Would You??

For a two dollar bribe, I wouldn't bother to be bribed. However, for a large bribe I would object for the sake of consciencious integrity. Therefore, theoretically, there should be a sum of cash which I would deem high enough to be worthy of accepting and low enough to be morally inconsequential. Unfortunately, pinpointing that precise amount on the basis of individual circumstance would entail far too much brainpower for a relatively silly situation. All of which precludes to a personal policy of no bribe taking.

Would you apologize if you accidentally told your professor/boss not to talk back, or would you hide your embarrassment and pretend that he or she thought is was funny?

Hmm... I would most likely appologise if it were an outburst, but i wouldn't if i felt the person in question had a serious problem with disrespect. Fair enough they're in a position of authority, but still... Anyway, my boss doesn't mind, but i have had a rather nasty experience with a previous english teacher.

For me, I think it really depends on what would cost me such embarrassment or offense. Usually, I can seem like a rather passive, quiet person, but if I felt too offended or hurt, I would certainly say something, yet in a professional, unblaming manner.

To the person below me: would you provide support to a loved family member (such as a sister, brother, daughter, son, or even mother or father) if he/she chose to choose a homosexual lifestyle? :brow:

Maybe, I mean, it's fine if they are homosexual, I'm not going to treat them differently for something like that, which to me really isn't that big of a deal. I'm not going out of my way to defend their choice or whatever, They receive exactly the same treatment I'd give them if they where hetero sexual.

Would you go to a far away place completely cut off from civilization, and live the rest of your life one with nature if you had the chance?

In the past I definitely looked for that chance, but then I decided to stop looking, and now I like society too much to do more than visit wilderness. I might still consider following in Thoreau's footseps for a couple of years and a couple of months and a couple of days, but not for the rest of my life.

If you had a treasure map (to a very massive treasure) that contained clues written in Sanscrit, would you bother to learn Sanscrit.

Why not? Might be a facinating experience, even if the map is a fake!!

If you found out that your friend whom you have known for the past 25 years, and who has always been a model citizen, is a escaped convict they have been hunting for all that time, would you turn him in or figure that he must have learned his lesson and changed?

Hmmm, interesting question. I suppose I consider myself a very 'face the music,' deontological (Kant) type, but I would not force him back to prison. Of course, I would wonder if he had changed for the better, but would clearly communicate that he should turn himself in, in my opinion, leaving the final choice to him.

To the person below me: same question. ;)

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Why not? Might be a facinating experience, even if the map is a fake!!

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Sanskrit has words with 10-15 or even more alphabets. Learning it would be interesting, I am sure!

To answer the question: Publicly, I would defend the person but personally I might want them to change, but asking them to surrender would not be possible for me.

Same question.

I like to think that I choose my friends very carefully, so if it turned out one of them was a fugitive I would have to take into consideration the virtues that I witnessed in them that were deciding factors in starting a friendship, so I would hesitate to think ill of them in the present, no matter the charge of the past. However, being the upstanding person that I know her or him to be now, I would encourage my friend to stand up, while giving my assurance of support.

Would you cause a distraction so that someone could get away from the police, if you agreed with the actions that caused the person to be pursued, even if you became the pursued?

Hmmm, tough question, but if there seemed less risk of my ending up as the pursued, then yes, I would, so long as I agreed with the pursued. I would not endanger myself, however - self-preservation before sticking up for a friend. :D

To the person below me: would you ever attend a carnival that had a history of several accidents with their equipment, but have had none in recent years, due to 'improved' equipment? :eek:

I never ride those rides anyway. Ever. I get moton sicknss and have thrown up after riding them. So no.

But same Q.

i too get motion sickness so no


lets be supposititious here...if you were a good natured kind all around just good person (and to my knowledge everyone here is:)) would you, if life got so tough do a bad thing? or do you think there are just good and bad people

(i thought about this after seeing this situation in a recent movie i watched :))

Everyone is capable of great depths of evil, and everyone is capable of surprising splashes of good. If the hidden thoughts that I guard from everyone and the buried angers that I've managed to submerge and control so far were to ever be known or shown, I have no doubt that I would be locked up, yet, I am a good man. I have not committed the deeds but I know that I could have. Likewise, I have known personally some of the most violent criminals, many of whom will die in prison. I have sat beside them inside those prison walls, discussing ordinary things about freedom, about prison life, about coping and growing and living. I have listened to them talk about families, and regrets, and commiting their crimes, and I have to say, they are no different than you or I. They are neither bent on evil nor insane, for the most part. Some are hardened and unremorseful, but by far the huge majority suffer in remorse more than they suffer in their punishments.

I went into this environment young, and green, and foolish, and arrogantly feeling superior. I left it with a completely different perspective about myself, my values, my perceptions about other people, and my opinion about my own opinions. I no longer believe in absolute good or absolute evil. I believe in absolute immersion in good or evil; that it is possible to focus one's life and attention in such ways; but I think that most people blunder blindly about their daily lives, never realizing that they have the kind of power to shape their own destinies by the casual choices they make concerning good and evil. Ultimately, I believe that most people want to be good but not everyone has the strength or courage or awareness to make it happen.

Same question, especially if you feel differently than I do and would like to compare and contrast.

No, I would not. Christ does not allow me to, nor would I have any real desire to, even if I were starving.

If your true love wanted to have twelve children, would you still marry them?

If true love is really "true", there comes a time when you sit down together, talk things out, and each considers the others feelings. Then if one partner cannot conceive (no pun intended) the idea of twelve children, there comes a meeting of the minds and a compromise. In true love, one does not wish to harm the other. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man should lay down his life for a friend." If you have true love, you could not bear to hurt the other, so you will find common ground.

I leave the question for the next sage to ponder. http://www.invision.smileyville.net/smilies/angel1.gif