Subj : Re: Ethics test To : Nick From : Finnigann Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 08:58:00 -=> Nick wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=- Ni> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Ni> Jim Larson wrote: > 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.) > Ni> (Not to mention that joining the national guard is considered hiding Ni> behind daddy's trousers.) And he ducked out on that when the unit was called up for service in SEA. .... "We're all washed in by the very same rain" - Pat Humphries --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.46 .