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Ruin an expensive suit to save a drowning child?

Would you ruin an expensive suit to save a drowning child?

  • Yes

    Votes: 210 90.5%

  • No

    Votes: 22 9.5%
  • Total voters
    232
I don't get why a thread like this, which involves such morally important consequences, gets so many lame and jokey responses.
 
this thread ticks me off. i can understand not going out of your way to find children and or humans who are dying and intercept, we aren't superheroes, and we have our own lives to lead and obligations to fulfill, but anyone who would second guess any financial issues with a dying child on their hands deserves to trade places with them


p.s. thought i posted in here already. did i get edited :(
 
skywise said:
I don't get why a thread like this, which involves such morally important consequences, gets so many lame and jokey responses.
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Skywise - as the Universal Arbiter of Arbitration, I hereby appoint you, the Arbiter of Responses.

The comedic responses are a result of the comedic nature of the question.

YOU CAN TAKE THE SUIT OFF (as I pointed out) and this dilemma is no more.
 
skywise said:
I don't get why a thread like this, which involves such morally important consequences, gets so many lame and jokey responses.
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I think that prior to further elaboration, the prompt points to a single response, and thus further silliness.

ebola
 
complexPHILOSOPHY said:
The comedic responses are a result of the comedic nature of the question.

YOU CAN TAKE THE SUIT OFF (as I pointed out) and this dilemma is no more.
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Wow! They don't call you complexPhilosophy for nuthin'! You can avoid the dilemma of a thought experiment by ignoring the stipulations designed to give rise to the dilemma! Who'd a thunk it??

//head explodes
 
ebola? said:
I think that prior to further elaboration, the prompt points to a single response, and thus further silliness.

ebola
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Yeah, I think this is right. I'm actually fairly surprised that the OP never followed up on his post to draw out the philosophical implications of the thought experiment. Maybe s/he's just polling people for a paper or something. Anyway, ebola?, what are your thoughts on the moral issues myself and some others have drawn attention to?
 
skywise said:
Wow! They don't call you complexPhilosophy for nuthin'! You can avoid the dilemma of a thought experiment by ignoring the stipulations designed to give rise to the dilemma! Who'd a thunk it??

//head explodes
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You obviously do not remember me skywise! I used to moderate this forum with ebola? and you and I had very good discussions, which is why I was being very cute with you, you sexy gentleman, you.
 
Sure.

And who knows I might even seduce he child's beautiful, rich and recently widowed 29 year old mom. We could spend our days yachting in the carribean, sipping iced rum from a coconut shell at dusk, beneath the shade of a palm with a cooling breeze wafting up the seafront while reggae music blasts gently in the background and she whispers in my ear "this is perfect, darling" and the boy dances with his holiday sweetheart, sharing the first pangs of puppy love. . .
 
complexPHILOSOPHY said:
You obviously do not remember me skywise! I used to moderate this forum with ebola? and you and I had very good discussions, which is why I was being very cute with you, you sexy gentleman, you.
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I didn't forget who you were. My sarcasm was as much meant in good fun as it was to provoke a more thorough response... :)
 
i really didn't need this vote results this morning
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especially considering last night's nightmare

i voted yes, of course yes.

the suit is my property so i can destroy it whenever i want. the child, on the other hand is not my property, it is not property of any kind. therefore, i have no right not to save it.
 
What if it was your only suit? And you needed the suit for a job interview the next day, and you had no money to get another one? And you needed the job to feed your family.
 
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