Subj : Re: Ethics test To : alt.tv.farscape From : John Iwaniszek Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 05:08:08 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96CD845D065F63v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > 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.) > That's the Liberal media for you. .