And Your Point Is?!

[NavyGuy7]

Present a view on a subject. Defend, or whatever. We will discuss.
Doesn't matter what it is, so long as it provokes ideas and we don't get too many people spoiling the fun. If I see a discussion is going nowhere, the topic will change. If you want to discuss that other issue further, go post another thread about it.
OK?
Pretty simple, i think.
I'll wait a while for someone to post an idea... if not, I'll just go post one myself.
Then we will discuss.
And, hopefully, we will see your point.

 

[NavyGuy7]

You and your family have been kidnapped by someone playing a sick game. When you wake up, a table with a gun stands between you and your family, tied up to a stake. Then you are presented a choice, via an intercomm.

"Shoot yourself, or your family dies."

What do you do?

Just curious as to the thoughts people might have on this...I. Can't. Wait.

 

[Zor]

I'm more important to me than my family.

 

[NavyGuy7]

...ok.. if you don't like your family very much, replace it with any loved one. It has to be precious and dear to you. And preferably a person.

 

[Zor]

I'm more important to me than anyone else.

 

[flicka]

I'd shoot myself... in the foot.

 

[NavyGuy7]

I'd shoot myself... in the foot.

...and then you both live. Glad someone thought of it, though I would have liked to see more responses. That was the answer though. Which kinda made it not a dilemma, not really. Option C just wasn't too obvious, lol.
Well, any other "moral dilemmas" anyone wants to share?

 

[Zor]

...and then you both live. Glad someone thought of it, though I would have liked to see more responses. That was the answer though. Which kinda made it not a dilemma, not really. Option C just wasn't too obvious, lol.
Well, any other "moral dilemmas" anyone wants to share?

I assumed shooting yourself meant suicide. But, anyway, how about making the price higher for saving the most important person in your life?
Let's raise the ante to say...
1. amputation of one of your limbs
2. taking a pill that will make you blind
3. severing your spinal chord to become a paraplegic/quadroplegic
4. killing your next best friend (or both will die)
5. killing yourself

Which of these are you willing to do to save a loved one?

 

[NavyGuy7]

Hrmmm... no easy answer to that one. Of course suicide is out of the question, as is murder.
If i had to choose a limb to amputate, maybe my left arm.
If I had to go blind, I dunno what I'd do. I want to become an author one day, so I suppose I'd have to rely on others to help me out with that. Unless they have brail keyboards, and vocal confirmations of letters.
Spinal chord? Only if there was a guarantee that my arms would still work. I don't think I could mentally handle only being able to move stuff from the neck up.