Make a choice in this moral dilemma

[DallasEast]

Personally, I do poorly with Robin Hood analogies applied in different situations. The Robin Hood legend tells a story of a leader who steals from the rich, gives his ill-gotten gains to the poor, and fights against oppression.

A typical bank holds deposits of the poor and the middle class, so my initial impulse would be Choice A. However, a robber targeting a rich individual, who does not benefit the poor through appropriate (my word) degree of charity, via non-lethal demand, of which 100% (every cent) is given to the orphanage, would make me select Choice B.

 

[Runwildboys]

Assume he is Robin Hood and ask to join his band of Merry Men because they'd be more fun to be around, being merry and all, than this board after a loss. I would also ask if I could be Friar CouchCoach because he made the hooch and was the keeper of it and the main reason they were merry.

Was this armed robbery where he threatened some innocent bank teller or is she a former orphan herself from that very orphanage and the Inside Woman on this caper? This sounds like a wonderful Hallmark Christmas story. I can just hear one of the little orphans yelling "God bless us everyone....except Booger!"

FIFY

 

[Runwildboys]

The robber was armed with a 9 mm handgun, but no one was injured. No pedos are running the orphanage, just normal decent people. The bank is an ordinary mid-size town bank that is not very corrupt and has never foreclosed on an orphanage. The most corrupt thing it's ever done is its president cheated on his homely wife in the vault with one of his hot tellers in a consensual affair.

Two contradictions in terms in one sentence!

 

[dreghorn2]

The robber was armed with a 9 mm handgun, but no one was injured. No pedos are running the orphanage, just normal decent people. The bank is an ordinary mid-size town bank that is not very corrupt and has never foreclosed on an orphanage. The most corrupt thing it's ever done is its president cheated on his homely wife in the vault with one of his hot tellers in a consensual affair.

Sounds like we are playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons.

Assuming i am playing as a chaotic neutral character i would conjure an earth elemental to completely paralyze with fear the robber and anyone in the vicinity.

Relieving him of the money i would then turn invisible, find the tallest building in the area, dump the cash into the wind and head to the pub for a beer and a pastrami sandwich while sharing a laugh with the patrons.

Or something like that.

 

[Runwildboys]

Sounds like we are playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons.

Assuming i am playing as a chaotic neutral character i would conjure an earth elemental to completely paralyze with fear the robber and anyone in the vicinity.

Relieving him of the money i would then turn invisible, find the tallest building in the area, dump the cash into the wind and head to the pub for a beer and a pastrami sandwich while sharing a laugh with the patrons.

Or something like that.

LMAO!

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Two contradictions in terms in one sentence!

There's no contradiction. The "normal decent people" refers to the orphanage. The corruption refers to the bank.

 

[Runwildboys]

There's no contradiction. The "normal decent people" refers to the orphanage. The corruption refers to the bank.

The joke is that "normal decent people" is an oxymoron, as is a bank without much corruption.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

The joke is that "normal decent people" is an oxymoron, as is a bank without much corruption.

Okay, I get it. Anyway, hopefully it's an interesting moral dilemma anyway. It's what I loved about the 2016 movie, Passengers. The setup was a total moral dilemma. Some people whined about it and I was like, "It's supposed to be a moral dilemma, you ninnies, where he has no good choices." If you saw Passengers, you know what I mean. Some people trashed that movie, but they're wrong. It's a good flick.

 

[Runwildboys]

Okay, I get it. Anyway, hopefully it's an interesting moral dilemma anyway. It's what I loved about the 2016 movie, Passengers. The setup was a total moral dilemma. Some people whined about it and I was like, "It's supposed to be a moral dilemma, you ninnies, where he has no good choices." If you saw Passengers, you know what I mean. Some people trashed that movie, but they're wrong. It's a good flick.

Never saw it, no.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Never saw it, no.

It's a cool film. I felt like I was really on a spaceship. Don't confuse it with the Anne Hathaway movie of the same name, though. That one is dumb. Passengers of 2016 with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt is the good one.

 

[Runwildboys]

It's a cool film. I felt like I was really on a spaceship. Don't confuse it with the Anne Hathaway movie of the same name, though. That one is dumb. Passengers of 2016 with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt is the good one.

Oh that one! Lol. Yeah, I saw that one. It was okay. I thought maybe there was a movie like the series about the airplane crash. Lol

 

[DallasEast]

Okay, I get it. Anyway, hopefully it's an interesting moral dilemma anyway. It's what I loved about the 2016 movie, Passengers. The setup was a total moral dilemma. Some people whined about it and I was like, "It's supposed to be a moral dilemma, you ninnies, where he has no good choices." If you saw Passengers, you know what I mean. Some people trashed that movie, but they're wrong. It's a good flick.

I saw Passengers. Are you comparing the moral dilemma faced by Lawrence and Pratt's characters with your hypothetical one? Or are you simply saying both are 'moral dilemmas'?

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I saw Passengers. Are you comparing the moral dilemma faced by Lawrence and Pratt's characters with your hypothetical one? Or are you simply saying both are 'moral dilemmas'?

Well, in Passengers it was a very different moral dilemma where all his possible choices stunk.

SPOILERS follow

He could:
1. Live alone on the spaceship with no one but a robot bartender to talk to and probably go mad.
2. Throw himself out of the airlock (like he almost did).
3. Wake up the girl he liked, and have companionship, but be committing a crime against her.

There was one other choice they didn't explore, which was:
4. Wake someone else up, and commit a crime against them.

He didn't have a single good choice available to him.

 

[jsb357]

I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

 

[DallasEast]

Well, in Passengers it was a very different moral dilemma where all his possible choices stunk.

SPOILERS follow

He could:
1. Live alone on the spaceship with no one but a robot bartender to talk to and probably go mad.
2. Throw himself out of the airlock (like he almost did).
3. Wake up the girl he liked, and have companionship, but be committing a crime against her.

There was one other choice they didn't explore, which was:
4. Wake someone else up, and commit a crime against them.

He didn't have a single good choice available to him.

Yeah but

Spoiler

I cannot see a crime having been committed due to the movie's plot. Yes, I could agree to waking someone from suspended sleep and causing them to age normally during an extended voyage is criminal. However, fate decided multiple people (including Fishburne's character) must be awaken to save the ship or everyone would have died. In my opinion, the negative consequences of the movie's moral dilemma evened out as positive given the circumstances of the plot.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Yeah but

Spoiler

I cannot see a crime having been committed due to the movie's plot. Yes, I could agree to waking someone from suspended sleep and causing them to age normally during an extended voyage is criminal. However, fate decided multiple people (including Fishburne's character) must be awaken to save the ship or everyone would have died. In my opinion, the negative consequences of the movie's moral dilemma evened out as positive given the circumstances of the plot.

I agree completely, but some dufuses threw a fit over it with this "He was stalking her" and blah, blah, blah, and I was like "Shut up, already, it's just a movie. It didn't really happen."

 

[the_h0wey]

You witness a bank robbery. The man runs outside and is going to donate the money to an orphanage that had been struggling to survive. If you report robber, he will go to prison and the money will be returned. Orphans may have to go hungry and lose their place to sleep. What do you do?

A) Report him

B) Do nothing

C) Ask for the money in return for not reporting him

D) Ask for half the money for yourself and that he donate the other half to the orphanage.

E) Threaten to report him unless he donates to the charity of your choice

F) Kill the robber and take the money for yourself, then flip off the orphanage as you leave.

a

 

[smitty313]

G- Shoot him in the face, wait for the cops, say you're setting up a gofund me for the kids when you're interviewed on the news

 

[DallasEast]

G- Shoot him in the face, wait for the cops, say you're setting up a gofund me for the kids when you're interviewed on the news

Don't you think... shooting in the face might be... a BIT drastic?

I am only asking a question. Please. Do not shoot me in the face.

 

[smitty313]

Don't you think... shooting in the face might be... a BIT drastic?

I am only asking a question. Please. Do not shoot me in the face.

Actually it would be double tap in the face. Can't take a chance on zombies ya know