Moral / Ethical Questions for Today

[Branca's Mom]

<span style='font-size: 11pt'><span style='font-family: Comic Sans MS'>1) Developers want to buy your home and demolish it in order to build a research centre in which animal experiments will be conducted. They offer you <u>double</u> the market value, would you sell? or since this is an animal board- How about <u>Triple</u>? Or <u>Quadruple</u>? That's a heck of a lot of money..... to ease your guilt.


2) Your home is burglarized but fortunately the low-life drug addict is caught and your possessions returned to you. What would you deem a suitable punishment for this burglar?

What if instead of a drug addict he was a family man who had recently lost his job couldn't get any government assistance and had a hungry family, including a severely handicapped child at home he was trying to feed? Should his punishment be less severe?


3) Which would you prefer, to be 100% emotionally content or 100% financially content for the rest of your life?</span></span>

[GSDolch]

1) Would depend on the type of testing that is being done and what the animals go through.

2) I would want him punished to the extent of the law along with getting help for his addiction.

I would want him punished to the extent of the law, along with given the resources to help care for him and his family.

(this type of stuff actually is taken into consideration when deciding the punishment)

100% emotionally content. Not going to do you alot of good financially if you arent happy.

[Liesje]

1) Yeah I'd take double as long as the experiments are for medical purposes, not stuff like cosmetics. As much as I love animals, I know why we know the things we do about genetics and certain medicines and treatments that save lives.

2) Honestly I wouldn't care as long as I have my stuff back! I don't know that I'd ever care to know who the person was or why they supposedly did it.

3) I'm pretty close to both, actually. Financially content simply means I can afford to take care of myself and my animals, I can make ends meet and have a bit on the side for my hobbies. I don't see why we can't be both, unless one has outrageous financial needs in order to feel emotionally content....these people don't ever seem to be happy anyway.

[GSDLVR76]

1) Developers want to buy your home and demolish it in order to build a research centre in which animal experiments will be conducted. They offer you double the market value, would you sell? or since this is an animal board- How about Triple? Or Quadruple? That's a heck of a lot of money..... to ease your guilt.

<span style="color: #FF6666">I couldn't sell my home for this purpose. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did.</span>

2) Your home is burglarized but fortunately the low-life drug addict is caught and your possessions returned to you. What would you deem a suitable punishment for this burglar?

<span style="color: #FF0000">A crime is a crime, whatever the system gave him.</span>

What if instead of a drug addict he was a family man who had recently lost his job couldn't get any government assistance and had a hungry family, including a severely handicapped child at home he was trying to feed? Should his punishment be less severe?

<span style="color: #C0C0C0">Even though the circumstance sucks, he committed a crime, so again whatever the system saw fit to punish him with. </span>

3) Which would you prefer, to be 100% emotionally content or 100% financially content for the rest of your life?
<span style="color: #FF0000">
100% emotionally content, I would rather be happy than rich.</span>

[jake]

I have gone through a lot of life struggles to get where I am today.I know who I am and where I am and I just do not know where I would go in the fictional scenarios you present.Are you asking for help in a real life problem you have?

[Branca's Mom]

No I'm sorry, I have always loved ethics in school and life. Find it fascinating how people think. These are nothing more than examples I pulled off the web where I tweaked them a bit to suit the board.

[selzer]

I'd sell. Someone else would, and that would mean I could get out of the hole I am in, and feed and care for my dogs longer. I am not against animal experiments if it helps animals including humans. I am not crazy about pouring perfume in the eye balls of critters, but testing food and drugs on animals before testing on people only makes sense in my opinion. But then I personally feel that an animals life is not as important as a human life.

Burglary is more than just removing possession, it is a violation, people feel violated when someone comes into their home, looks through and touches their things. Just because stuff is returned does not mean thay you feel safe leaving your home again. Someone's addiction does not give them the right to steal your stuff, sorry. Lock them up and protect society from the low life.

I guess the period of incarceration really depends on many factors:
1. is it a first offense?
2. was force or violence involved?
3. did the perp bring a deadly weapon?
4. is the point of incarceration to punish the offender or to protect the public or to discourage similar crimes?

Should motive play into the punishment? From the victim's point of view, does it matter if the person who violated them was looking to by some crack, or wanted to feed his kids?

We all want to appear charitable, but when someone comes in stealth and steals for whatever reason, no, it is the same. He is taking the food out of your kids' mouthes to feed his. The severely handicapped child ought to be getting a government check to help with their expenses. There are food pantries, and soup kitchens. People can beg, they need not steal.

If a healthy percentage of people in the country were literally starving in the streets, then I would be more lenient with the man who is stealing to provide for his family. I am not talking about people begging in the streets, or being fed in soup kitchens or the salvation army. I am talking about bloated bellies and dropping dead starving. Then you could say that a person was driven to steal to survive. Then you could say that his punishment should be less severe.

It has been a tough year. I would certainly like to be 100% financially content -- that would make a huge difference to the level of emotional contentedness I would enjoy. I spent 12 years in a job that was pretty emotionally draining, the the final two years were horrendous. I got out of there and spent fifteen months driving three hours a day to work at a high pace place. I know I am currently in a better place emotionally than when I worked for the first company. But the constant pressure of being out of work and unable to meet some commitments is also emotionally draining. So, I would sure like to try the financial contentment, and that would make it that much easier to deal with the emotional stuff.

[selzer]

Branca's Mom is loaded, and is looking for people to give money too.

Her method of picking is to give these little scenario tests.

I haven't hit the right answer, yet.

I keep trying.

LOL

[Branca's Mom]

No, I am going to commit suicide and am trying to find worthy people to give my eyes, heart, and other usable organs too..... LOL

oh, never mind that was a Will Smith movie!! oh well

[selzer]

I used to have "organ donor" on my driver's license.

Then I realized that I could be worth more dead than alive!!!

It is kind of like buying that insurance that will pay your credit card or loan if you die or are dismembered. Doesn't that sound like a great reason to put a contract out on someone???

Uhg! I wrote "too" in that last post when I should have written "to." I hate when that happens.