EXERCISE: And then what happened?

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Original posting 13 June 2012

All right! Pick a number from one to six...

1. Two of your friends have had a fight and are not speaking. One regularly makes inquiries about the other. Do you give information candidly?
2. You've accepted a date when someone you really like calls and asks you out for the same night. Do you try to get out of the first date?
3. A former lover sends you a charming gift. You are involved with someone else. Do you accept the gift?
4. In a meeting with the department head, your superior takes credit for the work of a colleague who isn't present. You support a family and need your job. Do you set the record straight?
5. A man and woman are engaged in a fierce argument while walking on a residential street. The man's manner is menacing. Do you keep a watch in case the woman needs help?
6. Your retarded brother is a year younger than you, but behaves like an overgrown child. The alternative is an institution. Do you have him live with you?

Now. Take that ethical difficulty, that problem, that painful point. Put us in that situation, with characters that live, and breath, and cry. And tell us what happens!

Moral dilemmas courtesy of the game "A Question of Scruples."

Write!