Questioning your morals/ethics

[ckBejug]

My brain is mush from too much studying and all this talk of politics is giving me a headache. So I am going to start my own thread and see if I have any takers....

Answer me this. After you all post your answers I shall enlighten you as to where this question came from.

What would you do? You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy, freezing cold, horrible 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 and you have no chance whatsoever to go back and help someone else. You've got one ride to give. That's all.

[ckBejug]

My answer:

I will give you later...

[anileve]

My answer:

1) I’ll call an ambulance for the old lady, who is about to die, for all I know she could be a guy in drag, pretending to die so that he can rob me blind.

2) Wave to my friend and tell her/him “I’ll call you later”

3) Tell my perfect partner “Can I stir your coffee” (Recent line I heard what the f?) and then write my number with my lipstick on his hand, if he’s puuurfect for me he’ll call.

4) Drive away in my car to continue enjoying the solitude and the thrill of driving on a wild, stormy, freezing cold, horrible night and think about how toasty it is in my car.

[surferarmo]

First of all, if I was driving on a stormy night, my attention would be focused on the road rather than the sidewalk. I like to look and see if hotties are strolling along. Anyway, had I even noticed them:

1. The old lady is going to die, what good does it do to take her.

2. My friend: "I will see you tomorrow"

3. I would stop at the bus stop, take the partner, back seat, then drop her off at my house for a re-run. I would proceed to awake the next morning, take her to Dennys and pull the "I have to go to the bathroom" trick when the check comes. Meanwhile I am sprinting out the door and screeching from the driveway leaving her and the check out of sight and mind.

Is that ethical enough for you?

But seriously:

I would pick up the partner because of this. I could help the old lady who wouldnt even wake up the next day, she wouldnt remember!

I could pick up my friend, and whatever, we are still friends.

I could pick up the hottie, find the love of my life, get married and have a life time of joy (or just on reserve for those unlucky weekends)

Answer: Pick up the hottie

[dstyle]

Give my friend my keys, and let him take the old lady home. chill with the hottie. is that sufficient

[Anonymouse]

I would drive over all of them.

xxxx them, it was they who made me dwell on this question to begin with, so they gotta go.

[anileve]

Originally posted by dstyle Give my friend my keys, and let him take the old lady home. chill with the hottie. is that sufficient

Excellent choice, very creative!

[omniscient]

Re: Questioning your morals/ethics

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.

I thought about this one for a few minutes because it really questions your morals. after thinking about the situation, if it was really that BAD of a night, i would pull over, tell my friend to take my car and tell him to take the old lady with him. and that would leave me and my perfect partner, and i would make a nice night out of it with just me and her, getting to know everything about her, just me and her all alone on this stormy night. i would make her forget about the weather. i could have been a lot more detailed in my answer but you get the idea

[Artsakhtsi]

I would choose my old friend, coz i love her tooo much

Screw this "perfect" partner, if it ment to be he'll show up later

[surferarmo]

Originally posted by Artsakhtsi I would choose my old friend, coz i love her tooo much

Screw this "perfect" partner, if it ment to be he'll show up later

I hate that "if it is meant to be" xxxx. What do you mean by that? Are you trying to say that it is up to some force, and not your own effort that two people be together? It was meant to be that you saw that person standing there, so why not act on that?

"Its meant to be" is an excuse for lack of responsibility, and for someone who is afraid of commitment for any reason.

I have gone off on people on random people I dont even know for saying this xxxx. I am not mad at you, just that stupid ass dumb xxxx saying that women have been saying after watching movies like "Sleepless in Seattle."

(Cooling down now, stepping away from the computer, going to break something in house...)