Interesting philosophical question :)

[TheGoldenGriffin]

I have a question. Would you rather walk around with no house or no clothes? Saying stuff like,"no house cuz i live in an apartment" is cheating.

[Wildt4lon]

It depends. If I'm in a normal country then...No clothes. You will suffer from extreme embarrassment and maybe mild hypothermia, but you could buy more clothes. If I had no house I'd rather die than face the stress of debt and money shortage.(you will need to buy a house)
If I'm in, say, an extreme condition, I would walk around with clothes but no house- live with the Inuit (live in tents) mwahaha!

[Mag!cGuy]

Another one:

You're in a village invaded by soldiers who kill everyone they see. You and some other villagers are hidden in a house. Soldiers are approaching, seeing if there are people around. They don't see any of you, but your baby is starting to cry. You can make him be quiet by putting your hand on his mouth, but if you do it too long, your baby will of course die. If soldiers hear the baby, everyone in the ouse is gonna be killed. So, would you kill your own baby or let him cry?

For the first dilemma, I would personnaly would pull the lever. But I wouldn't push the fat man. ^^

[Wildt4lon]

Easy. Kill the baby. Jk. I would try and kill the soldiers. If that's not possible, I would ask someone else to take the baby, and offer myself as a distraction in order for the rest of them to get away.
Though I doubt that you will be invaded by psychopath soldiers anytime soon.

[Taytaydu4]

(01-27-2013 09:01 AM)W1cked21 Wrote:  Another one:

You're in a village invaded by soldiers who kill everyone they see. You and some other villagers are hidden in a house. Soldiers are approaching, seeing if there are people around. They don't see any of you, but your baby is starting to cry. You can make him be quiet by putting your hand on his mouth, but if you do it too long, your baby will of course die. If soldiers hear the baby, everyone in the ouse is gonna be killed. So, would you kill your own baby or let him cry?

For the first dilemma, I would personnaly would pull the lever. But I wouldn't push the fat man. ^^

Aha wow. I was just about to post the baby one....
Whenever I ask anyone that, if they have kids they almost always say they would let the baby. But when asking non parents all my friends said they would kill the baby...

[Dr.LASR]

I'd cover the baby's mouth, and not the nose...?

[TheGoldenGriffin]

This happened in a book I read in school. They made the baby eat sleep medicine to keep it quiet so the soldiers won't hear them.

[Dr.LASR]

(01-27-2013 10:32 AM)TheGoldenGriffin Wrote:  This happened in a book I read in school. They made the baby eat sleep medicine to keep it quiet so the soldiers won't hear them.

Seem's legit. You're gonna just happen to have sleep medicine that works before he'll suffocate, which is hard to find in a pharmacy, let along a house.

[TheGreatErenan]

The crying baby scenario famously happened in the old television show M.A.S.H., except it was a chicken. It also kind of happened in Quigley Down Under (not depicted, only talked about in a past-revealing monologue).

(01-22-2013 09:36 PM)brayton Wrote:  Might make a good interactive novel or game, titled MORAL.... Dun dun dahhh!!!

There is actually a flash game about the Trolley Problem. It is here.



So no one likes telenovelas? Is that what I'm gathering? j/k

[TheGoldenGriffin]

Whats a telenovelas? Is that a tv show for books?