This will be an ethical question thread, that will relate mainly to religious beliefs and ethics. Hopefully it will be a good idea and people will want to play.
Each week I will present a topic, and you may discuss it, and bring your morality into the question.
This week: soldiers have come to search your house! They will kill you and eat you if they find you. You are hiding in the closet farther away from the door than your friend who is hiding underneath a sofa. The people eating soldiers stop in front of the sofa, and start bending over slowly to see if there is anyone underneath it. You see this through the crack in the door. You have 2 choices to jump out, scream and run out the door to save your bestest friend in the whole world, or you can watch them drag him away.
basically would you save yourself? or would you save your friend.
The correct answer in my opinion is ii. because the work in hank's hands is not his own, but instead gorkon's. It is up to gorkon if he wants to share his work before it is published.
BTW DDX, which AP exams are you taking, wouldn't be AP psychology would it? :P
Took that last year, I took the BC calc exam already (yesterday) the AP french exam on monday, I have the AP studio art (2-D) submissions due tomorrow. On next monday I have to take the AP Physics C exam, and AP chem is on wednsday, and AP Macroeconomics is on thurday I believe.
with this I will have taken 14 AP's in my highschool career by next friday.
Nice, was kinda hoping AP bio was in there somewhere :O AP bio is my first and only ap exam. Rather than take AP for english, math, and chemistry i just decided to take them at the local college. GL with your exams, 5's all around, cross ya fingers ;D
I was aware - hence my wording 'going to be published'. It is quite likely that since his project is much further along, it will wind up being published first. If it doesn't... well, the world isn't going to wait for him; regardless of someone having taken a small look at what he's planning on publishing.
AP bio is cake walk I'd take 5 AP bio tests over 1 AP chem test.
yea, I also got a 5 on that one lol.
Anyway, due to AG being down for 2 days, the question up will stand till friday.
In Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment the main character plots and carries out the murder of an old woman who has a considerable amount of money in her apartment. After killing her, he steals the money. He argues that 1) she is a malicious old woman, petty, cantankerous and scheming, useless to herself and to society (which happens to be true), and her life causes no happiness to herself or to others; and 2) her money if found after her death would only fall into the hands of chiselers anyway. Whereas he would use it for his education. Is this action justified?
Well at the end of the day it is murder pure and simple. I think it would depend on whether you think you could get away with it. If you get caught the money will just go to the government or whoever anyway.
Although, in my opinion, it'd be better to kill that particular woman, and use her money for an education, than kill some random person and waste the money, the fact is that it's still murder, and in my opinion, not justified.
Ah, I feel the same way as you Pixie, I don't think it is ethically correct to take the old woman's life, even if she was useless to society. Murder will always be murder. This reminds me of the Stealing to survive: Good or bad? thread.
It wouldn't be right to take her life. She might be crotchety & old, but it's her money.
Now.. if the old woman was say... instrinsically involved in death camps during the holocaust.. and the money she has stashed is stolen Nazi gold; I might think otherwise.
Definitely not justified. No matter how much of a nuisance a person may be, that does not justify stealing her life. In addition, that was not his money that he took, so that to was wrong on his part.
AP bio is cake walk I'd take 5 AP bio tests over 1 AP chem test.
?I'm just the opposite, I'd rather take the chem, at least it has more of a math element to it :s
