Some Seriously Troubling Ethical Dilemmas: Time For You To Decide

As none seem to be tied down, tell them all to get up and stop being silly.

There is an interesting way to reframe this problem, which, I think, makes clear the moral quandary this actually poses. There are five people at the hospital. Two are waiting for kidney transplants, one needs a lung transplant, one needs a liver transplant and one needs a heart transplant. Would you advocate sacrificing a healthy person to provide the organs needed to save five lives?

Pull the lever, try to get to the single person before the train, fail, feel guilty the rest of my life.

What would Mr Rogers do?

Pull the lever, then run quickly to attempt to save the one person in time. I have a chance to do that, but much less chance to save five people.

What would Ivanka do?

... easier to undermine from within, initially. branch out later...

Did anyone else get annoyed by the fact that it said “father” and not “parent”?

I would first find out what dear old dad is planning with the country. If the poor country is corrupt and needs help, we might be able to fix things. If he just wants to plunder it.... I would most likely see if he is open to turning it into a wildlife preserve.

Let's bring this a little closer to home. I have wondered before, if my husband m******d someone, or abused children (something heinous), would you support them, or ditch them? I have always believed I would ditch them. Thank goodness it's never been tested.

What happens to you (or your body) in the real life, once you remain stuck in the lucid dream?

I have kids I can't leave them while I dream

There's no use or sense in hiding behind comforting illusions. I lucid dream all the time anyway so I don't need the help.

If only good things can happen then there's no sense of achievement, no challenge, no purpose. That's why Kirk left the Nexus.

I spend most of my time dissociated anyway.

I would destroy it, burn my notes and erase my research. A world full of immortals would be terrible. Too many of us would destroy the planet in a few years, and just an elite being immortal would become alien and inhumane. The 1% is already way too out of touch. Imagine them being immortal. Also, what kind of immortality are we talking about? Not dying but still aging would be a nightmare...

To live forever would be a nightmare.

I wouldn't be researching immortality because what for. As Queen asked "who wants to live forever, when love must die?"

NO!! Imagine all the dictators and sociopaths currently ruling the world becoming immortals.

I think the question isn't wether it should be available to everyone but wether it should be available to anyone.

Why do people think they are more worthy of living than animals?

Moose don't stop trains, am I going to find a throw an animal larger than a moose?

What animal is it? For all we know, it could be another human

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1. Depends on the animal 2. Would throwing the animal on the track cause the rain to crash and possibly k**l other people on the train? How many people might die? 3. Do I know the person? It's the animal one of my pets?

Why hurt an innocent animal if someone wants to unalive themselves? Nope, not guna do it.

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How much do I trust the people telling me who the bad guys are? How well do I really know the person I love? If I am 100% sure my orders are wrong about the person I love then I can't trust the other people are bad guys either.

Why would i be a hitman anyway? I am spraying cockroaches because i can not bring myself to just hit them with a flipflop. I doubt very much i could k**l people for money.

You have to have killed for money and willfully decided to continue to do that to have any hope of comprehending what an actual hitman would do, most of us cannot answer this.

It's very stupid to ask a moral question, when the answer of which requires me to pretend to be someone with little to no morals. Like, am I a badass killer? Or like a killer protagonist in movies with a soft heart in the end or what?

I wouldn't even be a hitman in the first place. So if I hypothetically would be one, I probably wouldn't have a conscious

"Cheating" and "wonderful relationship" exclude each other, so my friend is living an illusion. If I don't tell her, I'm not her friend. I'd probably tell the authorities too.

I would tell her *after* the wedding so she can demand half of the cheating pr*ck's assets and simultanously collaborate with the feds to expose the money laundering and get immunity in case I get implicated.

I‘d like to say yes but I don’t know if I had the courage.

I’d blackmail the b*****d and tell her anyway