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Post by whiterose on May 21, 2007 9:29:55 GMT -5
I remember in 6th grade taking a test, no answer was wrong, but the point of the questions concerned a detonation of an atomic bomb. You're inside all safe, plenty of water food and behind a door that cannot be opened from the outside.
Others come to the door, children, new born babies in their mothers arms, men who have skills that no else has, fathers pleading for their children. Do you open the door, you know if you open the door, radiation will get in, but perhaps if it is quickly done it won't be to much. And the people out there are they so radiated that if you bring them in it will threaten all.
Some kids in my class laughed as they checked off ignore them, they did it easily and went on with private discussion, some thought about it and than did enie meanie minie mo. I agonized, was sick for a week, couldn't get the question out of my mind, although I remember answering my own version of an answer, none of the above, I would find a way because all had the right to live not just a few lucky ones, all were important.
I'm not sure why I am posting this, but perhaps somewhere in your thoughts, if you experienced anything like this, there may come an answer.
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Post by aligator on May 21, 2007 10:47:53 GMT -5
it says alot about you that this is still on your mind, and that you agonized over this question as a young child.
obeying the 10 commandments, you simply cannot do both.
do unto others as you would do upon yourself.
catch 22
but then again if you and all do not fear death, and know what is waiting on the other side, the answer to your 6th grade question is a no brainer.
Death is nothing to be scared of it is the suffering that comes before that is frightening./
great post.
ali
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Post by mfromcanada on May 21, 2007 12:05:05 GMT -5
Both good posts. Ethical decisions face us when we least expect it. They are some of the most difficult to make and seem to have very serious consequences either way. Being indecisive is a decision too. We should not be hot or cold but make a decision and then live with it. We have all made the decision to have life but many of us are disatisfied with the quality of it. The question is wheter or not you, yourself want to live, to have life. If you want to have life, then you must decide to keep the door shut. If you chose to open the door and let them in you may die. I have come to the conclusion over the past five years that most people are at their very heart, cowards. They are afraid to make an ethical decision. They leave them up to others so they can blame someone else. I had to make an ethical decision five years ago to blow the whistle. I lost every single solitary material thing I had and almost became homeless. I would do it again in a minute because I am not dead. I'll take life over death any day, even with Morgellons.
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Post by whiterose on May 21, 2007 17:18:57 GMT -5
A true patriot mfromcanada and I greatly admire the sacrifice you have made for the greater good of all, because that is what it is truly all about. I hope all of us here read and remember your words because they are so very important.
Let me get more exact on my question. To let others in at the risk of self seems a slam dunk for me, but what of the others with me. Do I not have to consider all, and do I have a right to put their lives at risk? What if they listen to me, they die and I live, could I carry that? Still looking through that window in the door with mothers with babes in arm, children and the men that come pleading for their own life.
So the question is do I have a right to choose when others lives will also be put in danger. What say you, ali and mfromcanada?
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Post by aligator on May 21, 2007 23:46:42 GMT -5
I say.....
It is all about faith and understanding what lies beyond our mortal bodies. Your body houses your soul, and I believe your soul goes back to where it originated from. If faced with such a decision, such as the one we are discussing, then it was meant by you to be a teaching to your soul, you chose the situation before you came here, as did the people around you. I believe we come here to learn lessons, some easy, some difficult, and put in a situation such as this, it is easy to be ambivolent. you are torn because not of death, but the anguish it might bring before death. I believe whole heartedly that we come here to take risks to learn. Learn from ourselves and others. The most important lessons we teach ourselves are the most difficult and agonizing, and absolutely neccessary to move on to the next lesson.
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Post by aligator on May 22, 2007 0:58:38 GMT -5
Also.....
let's say each of those people on the outside had a family member on the inside, it would be much easier to make a decision, right? You'd let them in.
WE ARE ALL ONE
I think that that is the lesson here.
we all lead important lives. Is one more important than the other? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. This is including al races, financial classes, professional status etc.
WE ARE ALL ONE
Somewhere along the way, that was lost in the teachings, maybe not lost, but certainly not applied with as much reverance as it should be.
Those lives on the outside of the door have the same importance as the inside, consequences and all....
Importance is not is who is at the door, importance is that they are.
that is what I say.
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Post by whiterose on May 23, 2007 17:55:10 GMT -5
Brilliant answer ali!
whiterose
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