Obviously I've stolen this (from an EGH3 hash trash actually) but I thought it was interesting.
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you
pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car? This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application.
You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first. Or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance pay him back. However you may never be able to find your perfect mate again.
LissaT
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Is there a 'right' answer?
I'd go for the old lady. The one who saved my life would understand perfectly seeing as how he is clearly one of the good guys, while I very much doubt if my ideal mate is the sort of idiot who would catch a bus in the rain and, probably in his fifties, hasn't earned enough to buy a car or got round to learning to drive. Come to think of it my dearest male friend fits that description perfectly, but - dear friend though Derek is - he never was the ideal mate I was dreaming of all my life.