Conflicts...
Life is full of choices. Whether you live it to the fullest depends on making the right ones. A lot of times choices are plain black and white. There’s a clear cut wrong and right. Well, depending on your convictions of course. Issues like euthanasia (mercy killing), abortion or the very simple motto “steal from the rich, give to the poor” fall into the grey area basket more often than not.
Lets take a look at some simple situations.
Scene A:
Lets say you went to buy something at a supermarket. You paid for it and the cashier gave you back your change. You walk back to the car and you drive home. When you get home, you take the change from your pocket to fill your wallet and then you realize that the cashier gave you $10 extra. Now, would you return to the store to return the money?
a) If you said “Yes”, would you do it if it was $1?
b) If you said “No”, would you do it if it was $100?
Scene B:
Let’s say you have a good friend. He’s got a driver’s license but he doesn’t qualify to rent a car because he’s under the age of 21. You qualify to rent the car for him, and that’s exactly what he requested you to do. You want to help him and not jeopardize the friendship. At the same time, you don’t want to do something illegal. What would you do?
Scene C:
You get back an exam paper from your professor. You got way much better than you expected and very well relative to the class. You’re curious and you flip through the pages of your solutions and found that the professor made a grading error. He should have taken some points off an incorrect answer but he didn’t. It’s a tough class with competitive classmates and you probably wont do so well in the next midterm. Would you go to your professor to have the points deducted?
I’m not going to share my own convictions on the three situations. Reasons being either not to making myself look too self-righteous or too criminal. The answer to “What Would Jesus Do?” (WWJD) is pretty predictable. But being in the same situation in real life, would you do the same?
Lets take a look at some simple situations.
Scene A:
Lets say you went to buy something at a supermarket. You paid for it and the cashier gave you back your change. You walk back to the car and you drive home. When you get home, you take the change from your pocket to fill your wallet and then you realize that the cashier gave you $10 extra. Now, would you return to the store to return the money?
a) If you said “Yes”, would you do it if it was $1?
b) If you said “No”, would you do it if it was $100?
Scene B:
Let’s say you have a good friend. He’s got a driver’s license but he doesn’t qualify to rent a car because he’s under the age of 21. You qualify to rent the car for him, and that’s exactly what he requested you to do. You want to help him and not jeopardize the friendship. At the same time, you don’t want to do something illegal. What would you do?
Scene C:
You get back an exam paper from your professor. You got way much better than you expected and very well relative to the class. You’re curious and you flip through the pages of your solutions and found that the professor made a grading error. He should have taken some points off an incorrect answer but he didn’t. It’s a tough class with competitive classmates and you probably wont do so well in the next midterm. Would you go to your professor to have the points deducted?
I’m not going to share my own convictions on the three situations. Reasons being either not to making myself look too self-righteous or too criminal. The answer to “What Would Jesus Do?” (WWJD) is pretty predictable. But being in the same situation in real life, would you do the same?
posted by Mike Ng at 12:46 PM
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