DILEMMA

YOUR BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING

• You're at your best friend's wedding an hour before the ceremony

begins. A little before arriving at the place of the ceremony, you have
definitely confirmed that your friend's girlfriend is involved with the
best man, since you have caught them secretly leaving a room.
• Telling your friend will ruin the day, but you don't want him to marry
someone who is cheating on him. What would you do?
 WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

•A: Tell him. It is clear that •B: Say nothing. What you
you will spoil the day, but better have to do is support him and
to spoil a day than a lifetime. participate in the happiness of
your friend.
 YOU ARE A WITNESS TO A CRIME:

• A man has robbed a bank, but instead of keeping the money for
himself, he donates it to a poor orphanage that can now afford to
feed, give clothes and take care of the children who live there.
• You know who committed the crime, but if you go to the authorities
with this information, it is most likely that the money will be returned
to the bank leaving the children in great need again.
 WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

•A: Inform the •B: Say nothing,

authorities of what because the money
has happened. has gone to a good
cause.
 THE ACCIDENTAL SAMARITAN

• On your way from home to work, you are involved in a two-car accident, in
which you accidentally kill a pedestrian. When you get out of the car, you are
intercepted by a woman with tears in her eyes who thinks that she was the one
who killed the pedestrian.
• You don't know why she thinks it was her, but she's convinced of it. There is
only you, this woman, and the person you have run over; there are no more
witnesses. You know that whoever is found guilty will surely end up in jail.
 WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

• A: Confess your guilt. You •B: Let the woman plead

couldn't live knowing that
there is an innocent person
in jail because of you.
guilty. Thinking that
you can be locked away
from your life and your
family, no way.
 YOU ARE WITH YOUR FAMILY ON A SMALL
PRIVATE BEACH WHERE THERE IS NO
LIFEGUARD.
• Your daughter and your niece, both 7 years old, really wanna swim. You tell
them to wait until the sea calms down a bit, but they ignore you and go into the
water. After a while you hear how they scream in fear, and you see that the two
are being carried away by the current. You are the only swimmer strong enough
to save them, but you cannot save both at the same time.
• Your niece isn't swimming very well, and chances are she can't take much longer.
Your daughter swims much better, but there's only a 50% chance that she can
hold out long enough for you to save your niece and come back.
 WHO TO SAVE FIRST?

• A: Save your daughter first. •B: Save your niece first

You know your niece will
hoping your daughter
probably die, but you can't
can hold out long
let your daughter die.
enough to save her.
 THE CASE OF THE ESCAPED PRISONER

• A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison. After one year, however, he escaped
from jail, went to another part of the country and took the false name of Mr.
Cruz. For 8 years he worked a lot and little by little he saved enough money to
ride own business. He was courteous to his clients, paid high salaries to his
employees, and most of his earnings he used in charitable works.
• It happened that one day Mr. Smith, him former neighbor, recognized him as the
man who had escaped from prison eight years earlier, and whom the police had
been looking for.
SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT MR. SMITH REPORT
MR. CRUZ AND GET HIM BACK IN JAIL?