Comments on: Ethical Dilemma #5 – Would You Lie?

By: GIOVANNI

GIOVANNI — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:19:58 +0000

hey u should always tell the truth even if u promised

someone and espicially if it is a police officer, so

tell the truth and make him go to prison

By: GIOVANNI

GIOVANNI — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:14:58 +0000

there’s someone here you’re scaring me stop lying officer

By: GIOVANNI

GIOVANNI — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:12:57 +0000

officer he went there

By: Guernica

Guernica — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:56:42 +0000

Well if we consider Kantianism theory then we have to say the truth to the police! If we dont want lie to be a universal law then we have to say the truth just because we want truth to be a universal law! Thank you!

By: Faatimah

Faatimah — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:37:23 +0000

I agree with prufock. Better to let the court make that decision than me.
Even if I did make the snap decision to the guy running, I would still tell the cops.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:33:40 +0000

It seem like it’s hard to judge that other people are irrational and unfounded. Some of us react on emotion. Some of us are probably better than others at reading other people. I think a typical human reaction is to want to protect someone terrified and desperate. Being placed in that situation so quickly and unexpectedly, looking into the mans eyes and hearing his pleas then being so terrified hiding, I don’t know, were his eyes evil. Did he seem like he was truly in danger of taking his last breath? Would it be so bad to say, yes several people have ran by me? Let the police figure out where he is now. Assuming they are good at what they do. There are so many scenario’s, feelings, emotions, a lot tied into it. Tough call… Tough call…

By: prufock

prufock — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:45:52 +0000

I wouldn’t make that promise in the first place. Even if I did, that would be negated when I see police ID. The runner has already lied to me by telling me he’s done nothing wrong when he is apparently resisting arrest. I don’t always have faith in the judicial system, but I have more faith in that than I do in my own ability to make a snap judgment under pressure. I know nothing about this man, what he’s accused of, or why he’s running. The police and courts presumably would.

By: CI

CI — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:19:44 +0000

Whether or not the man is innocent is, in my opinion, beside the point. He has been running and, too exhausted to continue, has thrown himself on your mercy. He has offered you a position of power, and you have accepted. And sometimes that means doing things you would normally find questionable. You have to lie to the police, in order to be consistent with your own character.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:53:07 +0000

Simple simple simple.

You made a promise to the guy by agreeing no?
It’s no difference to you regardless, unless you’re stuck in some Hollywood mindset.

Lie about it if you can. Karma will set things right regardless. The cops won’t stop, neither will the runner. All things will come out in the wash whether something gets you involved or not.

By: BunnyPants

BunnyPants — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:35:47 +0000

In my opinion i believe that it’s in peoples first nature to tell the truth to an authority figure if they themselves have nothing to hide. If it was myself, I would have no clue after making said promise that he was being chased by cops, so I would automaticly assume that the man being chased is a criminal(innocent people dont run from cops).

Also, if it were 2 goonish looking fellows, that would be totally reversed. In that situation, I would probably lie. Condemning a man to be harmed is against most people’s basic instincts of being decent humans.

In the end, it depends on who is chasing the man.