One Inviolable Rule

Re:One Inviolable Rule by cosmo7 on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @09:41AM (#287994)

> I can, without hesitation, proclaim that eating children is categorically wrong.

You are captain of a cruise liner full of children. The ship is boarded by pirates. These pirates are utterly evil and utterly truthful. They demand that either you eat one child, who happens to be about to die of a congenital heart defect, or they will blow up the ship and kill hundreds of children.

What do you do?

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Re:One Inviolable Rule by asif on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @10:03AM (#288017)

I'm not sure what I would do, but I know what Jack Bauer would do. He would eat the pirates.

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Re:One Inviolable Rule by khafra on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @10:36AM (#288058)

Absolute veracity is generally acknowledged to be a virtue, conflicting with the "utterly evil" trait. Thus, the pirates disappear in a puff of logic. This once again proves that conjectural sophistry based on impossible examples is categorically un-compelling.

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Re:One Inviolable Rule by rokhayakebe on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @09:53AM (#288007)

Dude, you have a wild imagination.

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