh on your conscience. What would you do?
I don't know why you're being downvoted for this; I'd do exactly the same. I guess it's not technically one of the options but there's no stipulations on how you spend the money so spend it on them in the form of blue-chip stocks that they can immediately sell for cash.
Load More Replies...Depends on whether the owner is someone I like. If so, I give him the ticket. If not... I give the ticket to someone I like so he can use it. I'd rather be petty than rich.
That’s what I said lol I’m not sure I even know what it means 😂
Load More Replies...Then there's this story (in French): https://www.bfmtv.com/toulouse/des-voleurs-remportent-500-000-euros-aux-jeux-a-gratter-achetes-avec-sa-carte-bleue-il-leur-propose-de-partager-les-gains_AN-202502210294.html Briefly: two homeless thieves bought a scratch card with a stolen credit card. The card won €500,000 but the prize has been frozen due to the stolen card. The card owner is appealing to the thieves to get in touch to split the winnings with them, as his card bought the ticket and their luck chose that particular one. As far as I'm aware, they've not come forward.
Isn't there a proof of purchase, or something to show you are the real owner of the ticket?
The lottery usually states that the holder of the ticket, though arguments can be made if a person can justify always playing the same numbers at the same place and can say exactly when they bought the ticket... This almost happened to me. I found two Euromillions tickets in a car park. Nobody was around. I picked them up to put them in the bin but changed my mind when I saw that they were valid. They didn't win so I avoided that problem.
Load More Replies...What’s a Conscience 🤔have I got one of them hmmm , now it depends if the said person I know is one that’s decent person or not if they ain’t then I’m keeping it !!
Your friend has the most amazing spouse that makes them happy. They think they have found the one. At a dinner party, you hear the spouse talking to someone about how they got together in the first place, and you hear that it’s because of a bet. What would you do?
Just because it was a bet doesn’t mean the spouse isn’t happy & in love. That it was initiated in such a way has little to no bearing on how the relationship develops. At a time I was reveling in being single with no accountability to anyone, some friends dared me to go on a date with a friend of theirs that I met independently of them. We chatted daily online whilst I was visiting his/their city, 2500 miles from mine. It was a dare to go out with him & most of these friends had bet I wouldn’t go through with it. We just celebrated our 20th anniversary. All thanks to a dare & some bets.
Ecclesiastes 7:21,22: "Don't eavesdrop on others—you may hear your servant curse you. For you know how often you yourself have cursed others." Even if you don't believe in the Bible's teachings, it's very good advice.
In a situation like this it is best to keep quiet. Nobody will thank you for exposing the truth.
If they are happy now, who cares? And how do you know that the spouse hasn't already fessed. Button it.
This reminds me of 10 Things I Hate About You. In this case, don't mention anything. It usually doesn't go in your favour to meddle in other's relationships.
I’m saying NOTHING ! unless he’s a complete a*****e to her ! Other wise happy anniversary may there be many more !
First, the other spouse may be well aware of the bet. Second, what does it matter? I met my wife because I was making a speech on collective bargaining at a union conference. Not very romantic - but things worked out to be.
There is a memory-erasing technology that allows you to forget about the painful things that happened in your past. But there is a slim chance that it might also delete some of your happy memories. What would you do?
My unhappy memories inform who I am more than the happy ones. It’s that way for most people. Trauma aside.
Right. I think all my best qualities were formed by my hardest times. I can say without a doubt im a kick butt fun mom. My kids tell me everyday they feel lucky. My mom tried to Reba McIntyres Fancy me multiple times before i could drive a car.
Load More Replies...The traumatic memories have revealed who people really are in my life. I still love my good memories.
It's not so much that I'd want to erase bad memories, but that I'd want to prevent them from having happened in the first place. Those things that caused the bad memories would still exist, and even if you never remembered them, they could still affect you because other people would remember.
Many of the experiences which provide me happy memories might not have occurred if not for the lessons learned from my unhappy memories.
I already think Alzheimer as a blessing, because you just forget.. i would trade ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING for forgetting the pain. EVERYTHING without blinking
A new device could show you what might have become of your life had you made different choices in the past. Would you use it to see what could have happened, even though it might cause you pain and confusion?
I already have this device. It is called “my brain at 2am when I’m trying to fall asleep”.
I have social anxiety. I hate talking to a group even friends. I hate talking to strangers (even 1) 3 years ago i went to a Georgian Memorial Feast. I knew one person there. Id never met the deceased. I see people doing their Georgian toasts and its beautiful but it gets to me and his wife asks me to say something?! I dont even know what words i said before i hit the floor (i dont drink, i toasted with water). After i was so embarrassed and everyone kept saying it was no big deal and we'd all forget about it the next morning. EVERY SINGLE DAY, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT...i think of it.
Load More Replies...No one can change the past, so why borrow pain and trouble? Make better choices from here forward, based on what's already been done.
Unless this could be coupled with going back and redoing things, it's just stupid unnecessary grief that falls right into the coulda/shoulda/woulda that my brain excels in doing when I'm supposed to be asleep (just like LakotaWolf).
Having had a kid in my teens, I am curious to know what would have happened if I never chatted with that girl at the bus stop, who introduced me to the guy I later realized was an a*****e groomer. I would like to know if I'd have been a successful animator or work on creating video games, or if I would have finished college, at all. I imagine I would be still childless, maybe. Or maybe something more terrible would have happened to me. Either way, though, I have the life I have and I'm not entirely down about it.
I’d use it ! to see if I could have life free of abuse for way to many yrs ! and a few other things , it’s something I’ve always wanted to know
Depends on whether there was someting good on television that night.
A brilliant scientist is terminally ill. She was about to discover a cure that would have saved millions of lives. Even though her body is not salvageable, her mind can be transferred to someone else’s to complete her studies. You are the only person whom they can transfer her mind to. Would you sacrifice your life and let them transfer her mind to you?
A brain isn't necessarily where all her genius lies. The soul is the personality; the drive, the passion, the way the person uses their brain. Transferring a 'mind' is vague and no guarantee of her work continuing.
I do have some related experience in such matters. I already have served as a brain donor.
You wake up in a creepy room with only two doors. You have forgotten who you are, what you do — even your name. They say you have to choose one room. If you go through the first door, you are guaranteed to have the perfect life, but you could never find out about your real life before. Or you could go through the second door to reality, where you have an imperfect yet real life. What would you do?
If I was guaranteed a "perfect" life then I wouldn't be sad that I didn't know my old life
If your perfect life occurs you wouldn’t be sad.
Load More Replies...The problem is: My answer is formed by my character which is shaped by my memories. If I lost my memory, I have no idea what I'd choose.
Exactly. My first thought was I'd choose my old life because that's where my husband is but then I realized, I would have no idea of his existence, let alone my love for him.
Load More Replies...Reality, thanks. Notice the imperfect life states reality. Makes we wonder if the perfect life is really a drūg induced illusion. Your body will be degrading rapidly but you'll be on cloud nine so won't care.
The first option foolishly assumes that I in fact have a real life.
What if my 'perfect' life includes memories of the old one? Without those memories, it isn't perfect.
Second door easy ! I’d miss my kids n dogs , cos being a witch , my memory would always come back !
You witness a crime, and you know who the criminal is. Based on how the trial is going, telling the truth would convict an innocent person rather than the guilty one while letting the real criminal walk free due to the lack of evidence. Do you lie to make sure that justice is served?
Is this a trick question? It's not the witness who's job it is to manipulate the results of a trial. You cannot possibly predict what will happen.
Why would telling the truth lead to the innocent person being convicted?
The truth might show that the defendent had means, motive, or opportunity. He can still be innocent while possessing all of those, but each makes the case against him more credible to the jury.
Load More Replies...Tell the truth. If it's a miscarriage of justice that can be worked on afterwards. Plus it's not up to a witness to perjure themselves in some daft attempt to manipulate the trial which - if found out - could result in a mistrial. Just tell the truth and if the wrong conclusions are drawn then it's on the court, not you.
If the evidence I give is 'the truth' but an innocent person will get convicted, then why the hell are we having a trial (to get at 'the truth') in the first place.
The premises are false. It's not up to a single witness to manipulate the trial, there are too many variables. Besides, telling the truth would imply that I'm telling who the criminal is. How would that convict an innocent person? Who is writing this nonsense?
Telling the truth might not identify the guilty party. It might only raise a reasonable doubt about the accused's guilt, which is all that's needed for acquittal in most courts.
Load More Replies...Easy lie ! criminals are inherently thick n wouldn’t notice lol n I couldn’t handle seeing an innocent person locked up ! Oh look there’s that conscience thing 😂that’s what it is lol learn something new every day 😂! Criminal you is going down !!
There is a new device that allows you to create your perfect match, and you’re about to initiate the process. You can choose everything about their personality and set their looks to match whoever you want precisely. The catch is that the people who you want your match to look like will be notified. Would you still go through with it?
You have the ability to save a busload of orphans from destruction, but doing so would cost you the use of your legs forever, what do you do? A) Ketchup or B) Mustard
If such a machine existed, certain celebrities would be endeavouring to receive as many notifications as possible to brag with, just like likes. Beyond that, a "perfect match" made by myself would be an uninspired echo, lacking the creative madness and hidden, inspiring surprises that make up a real human.
I'd pick someone no longer living, provided my person resembles that person in their prime. I doubt they'd object.
Why would it all be about looks? I think personality and inner values are way more important. Yes attraction is also important but I find that if someone is kind and beautiful on the inside that is more attractive than having a pretty face!
Too many false dilemmas here - there's often a third way. I'm looking for not so much loopholes as missing doors.
Agree. There are variations of actions for many of these dilemmas, which can't be answered in a yes or no format. This is what makes us human.
Load More Replies...Such ridiculously convoluted scenarios with only black/white answers. We have brains, guys, and thus can usually think out a different way.
All these quizzes and surveys are just clandestine market research c**p, isn't it BP?...
If you could go back in time and k**l baby Trump without being caught, would you?
I think people are missing the point that these questions are just another version of "The Trolley Problem" YES there is usually another way but in these instances there are ONLY 2 outcomes. Everyone here s******g on this has completely missed the point of the exercise.
I don't think anyone's missed that point. But why would we need so many other even more far-fetched versions of it? It's only a thought experiment designed to make you think, most of these are so ridiculous that you couldn't even imagine having to make a choice.
Load More Replies...Logically all u gotta do with these is don’t over think em lol , n they become amusing 😂
Too many false dilemmas here - there's often a third way. I'm looking for not so much loopholes as missing doors.
Agree. There are variations of actions for many of these dilemmas, which can't be answered in a yes or no format. This is what makes us human.
Load More Replies...Such ridiculously convoluted scenarios with only black/white answers. We have brains, guys, and thus can usually think out a different way.
All these quizzes and surveys are just clandestine market research c**p, isn't it BP?...
If you could go back in time and k**l baby Trump without being caught, would you?
I think people are missing the point that these questions are just another version of "The Trolley Problem" YES there is usually another way but in these instances there are ONLY 2 outcomes. Everyone here s******g on this has completely missed the point of the exercise.
I don't think anyone's missed that point. But why would we need so many other even more far-fetched versions of it? It's only a thought experiment designed to make you think, most of these are so ridiculous that you couldn't even imagine having to make a choice.
Load More Replies...Logically all u gotta do with these is don’t over think em lol , n they become amusing 😂
