02 Aug 09
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car?
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by generalissimoTake the old lady to the hospital.
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car?
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by jb70or, you can run over the old lady with your car (therefore ending her misery), "get intimate" with the perfect partner on the back of the car, and then drive off with the old friend for a few beers.
Let your old friend drive the old lady to hospital and you stop with the perfect partner.
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by generalissimoYou didn't really expect to get serious responses, did you?
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car?
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by generalissimoHow big are number 2's hooters?
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car?
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by generalissimoWhip out your trusty cell. Call 911 for the old lady and a taxi for your loyal friend (or dream girl if she has no reciprocal interest in you).
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car?
😉
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by generalissimoThe only moral issue is wether or not to save the old lady from the weather, as my friend would understand either way, and the girl wouldn't know who I was if I left her there anyway.
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car?
So, I would pick up the old lady and ask my friend to take the girl to the nearest pub where I would meet them later.
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by generalissimoOk here we go with a try in moral analysis:
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,
when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car?
You see people at a bus stopü waiting for a bus, so we have to assume, that there is a reasonable bus service and the people have enough money for fare. Nothing unusual so far, since if we are drivers we will pass bus stops with waiting people regularly.
Now for the complications:
* An Old Lady who looks as if she was about to sie.
Correct: seh looks like that. But we are not in the medical profession and we don't know her, and it could be that she was just looking that way. No need to interfere.
Even if we knew that she was about to die we have a few more moral problems. Do we know what to do to keep her from dying? If not can we offer anything ion terms of consolation?
If you want to pepper your dilemma you should say you know that she will die if you won't take her to hospital pronto!
*An old friend who once saved your life. A commendable person. Picking him (just for the sake of clarity I will refer to the person as if being a man, under the premise that the gender is not the problem here).up is only the slightest form of paying back. However: do we know where that friend wants to go. Are we sure we can deliver him faster than his bus. If he is such a nice person, will he insist on being transported by you? Picking up one of the others will be of quite natural politeness for him.(even her, if we regard sex as decisive here) If said friend had an eye on you both of you should have moved faster!
* The perfect partner you have been dreaming about?
Be aware: You can't know that. Even if we have the impression that the BODY of said person (or what we see of it) is perfect in terms of your secret dreams, what do we knao about the souls? Oh yes looks are important (who wants a partner whose image xe can't stand), but if you ask any old couple you will hear that relationship is many more hours than sex, and you don't know any of the prefernces in that way for the person you are reffering to.
Solution. This is not an ethical dilemma at all since:
* your information is far from what you infer that it is.
* you don't take into account the others wishes. (Even if said person was YOUR dream partenr, are you hers/his? your frined can have different views on politeness than "paying back easily), the elder Lady may just naturally look as if she would die and would be furious if you suggested otherwise...
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by divegeester"1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die."
The only moral issue is wether or not to save the old lady from the weather, as my friend would understand either way, and the girl wouldn't know who I was if I left her there anyway.
So, I would pick up the old lady and ask my friend to take the girl to the nearest pub where I would meet them later.
Faulty assumption. You may or may not be able "to save the old lady"
depending on the distance to the hospital and your own EMT Skills.
02 Aug 09
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyGood point, but isn't the morality in the trying not the succeeding?
"1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die."
Faulty assumption. You may or may not be able "to save the old lady"
depending on the distance to the hospital and your own EMT Skills.
edit: if she was not actually dying I'd take to meet my friend and the girl for dinner.
02 Aug 09
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThat's irrelevant in the pursuit of a moral act. Your decision on how to proceed is made on the basis of available premises. If she looks like she is about to die and knowing nothing else about the situation, then the moral thing to do would be to do your best to save her.
"1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die."
Faulty assumption. You may or may not be able "to save the old lady"
depending on the distance to the hospital and your own EMT Skills.
In fact this entire puzzle has only one moral imperative and that is to help the old woman. The other two options do not weigh heavy in the moral balance at all (unless you value human life less than sex or camaraderie). The clever thing to do is to get your friend to take the old lady to hospital, so you can fulfil your desires with the dream girl, but that is a choice made from selfishness, not good morals.
02 Aug 09
Originally posted by Starrmanmoral or not, I still think my answer was the best one.
That's irrelevant in the pursuit of a moral act. Your decision on how to proceed is made on the basis of available premises. If she looks like she is about to die and knowing nothing else about the situation, then the moral thing to do would be to do your best to save her.
In fact this entire puzzle has only one moral imperative and that is to help the ...[text shortened]... your desires with the dream girl, but that is a choice made from selfishness, not good morals.
everybody wins (except the old lady)