Author Topic: lets talk about moral quandries  (Read 4988 times)

This could be better. If there's no reason to save one over the other besides their gender, then you're only making a gender based selection. A better one would be if it were a young child or your own friend/spouse/family member who is much older.
I presented it because of the gender based selection.

I was interested on whether society has taught most of us to save the woman because she's more vulnerable, or if they'd save the closest one.

get the woman because easy ass


A building is burning and you only have time to save one of two people still trapped inside.

One is a man, one is a woman. Both are similar weight, so carrying them out isn't an issue.

Go.
Save the closest one.


Save the closest one.
What if they're in the same room next to each other, you can't carry both of them, and you have to leave the building as it is beginning to collapse.


What if they're in the same room next to each other, you can't carry both of them, and you have to leave the building as it is beginning to collapse.
what kind of question is that anyway
imagine if they said this in the matrix:
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You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
it's entirely pointless and has nothing to do with morality

You're trapped in a room with Riddler, Bin Laden, and Okiver.

You have a gun with 2 bullets.

well Riddler and bin laden are both already dead and killing a kid is pretty much universally looked down upon so I'd shoot two bullets into a wall

You're trapped in a room with Riddler, Bin Laden, and Okiver.

You have a gun with 2 bullets.
Shoot Riddler and Bin Laden? Pretty sure Okiver wasn't responsible for the deaths of many.

You're trapped in a room with Riddler, Bin Laden, and Okiver.

You have a gun with 2 bullets.
Easy, shoot Okiver twice and stomp on the remains of the already dead Riddler and Bin Laden.

You're trapped in a room with Riddler, Bin Laden, and Okiver.

You have a gun with 2 bullets.
Is there an ocean in the room?

Shoot Riddler and Bin Laden.

well Riddler and bin laden are both already dead and killing a kid is pretty much universally looked down upon so I'd shoot two bullets into a wall
no fun allowed

okiver is not a kid either

Is there an ocean in the room?

Shoot Riddler and Bin Laden.
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