Your plane crashes

[b&wpac4]

No, the correct answer is to move all the children out of the room where they will be in the "protection from bullets" zone created by the dictator.

I don't think there is a correct answer

 

[MountainCappuccino]

Yes, shoot the kid. Change the name from 'Dictator' to God and you'd be in Abrahams shoes. It would be justified then, no?

 

[Caitlin.ann]

Shoot the dictator?

If that doesn't work then shoot no one.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Shoot the dictator?

If that doesn't work then shoot no one.

The dictator's smart enough not to be in the room.

As I said before, this is an old ethical scenario.

Either you act, and 1 person dies, and you are directly responsible,

Or you don't act, and 100 people die, and you are indirectly responsible.

Which is the more moral decision?

 

[morningstar2651]

I refuse to play the dictator's game - he's an idiot and will shortly be overthrown by a more cunning dictator. Evil Overlords have better uses for children than for silly games.

Now I have one for you.

You're trapped in a labyrinth. There are three doors for you to pass through - each is guarded. One guard always lies, one always tells the truth, and one stabs people who ask tricky questions.

 

[MountainCappuccino]

So you all would let them all die than rather grow a pair and do what he says?

 

[morningstar2651]

So you all would let them all die than rather grow a pair and do what he says?

No. I call his bluff.

 

[Nathan Poe]

No. I call his bluff.

Then the dictator snaps his fingers, and a squad comes in and mows down all 100 kids with automatic weapons fire.

Important rule of poker -- don't call a bluff when you've got nothing, either.

 

[MountainCappuccino]

No. I call his bluff.

Such an insane scenario would only be concocted by someone with a sick sense of humor and equally sick mind. Call that bluff if you dare.

 

[Caitlin.ann]

Meh..I see it as the dictator killed them, they would have died anyways and by not shooting anyone I'm not responsible.

 

[chingchang]

Since suicide isn't an option...I'd ask the kids if one of them would like to be the 'sacrificial lamb'? If they don't understand my language (I am in a foreign country afterall...) then I would do nothing. There is no suffering in death...

What do ya think?

Hugs,
CC

 

[TeddyKGB]

Such an insane scenario would only be concocted by someone with a sick sense of humor and equally sick mind. Call that bluff if you dare.

In that case I have no reason to believe anything the fellow says; there seems to be as good a chance as not that he's testing me and will in fact release everyone if I refuse to shoot a child.

To the OP: No time limit is mentioned. What is to prevent me from saying, "I changed my mind" whenever queried about my choice? How will the dictator know if I refuse to kill a child if I never say so?

 

[corvus_corax]

I find the OP impossible simply because the author had to (admitedly) edit and re-edit the OP over and over again, and has to keep on clarifying the actual point.
Obviously, the OP is not very well thought out, therefore the is NO answer (much less "one answer")

This thread is a joke from post #1, as evidenced by EVERYTHING the OP author obviously did not think about.

There is no "correct" or "right" or "moral" answer.
If there were, the OP author would have attempted to trump everyone by now with the "correct" or "right" or "moral" answer.
The author of the OP has no answer based on the original OP.
Go figure.

 

[yguy]

To the OP: No time limit is mentioned. What is to prevent me from saying, "I changed my mind" whenever queried about my choice? How will the dictator know if I refuse to kill a child if I never say so?

You don't get to be dictator of a country by being gullible enough to be confounded by such a shallow ruse.

 

[yguy]

There is no "correct" or "right" or "moral" answer.
If there were, the OP author would have attempted to trump everyone by now with the "correct" or "right" or "moral" answer.

For what purpose?

 

[yguy]

Now I have one for you.

You're trapped in a labyrinth. There are three doors for you to pass through - each is guarded. One guard always lies, one always tells the truth, and one stabs people who ask tricky questions.

Ooooooh, a wiseguy, huh?

 

[b&wpac4]

You don't get to be dictator of a country by being gullible enough to be confounded by such a shallow ruse.

No, you get to be dictator of a fictional country by having it posted on the Internet

 

[Nathan Poe]

Meh..I see it as the dictator killed them, they would have died anyways and by not shooting anyone I'm not responsible.

Your inaction cost 99 children their lives -- I have a feeling their parents might see you as quite responsible.

 

[corvus_corax]

For what purpose?

To explain the "right", "moral" or "correct" response.

Now granted, you did say that there is "a" right answer.

There is a right answer, and it's not suicide.

Which suggests you know what it is.
Without revealing what right answer there is, you seem to be holding it above our heads, just out of reach. Teasing us with "a" right answer you hold.

But by telling us, you reveal yourself, your morality, your ethics, etc.
So which is it going to be yguy?
Are you going to withhold "a" right answer?
Are you going to admit that many of the answers on this thread are all "a" right answer?
Or are you going to tell us what "a" right answer is?




Waiting, not holding my breath.

 

[white dove]

I find the OP impossible simply because the author had to (admitedly) edit and re-edit the OP over and over again, and has to keep on clarifying the actual point.
Obviously, the OP is not very well thought out, therefore the is NO answer (much less "one answer")

This thread is a joke from post #1, as evidenced by EVERYTHING the OP author obviously did not think about.

There is no "correct" or "right" or "moral" answer.
If there were, the OP author would have attempted to trump everyone by now with the "correct" or "right" or "moral" answer.
The author of the OP has no answer based on the original OP.
Go figure.

Aha! The correct response!!