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Post by toby on Nov 13, 2012 18:15:04 GMT
BA posted.:-Your doctor tells you that you're going to be fine. But then you notice a figure coming up behind him.
Toby comments.;- I would not alarm the Doctor but I would light a candle for him once a year.
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Post by Hunny on Nov 14, 2012 9:10:40 GMT
Atticus posted.;-I'd use the dog as bait to distract the sharks so the person could swim to safety. Toby comments.:- Poor Dog ! I would throw Atticus into the water and I would tell the sharks to get him !
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Post by Hunny on Nov 19, 2012 14:00:46 GMT
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The Overcrowded Lifeboat In 1842, a ship struck an iceberg and more than 30 survivors were crowded into a lifeboat intended to hold 7. As a storm threatened, it became obvious that the lifeboat would have to be lightened if anyone were to survive. The captain reasoned that the right thing to do in this situation was to force some individuals to go over the side and drown. Such an action, he reasoned, was not unjust to those thrown overboard, for they would have drowned anyway. If he did nothing, however, he would be responsible for the deaths of those whom he could have saved. Some people opposed the captain's decision. They claimed that if nothing were done and everyone died as a result, no one would be responsible for these deaths. On the other hand, if the captain attempted to save some, he could do so only by killing others and their deaths would be his responsibility; this would be worse than doing nothing and letting all die. The captain rejected this reasoning. Since the only possibility for rescue required great efforts of rowing, the captain decided that the weakest would have to be sacrificed. In this situation it would be absurd, he thought, to decide by drawing lots who should be thrown overboard. As it turned out, after days of hard rowing, the survivors were rescued and the captain was tried for his action. If you were the captain, knowing you'd be tried for murder, would you have saved some of the passengers, as he did? If you had been on the jury, how would you have decided?
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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 19, 2012 15:29:40 GMT
Well....I realize I would probably feel differently if it was one of my loved ones that got chunked over the side......but I would be against even bringing charges against the Captain. So absolutely not guilty.
Sometimes the choices in severe situations aren't pretty but they have to be made.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2012 16:32:15 GMT
The captain should have sacrificed himelf along with the passengers; the last man overboard.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Nov 19, 2012 16:44:11 GMT
I would ask for Debbie's phone number ;-)
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Post by Synonym on Nov 19, 2012 18:05:35 GMT
If it can be established in a court of law that the Captain had made an honest, reasonable assessment of the situation, then I would not hold him guilty of any wrongdooing. Either legally or morally.
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Post by Hunny on Nov 20, 2012 10:55:09 GMT
I don't think this is simple. As the captain, you'd literally have to murder people, drown them. Could you really do that? Wouldn't you try arranging for them all to be able to bail water, and give it your best shot at all getting home? I think I would. I just wouldn't have what it takes to force people to their deaths. And I wouldn't know how to believe we "can't" make it otherwise. We'd soldier on and go home.
If you did it anyway, and ended up on trial for their deaths, you should expect it, but also expect a good deal of leniency, IF it can be PROVEN that the boat wouldn't have stayed afloat otherwise.
If it can't be proven, then maybe you just panicked and threw the weaker people out, which is oh so wrong.
((And shouldn't the Captain get out first? Why was he he even aboard a dangerously overcrowded lifeboat? Isn't he supposed to go down with the ship to give all others the best chance of getting out?))
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2012 12:34:43 GMT
I agree with Hunny on this one, the Captain should never have been in that boat, he should have gone down with the ship. I believe that is also an offence , i.e abandoning your ship.
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Post by Hunny on Nov 26, 2012 12:39:29 GMT
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The Secret You've been the D.A. of your town for over a decade. Election time is a couple weeks away. You're pretty much a shoe in, because the person running against you is new and untried, and there has been a series of brutal murders in the downtown district; no one will be in the mood for taking chances now. The community is getting scared and demanding this get resolved soon. You're at a late night secret party at an exclusive club on the 3rd floor. You go to the bathroom for a quick break, and you happen to glance out the window and see some movement down below in the alley. There's something odd about it, so you look closer. Right then a man steps into the light for just a quick moment. You see his face perfectly, and then he walks out of the alley, and on into the night. You can’t see anything else in the shadows, and put the moment out of your mind. You continue with your good time, and then go home. You are awakened to a phone call that another murder was committed. It was in the alley next to where you were last night. You saw the person you think could be responsible. It’s the break the case needs and can stop a serial killer. However...the party you were at was for cross dressers. You make a convincing looking woman, so no one at the club knows who you are.....but you would have to explain where you were and what you were doing there. Your wife and children would be humiliated and possibly leave you. Your parents and friends, everyone you know would find out. And then there is the election. You would surely lose your job. ...or would the town be grateful to you for stopping the killer? One thing's for certain, if you don’t step up more people could die. What do you do?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 13:41:43 GMT
What do you care more about - human life or your job?
You'd have to be honest and risk your career for the better of the people.
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Post by Hunny on Nov 26, 2012 16:11:33 GMT
It wouldn't just be your job. It'd be your family and friends and everything. Your life. So do you throw your life away, when for all you know they could catch the guy the next day without your help anyway?
It's easy to pick the noble choice, when it's just imaginary. But what if your life really was going to be lost, as such? I bet 99.9 out of 100 would stay shut up about it, if they were really in this situation.
Also being the D.A., he'd have the means to go match the face with a suspect and then provide an anonymous tip. I'd do that.
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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 26, 2012 22:28:38 GMT
Also.......was the person you saw really the killer.....or just someone in the wrong place at the wrong time..........you might throw it all away for nothing.......but then.....what if you don't do anything and the next murder isn't some unknown person.....but a friend or a loved one?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 9:11:45 GMT
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The Secret You've been the D.A. of your town for over a decade. Election time is a couple weeks away. You're pretty much a shoe in, because the person running against you is new and untried, and there has been a series of brutal murders in the downtown district; no one will be in the mood for taking chances now. The community is getting scared and demanding this get resolved soon. You're at a late night secret party at an exclusive club on the 3rd floor. You go to the bathroom for a quick break, and you happen to glance out the window and see some movement down below in the alley. There's something odd about it, so you look closer. Right then a man steps into the light for just a quick moment. You see his face perfectly, and then he walks out of the alley, and on into the night. You can’t see anything else in the shadows, and put the moment out of your mind. You continue with your good time, and then go home. You are awakened to a phone call that another murder was committed. It was in the alley next to where you were last night. You saw the person you think could be responsible. It’s the break the case needs and can stop a serial killer. However...the party you were at was for cross dressers. You make a convincing looking woman, so no one at the club knows who you are.....but you would have to explain where you were and what you were doing there. Your wife and children would be humiliated and possibly leave you. Your parents and friends, everyone you know would find out. And then there is the election. You would surely lose your job. ...or would the town be grateful to you for stopping the killer? One thing's for certain, if you don’t step up more people could die. What do you do? I would think about pretending I was somewhere else nearby, somewhere other than at the party. But a moment's reflection tells me that would be unlikely to stand up to close scrutiny. So I'd probably leave it for a bit and hope the police arrest someone - and that the someone is the man I saw.
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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 27, 2012 15:33:34 GMT
What about sending a letter (no fingerprints) and explaining what you saw and just saw "I can't come forward personally"..........
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Post by Hunny on Nov 27, 2012 15:57:49 GMT
What about sending a letter (no fingerprints) and explaining what you saw and just saw "I can't come forward personally".......... Yea, but what if they need him as a witness?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 17:24:59 GMT
What about sending a letter (no fingerprints) and explaining what you saw and just saw "I can't come forward personally".......... Well yes, in Britain we have Crimestoppers, which people can call anonymously. But if they don't have a name, this will be a little more difficult; the witness might have to go to the police station to do one of those identikit pictures. If someone is arrested they might have to do an identification parade. Given my job, what I was doing is bound to leak out.
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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 27, 2012 20:24:39 GMT
I think I would probably try the Crimestoppers route first.........but I'm not sure I could deal with the death of another person if I believed I could have done something........since the person is the D.A. seems like they could write up something with all the details that a sketch artist would ask......
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Post by Hunny on Dec 3, 2012 12:21:13 GMT
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I hope this isn't too nasty a subject. I was just surprised by my own answer. You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?
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Post by Hunny on Dec 3, 2012 12:24:22 GMT
I would not pull the chair from underneath him. I would stab the guard in the eyes with my fingers as hard as I could, knee him in the balls and strangle him, hopefully till he was dead. I expect though I'd get shot first. But maybe they'd forget about killing the second inmate. And the guard would now be blind.
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