Subj : Re: Ethics test To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Sat Sep 10 2005 21:00:43 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > John Iwaniszek wrote in > news:Xns96CD8EBB268E2joiwhnanri@66.26.32.7: > >> weirdwolf wrote in >> news:Xns96CDBA1CAE389r73u67jw56nas@62.253.170.163: >> >>> Ethics Test >>> >>> This test only has the one question, but it's a very important one. >>> By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand >>> morally. >>> >>> The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in >>> which you will have to make a decision. >>> >>> Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous. >>> >>> Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line. >>> >>> You are in Florida, Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around >>> you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of >>> biblical proportions. >>> >>> You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you're >>> caught in the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is nearly >>> hopeless. >>> >>> You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and >>> people swirling around you...some disappearing under the water. >>> Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury. >>> >>> Suddenly you see a man floundering in the water. He is fighting for >>> his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move >>> closer... somehow the man looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it >>> is. It's George W. Bush! At the same time you notice that the raging >>> waters are about to take him under... forever. >>> >>> You have the two options: >>> >>> You can save the life of G.W.Bush, or you can shoot a dramatic >>> Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the >>> world's most powerful men. >>> >>> So here's the question, and please give an honest answer: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> ... >>> >>> ... >>> >>> ... >>> >>> Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the >>> classic simplicity of black and white? >>> >>> >> >> I'd fish the moron out. Even a shit-heel deserves humane treatment. >> > > Yeah but John you are a liberal, probably after it happens people who > weren't there and you've never heard of will go on tv saying how you > didn't rescue anybody and that in fact you turned and ran like the big > commie pinko that you really are. > Ted > And they will call themselves Rescue Boat Veterans for Truth. (You know, that whole espisode still boggles the mind. You have two individuals, both patricians for lack of a better term. The first volunteers to serve during a time of war, never mind his conduct during or after. The other hides behind Daddy's trousers. Yet it's the first one that is somehow vilified and called a coward 35 years later.) -- Jim .