Who do you love?

Discussion in 'Ethics, Morality, & Justice' started by bbcboy, Apr 8, 2002.

  1. bbcboy Recovering christian Registered Senior Member

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    So here's the deal

    Your mother and your lover are hanging from a cliff edge by one of your arms each.

    You know you can only save one of them...

    Who do you save
     
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  3. goofyfish Analog By Birth, Digital By Design Valued Senior Member

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    Well.. I think I wanna know what my mother and my lover were doing alone at the edge of a cliff? Some kind of affair that they are hiding from me? The shame and humiliation are too much for me to bear.

    I stomp on both of their fingers.

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    Peace.
     
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  5. bbcboy Recovering christian Registered Senior Member

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    Oh Goofy you have no couth!!

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  7. *stRgrL* Kicks ass Valued Senior Member

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    Dont have a lover but blood is thicker than water soo....

    But what if your mother chose her lover over you when you were young? So I might go with the lover... if it was a really good lover

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    Groove on
     
  8. Tyler Registered Senior Member

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    At 15 years old, mother. Simply because I'm 15 and it's not like my current 'lover' is likely to be my life-long partner!

    However, a wife...?

    The wife.

    Mainly because my mom would insist upon it.
     
  9. Riomacleod Registered Senior Member

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    *grins*
    Sometimes I wonder about the people who pose these questions. Always so morbid, and very impractical philosophically.
    Lets say you had 2 ice cream cones and your lover and your mother each wanted one. Who of the 3 get ice cream? and maybe the person who doesn't get ice cream can get cotton candy.
     
  10. goofyfish Analog By Birth, Digital By Design Valued Senior Member

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    Because I am morally obligated to help my mother
    and my lover remain thin, I'll eat both ice creams.
    (and the cotton candy...)

    Peace.
     
  11. Tyler Registered Senior Member

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    I'd get out of the whole situation by "accidentally" dropping both ice cream cones.
     
  12. bbcboy Recovering christian Registered Senior Member

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    Lets say you had 2 ice cream cones and your lover and your mother each wanted one. Who of the 3 get ice cream? and maybe the person who doesn't get ice cream can get cotton candy.


    post yer own thread Rio
    I've had these bitches dangling here for a week and I need help goddammit!!

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  13. Riomacleod Registered Senior Member

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    My point is that this sort of situational ethics where we examine every possible and bizzare situation for what we would do is pointless. The questions aren't really philosophically important. Shouldn't we be concerned with bigger pictures? At the very least, if we *are* going to pick minutia, shouldn't it be minutia that we have a chance to experience some time? I mean, I don't mean to sound like an ass but....
     
  14. Tyler Registered Senior Member

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    Are you suggesting that we shouldn't have our fun?

    Or that our fun should be more like your fun?
     
  15. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Twofold answer

    It's a simple solution, a twofold answer, and dependent on one's personal ethic.

    Simply, you attempt to save them both, and go down trying.

    Or else you walk away and leave them both to die.

    thanx much,
    Tiassa

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  16. bbcboy Recovering christian Registered Senior Member

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    Tiassa

    That's a bit like Janeway versus Q

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    And my arms are gettingTIRED!


    RIO

    A games company who shall remain nameless made a fucking fortune out of trivial persuit. Lighten up dood you're a long time bored.
     
  17. TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    Well... perhaps I could throw a dice to decide...
    But then when I see the result they would have already fallen...
    ...

    Love,
    Nelson
     
  19. goofyfish Analog By Birth, Digital By Design Valued Senior Member

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    I would attempt to enlighten them regarding True Love, hoping that they would climb to safety on the Truth that binds the universe together in an ocean of simple ambiguity.

    Peace.
     
  20. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    i would be kidding myself if i didn't say my girlfriend. I think everyone actually put in that situation would chose that way (nature wouldn't alow any other choice, you know instinked to breed that sort of thing)
     
  21. Chagur .Seeker. Registered Senior Member

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    bbcboy ...

    You left out a vital bit of information ...

    Is my mother 'pre' or 'post' menopausal?

    Take care

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  22. bbcboy Recovering christian Registered Senior Member

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    Chagur

    Is there an oedipal quality happening here ???

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  23. Chagur .Seeker. Registered Senior Member

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    bbcboy ...

    Nah. Just wouldn't want to have to put up with her while she was going
    through menopause.

    Take care

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