Would You??

I agree with North Star. I would be too nervous to say anything, probably, and that wouldn't be any fun.

Would you eat the last specimen of an endangered species?

Of course not! Though if it's the last one then the species is doomed anyway obviously.

Would you dig up and dig through a corpse if you had good reason to believe it had been buried after swallowing a substantial number of diamonds and gems?

Only if they were my diamonds and gems.

Is the belief that a corpse is still a person a superstition?

Do people believe that? I suppose that's a superstition then, yes.

Would you strip corpses after a particularly bloody battle in medieval England or France? You are not wealthy yourself, but not a serf either.

In morally and psychologically dicey situations like combat, it is important to maintain discipline, or self-control if the standard of discipline is coming apart; so I lean towards no. If I were drawing no other pay, however, and the norm was to plunder after a victory to compensate for that (as it often was in ancient times), I would probably not even struggle with the idea.

Would you hesitate to kill your brother if you found yourselves on opposing sides in a civil war?

I absolutely wouldn't do it, he can kill me if he wants I suppose, but he wouldn't do it either I don't think. Assuming I was going to be executed for cowardice or something if I don't kill him I'll take the firing squad, this isn't even a question. Even assuming I know for a fact that if we lay down our arms we are both going to be executed there's still no way I'm killing my own brother with my own hands.

Your best friend/brother/wife/anyone you deeply care about is being executed by firing squad, there is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent this, you have been assigned to this firing squad and if you do not participate you're next on the chopping block, would you shoot?

No, certainly not. And if I were in such a society, I would prefer to be dead.

If you were a supervisor of a fair to good worker, and you were ordered by your boss to trump up some problem to justify firing him (to make room for the boss's nephew, you think), and you were pretty sure that you'd be next if you screwed it up, and you had a wife and three kids depending on your paycheck and healthcare, would you do it?

Yes I would, my kids come first, he's going to be fired by someone anyway and firing someone isn't exactly evil. I wouldn't lose sleep over it, but I would start quietly searching for a new job.

I agree with you about preferring death.

Would you frame someone you really hated in your workplace for some petty crime which would see him or her terminated if you knew you could get away with it scot-free?

Not for a crime, but if I was convinced the person was trying to get me fired, and I knew that the person had already committed fire-able offenses and gotten away with it, then no, I wouldn't hesitate to use what I had to defend myself. Or at least I did in those days. Nice to have the rat race behind me, though.

You oppose unions but have a chance to increase your income substantially by taking a job with mandatory union membership. Do you do it?

Honestly at this point in my life, yes. I'm not going to give up a good job because of the mandatory union membership (and I oppose unions in real life too), it wouldn't be the right move for me and I need to consider the absolute realities of my situation right at this moment.

Would you work for a company whose practices you considered ethically unsound if the salary was comparatively enormous to what you were making at a job working for a perfectly moral firm?

You guys are freaking me out! No, I would not work at said amoral company. I would quit my job and go on to become a millionaire playboy poet.

Would you hug a lion?

Sometimes I play with my food like that, too.

Would you get a tattoo of a cartoon character, and if so, which one?

If someone held a gun to my head and told me I must get a tattoo or he would shoot me I would get something from Watership Down, Fiver or Blackavar most likely and maybe some text from the book (and all the world will be your enemy might be a little too dark and edgy haha), or one of the epigraphs which head every chapter.

Same question, and if your answer is no are there any tattoo's you have or would consider getting in general?

I would get a Chaim Machlev tattoo if I had to get one.

Would you be interested in time-traveling back to ancient Egypt?

clopin, have we talked about watership down before? its one of my very favorite books and one of the few ive read twice.

have you seen the animated movie? have you read the "tales from watership down" also?

I think time travel anywhere has an appeal to it...but I think I wouldn't want to be there during the biblical times of jewish slavery.

if you could make one cartoon character come to life and be your friend, which one would you bring to life?