Question of Morality

[Bill3000]

My opinion of humanity should be inevitable from my signature.

Kitty stays.

 

[IglooDame]

The original scenario specifically ruled out the posibility of such an event occuring

this person will not be anyone who you are acquianted with in any way." -Narz

Sure, but it is Satan telling you that. I'm fairly sure that he's under no inherent obligation to be honest while in the middle of dealing out a murder.

But to the necromanced OP, one of my cats would go. Hopefully painlessly.

 

[wicshade]

i have very elastic morals,

it would make no difference to me, because i can find justice in either action.

 

[Stapel]

Since I have no pets, I must pick the random human. However, I would ask the devil howmuch money he wants for letting ME to decide which human being is going to lose his head .

 

[IglooDame]

Since I have no pets, I must pick the random human. However, I would ask the devil howmuch money he wants for letting ME to decide which human being is going to lose his head .

Is he a capitalist? Because I'd perform that service for free.

 

[MobBoss]

Sure, but it is Satan telling you that. I'm fairly sure that he's under no inherent obligation to be honest while in the middle of dealing out a murder.

But to the necromanced OP, one of my cats would go. Hopefully painlessly.

Precisely. There is always some kind of 'fine print' in the scenario, that allows Murphys Law to kick in and then all of a sudden, whack, something dreadful happens when you thought it was a safe bet.

 

[IglooDame]

Precisely. There is always some kind of 'fine print' in the scenario, that allows Murphys Law to kick in and then all of a sudden, whack, something dreadful happens when you thought it was a safe bet.

Yep. Take "this person will not be anyone who you are acquianted with in any way." The devil then picks the person who will otherwise heroically sacrifice their life to push you out of the path of a drunk driver tomorrow. Or gives the driver of a car going in the opposite lane of a highway your loved one is driving a stroke, resulting in a 100mph head-on collision that wipes out your entire family.

Though all this aside, I don't actually believe in Satan, but if I did, I'd imagine that he'd be a pretty fair contract lawyer.

 

[Leonel]

The pet. What if the person is acquainted with my family and the death of that person makes my family member kill his/herself?

 

[MobBoss]

Yep. Take "this person will not be anyone who you are acquianted with in any way." The devil then picks the person who will otherwise heroically sacrifice their life to push you out of the path of a drunk driver tomorrow. Or gives the driver of a car going in the opposite lane of a highway your loved one is driving a stroke, resulting in a 100mph head-on collision that wipes out your entire family.

Though all this aside, I don't actually believe in Satan, but if I did, I'd imagine that he'd be a pretty fair contract lawyer.

Or, the less obvious, he makes you choose to kill a person, and that person ends up being someone significant to world peace....and then he kills your pet anyway.....

 

[IglooDame]

Or, the less obvious, he makes you choose to kill a person, and that person ends up being someone significant to world peace....and then he kills your pet anyway.....

Or you decide in favor of the person you don't know, and the next day a tsunami kills a quarter-million people on the coast of the Indian Ocean. "Wait," you protest, "you said only one person dies so my pet doesn't have to!"

And the devil explains to you that 249,999 other people also chose to save their own pet yesterday.

 

[Murky]

I would tell him to stop smoking crack and to go take a hike.