{"id":2061,"date":"2009-07-22T08:04:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T16:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2009-07-22T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T16:04:40","slug":"an-ethical-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=2061","title":{"rendered":"An Ethical Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DECISIONS<\/p>\n<p>You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night,<br \/>\nwhen you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the<br \/>\nbus:<\/p>\n<p>1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.<\/p>\n<p>2. An old friend who once saved your life.<\/p>\n<p>3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.<\/p>\n<p>Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there<br \/>\ncould only be one passenger in your car? Think before you continue<br \/>\nreading.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is a moral\/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part<br \/>\nof a job application. You could pick up the old lady, because she is<br \/>\ngoing to die, and thus you should save her first. Or you could take<br \/>\nthe old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be<br \/>\nthe perfect chance to pay him back. However, you may never be able<br \/>\nto find your perfect mate again.<\/p>\n<p>YOU WON&#8217;T BELIEVE THIS&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble<br \/>\ncoming up with his answer. He simply answered: &#8216;I would give the car<br \/>\nkeys to my old friend and let him take the lady to the hospital. I<br \/>\nwould stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn<br \/>\nthought limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Never forget to &#8216;Think Outside of the Box.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER&#8230;.., The correct answer is to run the old lady over and put<br \/>\nher out of her misery, have sex with the perfect partner on the hood<br \/>\nof the car, then drive off with the old friend for a few beers.<\/p>\n<p>God, I just love happy endings!<\/p>\n<p>Another good emailer from Joe S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECISIONS 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-xf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}