Predicaments

[LJP07]

Situation 1

 

Your a mother whom has a baby...she's due and is told by her doctors that if she has this baby, she may have permanent damage done upon her. She has to make the decision:

 

1. Have the baby and risk her and the babies death.

2. Have the baby killed and save her own life.

 

Is there a "morally correct" decision?

 

Situation 2

 

A person is under attack, if he moves to safety of some kind, his wife gets killed by the murderer, if he stays he's under risk of being killed while his wife will be let free and three, both could be killed if he stays?

 

He decides to leave and he hears his wife get slaughtered....did he make the right choice facing his circumstances?

 

Situation 3

 

You meet a girl months ago whom is a millionaire ( 2.3 million ).

 

She really likes you but you are withyour girlfirend of 6 years and will get marriedin 6 months and as well as this if you don't pay the gangsters the 2.25 million there looking for they will kill you, your wife and children.

 

You decide to marry the girl with the 2.3 million unknown to your wife. You take all her money and payoff the gangsters. Your wife finds out that you are married and splitsup with you taking your children?

 

What's the correct move considering the consequences?

 

These types of Situation Exists:

 

Mine might seem exaggerated and don't give the whole points exactly but situations like this exist. You may have some of your own or may simply reply to the ones I have listed. But it's a predicament you are faced with?

 

;)

 

[CraigD]

Fun questions! My (subjective, of course) answers:

• Situation 1 - Not enough information to answer. What is the best known probability of the death of mother and/or child in either situation? What is the life expectancy of the mother and/or child in either situation? If the woman terminates the pregnancy, that is the probability that she will have a future normal pregnancy and delivery?
   
  
• Situation 2 – Not enough information to answer. What is the probability that the person will successfully repel or overcome the murderer?
   
  If the probability is greater than 50%, simple risk assessment, based on an equal value of the life of the person and his wife, indicates that the decision to leave was incorrect. If less than 50%, it indicates that the decision was correct. If the equal value assumption is inaccurate – for example, if person or his wife is a medical researcher poised to develop a therapy that will save the lives of millions – the decision criteria change.
   
  In practical terms, the question fails to account for a scenario in which both the person and his wife fight the murderer. In my personal experience, such omissions are unwise: a female ally can be a critical deciding factor in a fight, and even minimally training and practice fighting together can dramatically increase any team’s effectiveness.
   
  
• Situation 3 Assuming the near certainty that gangsters will kill you if you don’t get the money and will not if you do, that the girl will freely give you the money, but only if you marry her, your decision to marry the girl, preventing anybody from dieing prematurely, is IMHO the correct one.
   
  Relationships come and go. Understanding and forgiveness springs eternal from the human heart. Death, however, is irreversible.

All of these scenarios suggest a “higher” moral principle: avoid them.

• Use all available pre-pregnancy screening to avoid complications of pregnancy and childbirth
  
• Avoid confrontations with murderers (in my experience, the most difficult to follow)
  
• Don’t borrow money from murderous gangsters
  

[ErlyRisa]

Replying!!:)

 

nah really..

 

-Predicament...

 

Your in the office, you have to stay their untill a meeting is over, ut you had some curry laksa for lunch... you know you need to fart, and realise that if you fart, it would curb the imminent slurry that would follow the longer you held it in. Of course you have to stay in the meeting, and you know that you can't make it silent.

 

--what do you do?

--wait for it to build, taking the risk of spoiling your underwear, or let one rip at the right time?;)

[Boerseun]

Actually, there's no such thing as a predicament. What we see as predicaments are simply friction between opposing morality sets. For instance, faced with these three questions, I'd say:

 

Situation 1:

Abort the baby. This will free up the mother (who is now once again sexually receptable) to get impregnated once more, and try again for a baby which will carry forth her genes. She might have many more children after the first aborted baby, if she didn't abort, she might have died or have no more kids.

 

Situation 2:

The question is framed from the husband's point of view. So, the only option where he has a 100% chance of survival, is to get the heck outta there. If his wife gets blown away, he can always find a new one to impregnate, and carry forth his genes. If his wife survives, he haven't really lost anything except her respect for him. She'll probably divorce him later on for being a spineless bastard, but he must make sure to impregnate her first (a few times, if possible) before she does so.

 

Situation 3

Leave the girlfriend and marry the one with the bucks (but only after impregnating the first one). Get the money, pay off the mob - this'll ensure your survival, enabling you to impregnate many more girls after the second girl discovers you've only married her for her money. She will divorce you, which is fine - but only after you've impregnated her. Get back to the first girlfriend (who's got a little baby by now) and bank on some make-up sex for a second round of impregnation. Move on before she finds out you were only there for the sex and clobbers you over the head with a rolling pin, and enter the free world of available single sexually receptable impregnatable womenfolk, ready to receive your very short-term one-dimensional love. Impregnate as many of them as possible, and move on, changing your name and number as often as required. Be sure to move from city to city to lessen the chances of your offspring ever meeting and falling in love, seeing as they are all unknown to each other. Also, if possible, switch continents every few years.

 

I fail to see the predicament there. But only if you view it from the morality set of a horny 14-year old... :)