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del_diablo
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posted August 07, 2009 11:47 PM |
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No, but I'm in the minority.
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Mytical
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posted August 08, 2009 08:17 AM |
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From another thread, an interesting question.
Here is the situation. Your child, or the child of somebody you dearly love, is going into a very dangerous situation. (Fire, gonna step out in front of a car, etc). Now you are close enough to grab them by the arm and yank, but NOTHING else. (Ie you will have to cause some physical pain if you want to try to stop them that way). Do you do that, or hope that yelling will do the trick?
If you yell, and they don't stop and get hurt (or worse)..do you feel guilty knowing you COULD have prevented it?
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JoonasTo
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted August 08, 2009 09:35 AM |
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Well D'uh!
How is that even considerable to the other way?
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Fauch
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posted August 08, 2009 11:28 AM |
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I would push him. to teach him a lesson 
look both ways before crossing the road
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TheDeath
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posted August 08, 2009 04:15 PM |
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I yell. And I do feel bad but not guilty however.
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Mytical
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posted August 09, 2009 07:08 AM |
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Ok serious question time. You are driving an ambulance, with somebody having a heart attack in the back. As you are speeding along, some pedestrian not paying any attention walks out right in front of you. You can swerve, but it is a small street and there is a good chance you will hit a vehicle (and possibly damage yours enough that it will no longer work). You have JUST enough time to swerve. What do you do? Your lights and sirens were working and ON, but that did not prevent this from happening.
If you had no time to swerve and just 'clipped' the pedestrian. Do you stop and help them risking the life of the person already dying. ((Lets assume they are both about the same age))
What if the person in the back was an elderly person and the pedestrian was a child (and you 'clipped' the pedestrian).
What if the pedestrian was an elderly person and the passanger was a child with a gun shot wound?
You do not know or have any realtionship with EITHER for all these questions.
Some people suggested they wanted HARDER choices..I think these qualify. ((Edit : Although some have not answered the so called 'easy' questions )).
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Miru
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posted August 09, 2009 09:35 AM |
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Since its likely one person will die and I have to choose between the person in the back or the person in the road, I see the person in the back as someone with no fault (maybe is fat or unhealthy at worst) and the person in the road walked into it. If possible only clip the pedestrian but if I had to, run 'em over.
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Mytical
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posted August 09, 2009 09:38 AM |
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To be honest I forgot about the 'legality' issue. Hit and run is illegal. For this hypothesis, let us negate the legality issue.
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JoonasTo
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted August 09, 2009 10:03 AM |
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Since I have no connection to either person I would try to evade.
And I would not stop but call to saomeone through the radio to go check on them. Or leave my partner there. The people in question are irrelevant since I have no connection to either.
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TheDeath
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posted August 09, 2009 06:16 PM |
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I won't stop, of course, I would announce that I hit them so some free ambulance can go there. (besides, at least other people can help the dude I hit, not so with the person in the ambulance).
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TheDeath
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posted August 09, 2009 06:24 PM |
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Here's a new hard question.
You are a cop. You spot a terrorist you have been trying to catch for a long time, and are about to catch him (let's assume you already announced it to the other cops through radio, but they are far away). He, however, has already put up a bomb in a nearby building and says to you that it will blow up in 1 or 2 minutes. He is in his car, and you try to shoot at him but he escapes. You have enough time to go there and defuse it, but that will mean he gets away. You can also get in your car and follow him, but the building will explode in a few minutes (not enough time for ANY other cop to come and defuse the bomb).
Let's assume that YOU ARE CERTAIN that the bomb is there, and he is not bluffing. (also let's assume he is a master at escaping and you can't register his car number and catch him easily).
The problem here is that, even though letting him go might sound like not a bad idea, you have no idea if he's gonna blow up other things in the future for instance, or whether he will get caught until then.
So what do you do?
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posted August 09, 2009 06:45 PM |
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Going to defuse the bomb and letting him escape is exactly what he wants, you'd just play his game. And as you said, what would stop him from killing or bombing something else in the near future? As harsh as it may sound I'd go chase him since he that would stop him from doing any more harm in the future.
Not to mention, you may not even be able to defuse it in time
Oh and I don't know why this just remembered me about some movies where people desperately play along the killer's plan just to save one person while dozens of others die because of this (or a bit later), makes me laugh a bit (since it's a movie) or I'd be sad if it was happening for real.
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Azagal
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posted August 09, 2009 06:48 PM |
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First things first you'd have to rescue the peopl in danger first.
Chances are you can always catch him before he does something again. Of course there is no certain way to know but the chance is there. There is no chance that people won't die if you hurry after the terrorist.
It's simply the human thing to do. Personally I find the question very easy. Call me shortsighted but it's pretty easy.
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Asheera
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posted August 09, 2009 06:51 PM |
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Not if he already killed some people like usual killers do, that would make you doubt a bit if you can catch him before doing any crimes again.
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TheDeath
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posted August 09, 2009 06:55 PM |
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Going to defuse the bomb and letting him escape is exactly what he wants, you'd just play his game. And as you said, what would stop him from killing or bombing something else in the near future? As harsh as it may sound I'd go chase him since he that would stop him from doing any more harm in the future.
He might get caught later by someone else, or by you if you get lucky or something.
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Not to mention, you may not even be able to defuse it in time
Let's assume you are certain you will
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posted August 09, 2009 07:40 PM |
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Mytical's situation - I concur with Death.
Death's situation - If I go after him, am I guaranteed to catch him?
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TheDeath
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posted August 09, 2009 07:55 PM |
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Death's situation - If I go after him, am I guaranteed to catch him?
At the moment (in that moment) that's what it appears like. Well every cop thinks that to boost his morale. Anyway I don't want to turn it into a very analytical deep situation because, frankly, there's no way you could compute probabilities precisely in that situation. Be honest
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posted August 09, 2009 08:27 PM |
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Then I go after the terrorist. I have to cut off these things at the root. It's like playing whack-a-mole.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 09, 2009 10:36 PM |
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Death, you can't believe a word of what a terrorist says - he may just have taken the freedom to lie.
So it's lik you had mo infomation at all, which means, you have to get the bad guy.
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TheDeath
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posted August 09, 2009 10:39 PM |
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I was aware of that, I did say you are certain that he is not bluffing. For various reasons (maybe you had a detector, or knew beforehand but took a random of many possible destinations and were lucky to find him, etc...).
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