OT: Moral dilemma!

Pat EAXStitch · 2005-05-06T10:35:57+00:00

Here's a dilemma for you, what would you do?This test has only one question, but it's a very important one. Pleasedon't answer it without giving it some serious thought. By giving anhonest answer you will discover where you stand morally. The testfeatures an unlikely, completely fictional situation, in which you willhave to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest,yet spontaneous. Please scroll down slowly and consider each line.Thoughtfulness is important for this evaluation to be Meaningful!Ready?Begin.You're in Florida (In Miami, to be exact). There is chaos around you,caused by a hurricane and severe floods. This is a flood of biblicalproportions.You are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper, caught in themiddle of this great disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and peopleswirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is showingall its destructive fury.You see a man in the water; he is fighting for his life, trying not to betaken away with the water and debris.You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar. Suddenly, you know whoit is. It's George W Bush.At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take himunder, forever.You have two options. You can save him or you can take the most dramaticphotos of your life.So, you can save the life of George W Bush, or you can shoot a PulitzerPrize winning photo, documenting the demise of one of the world's mostpowerful men.Now here's the question (please give an honest answer):Would you select colour film, or rather go with the classic simplicity ofblack and white?

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Dr. Brat 21 years ago

If one is unusually hard-headed, it's not likely to have any effect.

Elizabeth

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen 21 years ago

Well You see mrs PP , unlike you i can`t bring myself to send you , or for that matter on any public NGs lists or such, any material , that i suspect might harm other people`s feelings. I would never send you, the jokes about Soldeirs in fighting , nore about people in wheelchairs . It is Ok if your grandson tells you or his friends some of those jokes , it is Not right for me to tell such things to you. This is My moral choice . As to my answer, it wasn`t evasive. I don`t believe in Being Clever After the deed. Your dillema , would have been rational , had i been older , knowing what i know now , and than put in the situation. Since i cannot do it, = Live 60 years before now with the knowledge i have now, I can not answer it. If you call this evading a sensible answer ? that is your problem , not mine. As you might recall i do historical research, I read what people thought at the time. It is so easy from my position now `to judge`, and say :Hey they took the wrong decision, [ not that they had much choice] ". I learned that one should not judge if one wasn`t in same position" , a Moral point of view which i think Started this debate in the first place. I told you that from a point of view of somebody who had to make a similar choice , this wasn`t funny. mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen 21 years ago

Haa !!! Elizabeth !!! I was wondering where you were ??? and how long it will take you to join the pack ??? mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen 21 years ago

Lucre tia!! Before delleting this letter i reread it....

I tottaly agree with you that every should laugh, [ and by the way i laugh daily at many things] Our only disagreement is about what we should laugh about. I find it Immoral to laugh about Human distress. Human stupid mistakes , a phenomena common to us all ,[not one group specificly], is ok to laugh about. Personal jokes, are good in personal circumstances. mirjam

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