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 Jess___
Female, 13-17, Europe
 38 Posts
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:32:42 AM
I didn't want to do any killing if I would live either way
but if it was life or death for myself
I was killing people left right and center |
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 BlueFireGasm
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
15 Posts
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:00:13 AM
All these are supposed to be questions of morality? he, ok. I'd have to be there in that situation before I could answer any of those.
I bet there are better ways to save people than to kill others if that ever happened. Who knows. I totally agree about the baby thing, you can make him pass out for a while as opposed to killing the poor thing. On the other hand, you may have to save the baby from others who would kill it for the same reasons, YOU NEVER KNOW what will happen in a crisis unless you're there. Proven fact; people aren't always thinking on their toes in a time of chaos. Most people freak out! So, you tell me, moral? Blahh. |
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 JFreak94
Female, 13-17, Western US
11 Posts
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:30:13 PM
this is stupid. i menan seriously. if you see someone standing on a track when a train is coming any normal person would start screaming like crazy. they wouldnt sit there and think "should i throw the switch? would it be moral to throw the switch?" and you dont have to kill the baby to make it be quiet. |
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 Woot45
Female, 13-17, Western US
2284 Posts
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:48:27 PM
llama I could totally smother a baby... and NOBODY? Ever hear about psychos and serial killers? |
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 Andyl
Male, 18-29, Europe
279 Posts
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:26:56 AM
Psh. The only one anyone here would ever do is 3a, because while the others involve you directly killing someone to save others, 3a involves you saving others and accidentally killing one person as a result.And of course, the morality comes in because in every situation you're being asked to play god. Hardly a great spectrum here. And on 3b/3c, what gives you the right to kill a man to save 5 others? The best option would be self sacrifice, otherwise you technically would be accepting that the other man on the bridge would be right to throw you off. As for the boat one...the guy is fully alert, and if he's gonna die soon then he probably would volunteer to throw himself overboard if he's fully aware that he'd die either way, which they do indeed state. While this type of thing would make for a good discussion, I doubt that could easily be found here. |
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 llamaseacow
Male, 13-17, Australia
574 Posts
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Monday, January 21, 2008 9:42:37 PM
NOBODY I REPEAT NOBODY could smother a baby to death in their arms. besides aren't there other ways to stop a baby crying??? also it's not like a SOLDIER would kill a baby even if it was a bad soldier... |
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 juggalo23
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
34 Posts
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Monday, January 21, 2008 2:31:37 PM
wow depressing |
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 itsgalf
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
93 Posts
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:28:15 PM
for most of these thinking about it I feel that it is right to kill the person/baby to save the great amount of people, but I answered no for a lot of them simply because I think that if I were in that situation I wouldn't be able to. I don't think I could live with myself if I knowingly killed a baby/person |
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 FranWins
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
129 Posts
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:35:25 PM
That's about the lamest morality quiz ever. It's really just a "under what circumstances might you murder someone" test, and a poorly done one at that since most of the questions revolve around the same scenario.FAIL!
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 bobertosmith
Male, 18-29, Canada
68 Posts
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:23:22 PM
Everyone that would die because of my actions in that quiz are worthless to me. I wouldn't mind sacrificing them. They mean nothing to me. |
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 LissieRae06
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
24 Posts
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:10:03 PM
That train track question always pisses me off. How can you stand on the train tracks and not be aware of the fact that a train is coming? If you're really that stupid, I don't want you in the gene pool.And the one about tossing a random man on the tracks? That's completely unfair. Those 5 people are IDIOTS. He is an innocent bystander. He was smart enough to stay off the tracks, so why kill him when you can knock out 5 idiots instead by just walking away?... The only ones that are really realistic at all is the first and second. Personally, I could smother the baby but I'm not entirely sure I could throw off the cripple. |
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 diablocat9
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
45 Posts
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:58:37 AM
"That would be very noble of you Mantolwen, however things change when you are actually faced with the situation. Its easy to say you would throw yourself in front of a moving train."I myself would give my life to save others. I also want to say that there is an unlimited amount of factors you have to consider while answering these questions. For the baby one, there are no factors for me. I just couldn't kill it. For the trolley ones, it depends on who's on the tracks. For the boat one, however, I'd just throw myself overboard. |
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 cookii
Female, 18-29, Europe
1150 Posts
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 7:45:28 AM
i would kill the baby if i had to, and painter 13s idea of swimming behind the boat occured to me to, but i couldnt snatch a dying mans last moments of life from him, or abandon him.
the trolley one was really tough, the only rational thing i could think of was to kill the one man, but my head just kept going that he would die alone, and even if the others were strangers, they would still have each other. And i thought it would be easier to kill someone if i knew them, they would understand, right? |
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 ParasyT
Male, 13-17, Southern US
346 Posts
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 7:28:56 AM
on the trolley ones i would just yell at them to move and if they dont then they deserve to die. |
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 ledjj
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
33 Posts
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:36:34 AM
Well, I already knew I wasn't the greatest person, so this quiz didn't tell me a whole lot.... |
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 Painter13
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
1309 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:48:35 PM
I would pinch the babies juggler until he passed out, I would get in the water and swim behind the boat taking turns with others until rescue or the man died, and the street car scenario is ridiculous, a more important question is do you know CPR, and if not...why not.Too Lazy? Better to focus on how to fix the world than bean count human life for a morality meter. |
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 PianoMan21
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
317 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:31:43 PM
I'm really surprised at 3a's results. |
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 Fayth
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
496 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:30:42 PM
I had no problems with sacrificing one life to save the lives of many, in any of the questions. I'd rather not be in that situation, but if I were I don't think it'd be a problem. |
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 Vogt
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
285 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:26:45 PM
Scenario 3a ftw. 0% said they could not. 100% said they could.:P |
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 AwsmEmily
Female, 13-17, Western US
69 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:02:25 PM
i guess i'm a really horrible person..lol i said yes to all! ...(presuming that all people that would be saved werent mass murderers or something)
im always the one screaming at the movie going "push her out of the elevator dumbarse!" or something to that nature |
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 Varifael
Female, 18-29, Western US
350 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:54:55 PM
If you look at the picture with the second question, they're all wearing lifejackets... I'd probably save the five for the first trolley question, but I'm not sure why any of those people are standing on tracks in the first place. For the second one, hell, if I have enough time to shove a guy in front of the other five, there's probably enough enough time to tell them all to get the hell off the damn tracks. For the last question, ignoring the endangered people for a second, catapults seem like serious cartoony fun. Like in one of those Road Runner shorts, the catapult backfired several times, crushing poor Wile E. And the moral of the story is not to trust catapults made by the enemy. *offtopic* |
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 minjofu
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
377 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:12:41 PM
There's all this concern about preserving the lives of the 5 people, and sparing a baby's life but losing the lives of the other's hiding with you.. The sad fact about life is when it's time to go, it's time to go. No one knows when, or how it will happen, but if it's going to happen in any of these scenerios I don't think any of us would have a right to make that decision.. On the boat, the injured person might die anyway - or at the last minute before the boat totally sinks, you could be rescued.. Wouldn't you feel like an a**hole for killing someone when you didn't need to?? And you've got to figure that people trying to escape from an enemy in war time probably wouldn't pick up an abandoned baby anyway.. harsh, but true. |
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 StapleMeElmo
Male, 18-29, Southern US
1021 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:54:41 PM
This was idiotic. |
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 Camira
Male, 18-29, Australia
799 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:51:58 PM
You can't really know what you would do if you were really in one of these situations... so why even bother with this? |
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 ladynerd
Female, 18-29, Australia
243 Posts
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:13:04 PM
I couldn't smother the baby no way, the others would depend on complicated circumstances |
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