by quater Sat Nov 14 2009, 01:12
Titaniumxvx wrote: quater wrote: Titaniumxvx wrote: quater wrote: Titaniumxvx wrote: quater wrote: Titaniumxvx wrote: quater wrote: Titaniumxvx wrote: quater wrote:Yay! ^__^
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Titanium! You are here!
And so are you! You know what this means?
(Neither do I) However, I can tell you are in a festive mood today!
I am in a festive mood! And Titan has come to tell me old tales of old!
I am not no ancient story teller!
I've come to collect a wittle debt
Then I shall pay you the debt!
I need to ask you a question.
If a the rich CEO of Shell Oil and a random poor homeless person were chained to the same track.
A train was coming at full speed and you ONLY had time to save one.
Which one would you save?
I'd save whichever one I could get to first. And if I could save the other with the sacrifice of my life, all the better.
I was anticipating your answer to turn out somewhat like that.
Actually, weird, everyone goes with the richer one.
Because if the world might revolve around something, it's either love or money, and maybe God
I didn't say richer one, though.
I think the reason people choose richer is not so much love of money. I would say that those who are richer have a typical higher standard of rules they live their life.
A large percentage of poor people have done or do: Drugs, heavy drinking, illegal activities, and other societal nonos.
While a richer person, even though he could be just as likely to do them, does lower collar crimes if he does them.
Plus, if he was a CEO of Shell, he must be a very smart, intuitive, and hard working guy. You don't get there based on nothing.
So if you had to save: The possible criminal who has made a lot of heavy mistakes in his life to get where he is, or the guy who is clearly very talented and tries to live in good standards, who then do you choose?
Again, we don't know that the poor person is a criminal or that the Shell CEO isn't a cheat. We just know that the CEO has a higher probability of being a good person and the poor person a higher probability of being a criminal. And then you have to ask, who do you save? A bad person, or a good person. The fact the CEO is wealthy is an indicator that he was a good person. Not, that he was in love with money.
But, I try not to weigh lives against each other if I can help it. But I can see why others would choose the rich person based on that criteria. ^