The moral dilemma thread
 

George and the weapons of mass destruction
George is a recently-qualified chemist with a young family to support. He finds it difficult to get a job due to a weak constitution. An older chemist friend tells George that he can get him a well-paid job in a chemical and biological weapons lab. George is not too keen. A child of the sixties, he is opposed to the creation and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction. The older colleague sympathises and agrees with his view, but notes that the job is not going to go away. If George doesn’t take it, some other chemist who is a zealous advocate of such weapons will get it. This will invariably result in the speedier development of better, more deadly weapons. What should George do?

Try to come up with some others as well, there are websites full of them out there.

Abortion.

NOVEL ONES YOU SHIT

Make the weapons, get paid and then destroy the weapons.

I AM READY TO BE ORALLY PLEASURED BY WOMAN BUT WOMAN DOESN'T FEEL GOOD BUT I AM READY TO BE ORALLY PLEASURED WHAT DO I DO.

Rape her mouth.

Here, Fido!

He should stop being a pussy and just take the job.

Havoc has a super developed moral conscience, you could all learn a lot from him.

Radeh radeh rah!

How about if you´re on a subway and you see a woman getting raped by a man with a gun. There are others in the same carriage but they´re not trying to help at all. Would you step in and try to save her?

Or join in? That's the real moral dilemma.

in my current situation (no siblings or such) i honestly wouldn't even think about it. when i read your question i was a little confused as to how it could have a different answer from 'yes', but realised it may be different for elderly, children and people supporting family.

I knew you would say that.

I knew you would know. I must live up to expectations. No matter how low they may be.

If I knew that the gun was empty/full of non-lethal ammunition. If not, I would find the video that had been circulated on the internet as evidence.

Yeah, piss off the people who specialise in weaponry.

i know. i was gonna mention how would he destroy them without suspicion, and if he thought he'd be able to get away with such a feat. but i couldn't be arsed.

To be fair, Oskar Schindler got away with it for months during the Second World War, so it's not impossible

If I have the sway to do so, TRY to make the chem weapons program make non lethal stuff.

Otherwise just work until a better job opens up.

Ok.. So Denmark had this really scary case of a girl who'd been raped. SOme guy dragged her, held her mouth, through the streets at night... There were plenty of people, because they were all out to the clubs and stuff. She looked as she really was in trouble, yet the police didn't get even one phonecall from people...
I can understand that people would be too scared to battle off 4 rapists... But not even call the police? I find it grotesque and disgusting how cowardly some people are.
I'd say if you're too weak, call the police and get help... If you're strong or have a weapon, go be a hero.

I think New York beat Denmark to Most Apathetic Bystanders by about fourty years.

*Forty.

Okay, say you are being chased by the two last meeches alive, a male and female. Or a queen and a drone, whatever. You have a big gun and you can easily take them out, but do you? Do you die or kill the last of this species?


~it doesn't have to be meeches, either...
Enchilado

Well that's great! New York wins the contest :)

If I was in the chemist's position, I'd take the job and try my hardest to build safeguards and limits into the weaponry. But I'd still take the job.

The choice is this: Don't take the job, fail to support family, weapons are built anyway. Or Take the job, support family and weapons are built. In this scenario, taking the job has more a more positive outcome.

However, personally I find it abhorrent that one of the most well-paid applications of science is this horrendous abuse of it. I, and no doubt George, could not look at myself in a mirror having taken this job, would feel like shit and sink deep into depression. That alone would probably be enough to tear our family apart, and is a good reason not to take it.

I think people are misunderstanding the point of this thread. He wants you to come up with interesting moral dilemmas, not solve the one he posted.

Actually I wanted both, you guys are my philosophical guinea pigs.

When Danson speaks, you listen.

Also, the trick of a moral dilemma is not the option you choose, it's the reasons you give.

Marisa Kirisame and Alice Margatroid are neighbours in the forest of magic. Marisa has an outgoing and silly personality, while Alice is quiet and reserved. One night during a party at the nearby shrine, Alice, a bit tipsy, admitted she had a romantic interest in someone. The other people at the party were too drunk to remember the conversation, but Marisa did. Over the past two weeks, Marisa has been trying to find out who it is out of both curiosity and an urge to reveal the romance to the person, whoever it may be.

Marisa's prodding never provoked a response from Alice, so she resolved to find out another way. When Alice left her house, Marisa entered through an open window and went snooping through Alice's study. There, she found Alice's diary, and discovered to her shock that she was the one Alice loved. Then she realized that she had just broken into Alice's house and gone through her most secret thoughts to obtain private information.

If you were Marisa, what would you do next? Leave the house, pretend you never looked in the Diary and try to act normal when Alice visits for tea? Or confront her about her feelings and all the repercussions from you trespassing?

Neither. I'd go ride a fucking unicorn.

Confront, that one seems pretty simple to me.

If you don't tell her then first off you'll have the guilt of breaking into her house on your mind, as well as the guilt of looking at her diary and all the uneasiness of knowing that one of your best friends jills off to you. If you tell her then you're sparing yourself the guilt, sparing everyone the lies and awkwardness, and if she stops being your friend because of it then frankly you were the one who broke into her house and you don't deserve her friendship.

But....Forest of Magic....Why waste your time when there are unicorns to be ridden?

You sure this premise isn't stolen from god-only-knows how many Yuri novels?

Also, why ride a unicorn when you could ride a pegasus? Or better yet, a wyvern?

Also I'm going to make a leap here and contribute to this topic;
You're spelunking in a deep, dark cavern. Your tour guide is a pregnant woman. Suddenly, one of the cave walls gives way and the caverns begin to flood with water. You rush to the only exit, only to find that debris from the cave in has significantly reduced the size of the hole. The pregnant woman, being in front, tries to get through the hole but gets stuck thanks to her girth. Try as you might, you cannot push her or pull her out. The water is rising fast. The other tour guide happens to have a stick of dynamite on him.

Do you light the stick of dynamite to blow the pregnant woman and debris out of your way? This will most assuredly kill her.

Or do you stay and drown while she, having her head outside of the cave, is able to breathe and survive?

Anyone here read Sophie's Choice?

Where do you think I got it from?

I got a moral dilemma for you, Ghost.
Gen Fukunga calls you up and tells you he wants you to be the new executive producer of Funimation productions and says he has perfected the technology necessary to bring any anime character to life to be your loveslave. He tells you to meet him for lunch at noon. You do, you talk, then he takes you back to a seedy motel. He ties you to the bed, drops his pants, and squats over your mouth. He tells you that if you want the job, you have to eat his defecation.

Do you do it?

Fuck no. If it was KyoAni, maybe.

Miooo <3

That's just disturbing O_o ... God I hate my brain for always showing me mental images of what I read.

Is this why you didn't like Dirty Potter?

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C'mon, you wouldn't eat his poop?

You people disgust me, and I'm asking a good friend if I can eat her.