Moral Dilemma: You and President Obama are in a plane alone
together. The plane’s engine fails; President Obama, for reasons unknown, has
no parachute, but you do. Do you give him your parachute and die, or do you
keep your parachute and let him die? Why?
Problem: The main problem I see with this situation is that
it seems like a lose-lose situation. If I
give the president my parachute, I will die. If I keep my parachute and
survive, there is a good chance I will be imprisoned for the rest of my life
taking the blame for the death of the president.
Claim: in that situation, I would not hesitate to keep my
parachute. If questioned about the presidents’ death, I would lie and say that
he used the last moments of his life heroically to save my life by giving me
his parachute. In the reverse situation,
if I gave the president my parachute, I would make him promise to make sure
that my family was taken care of financially.
Reason: I would keep my parachute out of the sheer human
instinct to survive. It’s either him or me. If I have to fight him for the
parachute, so be it.
Principle: if that scenario actually happened I would stick
by my decision to keep my parachute.
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