A Question of Scruples' Journal (original) (raw)

| question #216 | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 09:03am 04/08/2004 | | | | | If a crystal ball would tell you the truth about any one thing you wished to know concerning yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know? | | | | | | (6 solutions | what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #215 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 09:22am 03/08/2004 | | | | | Would you like to be elected president of this country? Why? If so, would you still choose to be president if it meant that your sleep would always be very fitful and disturbed, punctuated by frequent nightmares? | | | | | | (2 solutions | what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #212 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 12:11pm 31/07/2004 | | | | | Ignoring all financial considerations, would you rather spend the next five years confined to the city of New York or to the environs of Morro Bay, a beautiful, isolated town on the California coast? | | | | | | (what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #210 | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 02:21pm 29/07/2004 | | | | | You are given a chance to return to any previous point in your life and change a decision you made, but you will lose everything has happened to you since then/ Is there a time you would return to? If so, would you like to retain the memory of the life you are giving up even though you could never recapture it? | | | | | | (6 solutions | what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #208 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 07:32am 27/07/2004 | | | | | If you came upon the scene of a terrible highway accident just after the ambulances arrived, would you stop to watch? Assume that your presence would neither help nor hinder the rescuers. | | | | | | (1 solution | what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #205 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 12:24pm 24/07/2004 | | | | | If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill 200 people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? | | | | | | (2 solutions | what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #204 | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 07:54am 23/07/2004 | | | | | Running too quickly on an icy sidewalk in front of a neighbor's house, you slip and break your leg. Would you be likely to sue the owner of the house if you were confident you could win the suit because of his negligence in shoveling the snow? | | | | | | (4 solutions | what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #203 | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 07:16am 22/07/2004 | | | | | Relative to the personality at large, how do you rate your physical attractiveness? your intelligence? your personality? | | | | | | (what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #202 | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 09:03am 21/07/2004 | | | | | Would you be willing to commit perjury for a close friend? For example, might you testify that he was driving carefully when he hit a pedestrian even though he had been joking around and not paying attention? | | | | | | (1 solution | what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #201 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 07:38am 20/07/2004 | | | | | Do you frequently find yourself -- just to be polite -- saying things you don't mean? For example, when you say good-bye to someone who does not interest you, do you act as though you enjoyed their company? | | | | | | (1 solution | what would you do?) | | | | | |

| question #198 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 09:54am 16/07/2004 | | | | | If you could pass your whole life cared for in every way as you slumbered peacefully, entranced by wonderful dreams, would you do so? | | | | | | (what would you do?) | | | | | |