Ethical Dilemmas

Today let's discuss ethical dilemmas. A Louisiana justice refused an interracial couple a marriage license. You can read the article here:

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Personally I think the justice is a racist pig but he was being true to himself and his beliefs. I just think this is a case where you suppress your beliefs and do what the law allows. What do you think?

Just for fun what would you do in the following situations: (My answers follow each question)

You are on a country road and see two neighboring farm houses on fire. One is yours and the other belongs to a new couple who just moved in. Your wife and child are at home as are your neighbors. You can only save one house. Which one do you save? (Of course I save my house and call 911 for the other house)

You run an orphanage and have had a hard time making ends meet. A car dealership offers you a new van worth $15,000 for free if you will falsely report to the government that the dealership donated a van worth $30,000. You really need the van and it will give you an opportunity to make the children happy. Do you agree to take the van? (Nope)

You are shopping and notice a woman stuffing a pair of stockings into her purse. Do you report her? (I should report her but in all reality I wouldn't because I wouldn't want to get involved.)

You discover a wallet lying on the street. It contains $1000.00 and has his id in it. Do you send it back to him? (Yes. I've actually done this before.)

It is 3 a.m. and you are late getting home. As you approach the intersection you notice that no one is around. Do you drive through the red light? (I know the correct answer but I'm going through the damn light)

You can only rescue one of each of the following, which do you save?

a) A child or an adult (I'd cheat and rescue them both)

b) A stranger or your dog (the stranger unless it was Limbaugh or O'Reily)

c) Hitler or lassie. (Lassie)

d) Your spouse or a Nobel Laureate (Spouse. No hesitation.)

It is going to be interesting to see if your ethics are as flexible as mine! May your day be filled more with joy then ethical dilemmas!

TODAY'S TRIVIA;

Yesterday's answer: Amelia Jenks Bloomer

Today's is from Connie. If any of you have a hero or someone that you think would make a good Who Am I please go ahead and send them to me.

I was born in either 1919 or 1922. After my mother died when I was 14 I was looked after by other staff members at the hospital where she had worked. I went on to become a cardiologist. After World War II I authored books documenting the history of wartime resistance against the Nazi German occupation. In 1939, after the German invasion of Poland I was confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942 I founded an underground group. With the help of my comrades we began obtaining weapons and organizing into units that would make up for lack of training and munitions with an intimate knowledge of the Ghetto. In 1943 we started an uprising. On the second day of the Uprising a prominent insurgent was killed. Over the next three week the fighting was intense. We killed dozens of Nazi soldiers. On May 8 my commander was surrounded by Nazi soldiers and killed himself leaving me in charge. The Germans proceeded to flush out the remaining fighters by burning down the Ghetto. We escaped through the sewers and made our way to the non-Ghetto part of Warsaw. After World War II the Uprising was sometimes given as an unusual instance of active Jewish resistance in the face of the horror perpetrated by the Germans. We knew perfectly well that we had no chance of winning. We fought simply not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths. When asked of my heroics I was quoted as saying: "We knew we were going to die. Just like all the others who were sent to Treblinka.... Their death was far more heroic. We didn't know when we would take a bullet. They had to deal with certain death, stripped naked in a gas chamber or standing at the edge of a mass grave waiting for a bullet in the back of the head.... It was easier to die fighting than in a gas chamber." In mid-1944 I participated in another Uprising when Polish forces rose up against the Germans before being forced to surrender after 63 days of fighting. In 1981 despite it being dangerous to speak out in the country that I lived in I denounced racism and promoted human rights and later was interned by the government. In 1983 I refused to take part in the official celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the aforementioned Uprising sponsored by the Communist government. I believed that this would be an act of cynicism and contempt in a country where social life was dominated throughout by humiliation and coercion. Instead I walked with friends to the street where a comrade's bunker had been located. In my old age I spoke up for the Palestinians as I felt that the Jewish self-defense for which he had fought was in danger of crossing the line into oppression. In August 2002 I wrote an open letter to the Palestinian resistance leaders. Though the letter criticized the suicide bombers, its tone infuriated the Israeli government and press. I wrote in a spirit of solidarity from a fellow resistance fighter, as a former leader of a Jewish uprising not dissimilar in desperation to the Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories. There was a howl of rage in the Israeli press, especially since I had consciously used the terms that described the structures of the resistance movement in WWII. I was awarded the Order of the White Eagle and the French Legion of Honour. I was married and had two children. When my wife and children emigrated from the communist country we lived in to France I stayed behind and each April I laid flowers in my country for those who had served with me in the uprising. I died October 2, 2009. Who Am I?