Moral Dilemma Questions...
Q: Imagine you are placed in a room with Adolf Hitler when he is only 3 years old. You have a gun, know exactly what he does during world war 2 and will not be charged in any way if you choose to kill him, but at the time he is just an innocent baby, would you kill him?
Q: If given the opportunity, would you want to become immortal? By doing so, you would obviously
have to watch everyone you love die and would eventually end up being the only human alive.
Q: Whilst out walking, you find a bag in a bush containing $10,000 which has been hidden there by a
Drug Dealer who is currently in prison for 10 years. Would you be tempted to keep the cash?
Q: An elderly relative has a terminal illness and asks you to help them end their life. Helping them
commit suicide is against the law but your relative begs you. Would you assist with their suicide?
Q: You are friends with a married couple and one of them confides in you that they are having an affair.
Would you feel obliged to tell their partner or would you keep quiet?
Q: You are playing Poker with a close group of friends and one of them gambles their car and loses to
you. Would you call in the debt and expect them to hand over the car or would you let them off?
Q: You sadly discover you have only months to live and start planning your funeral. You have to
choose just one song that sums up your life to play at the funeral. What would you choose?
Q: Which of the following items would you least be able to live without for a year? The Internet,
your car, your cell phone, your partner or alcohol?
Q: You have the opportunity to live out your ultimate sexual fantasy with someone other that your
partner who would never indulge that fantasy. Would you be tempted if you could get away with it?
Q: Developers want to buy your home and demolish it in order to build a research centre in which
animal experiments will be conducted. They offer you double the market value, would you sell?
Q: You discover you will die in exactly five years time but if you win a coin toss you can live for
another thirty years. If you lose you will die in one months time. Would you take the gamble?
Q: Your boss is having an affair for which you have evidence. Your boss fires you for being
persistently late for work. Would you be tempted to use the evidence of his/her affair to blackmail
your job back?
Q: An asteroid is about to hit the earth but you, your partner and family will be safe in an
underground bunker. You can choose just one other person to take refuge. Who would it be?
Q: Your best friend is getting married in an hours time. You discover their partner has been having
an affair and have concrete evidence to prove their guilt. Do you tell your friend and ruin their big
day?
Q: You enter a quiz and the winning team will be awarded $10,000 for the charity of their choice.
You find a copy of the questions before the quiz. Is it okay to cheat for the benefit of a charity?
Q: You have been happily married for 10 years but discover that your partner appeared in several
adult movies before you met. Could you forgive your partner for not telling you about their past?
Q: If you could change gender for one week, what three things would you like to experience as a member
of the opposite sex?
Q: You have been sentenced to death. What method of execution would be your worst nightmare
and what would be the most tolerable?
Q: Would you be prepared to spend six months on your own on a desert island, completely cut-off
from civilisation in return for $250,000 cash?
Q: Your best friend asks you to stand as guarantor of a $5,000 loan. If they don't get the loan their house
will be repossessed. Would you be willing to take the risk considering that if they default, you become
liable for the debt?
Q: It's a new year, if you could have just one wish for the year to come true, what would it be? Choices are,
(1) The end of world famine (2) A $1,000,000 Lottery win (3) To live an extra 10 years.
Q: You have to decide on a new years resolution for a friend or partner. What would you choose
for whom and why, assuming they must stick to it?
Q: A huge comet strikes the Earth and wipes out 90% of life and all infrastructure. Would you want to
continue to live in such a decimated world or would you be tempted to take your own life?
Q: If you had the ability to change just one fundamental event or decision in your life so far, what
would you change and why?
Q: An 88 year-old man/woman invites you to spend the weekend with them as their lover. In return
you will inherit their entire estate worth a small fortune. Would you accept their invitation?
Q: Would you be willing to have your right arm amputated in return for a lump sum of $5,000,000?
Q: You discover your partner is having an affair. Would you be more or less hurt to discover their affair
was with a member of the same sex?
Q: You are the last hope for a distant relative who urgently needs a bone-marrow donation but there is a
20% chance you won't survive the operation. Would you agree to the donation?
Q: You have been sentenced to five years in prison and can take one material object with you to ease the
boredom. What would you take with you?
Q: You have a vague suspicion that your partner is having an affair and have discovered the password to
their email account. Would you be tempted to check their email?
Q: How much money, if indeed you have a price, would you need to be paid to sleep with person who
hadn't showered or washed for a month?
Q: Amongst your friends, family and colleagues, who would be the most likely to appear in an
'adult-themed' movie?
Q: You are given the opportunity to discover the exact date you will die. Would you want to know?
Q: How much money, if indeed there is a price, would you need to be paid to appear in a pornographic
movie? The movie is likely to be viewed by millions of people.
Q: Your home is burgled but fortunately the culprits are caught and your possessions returned to you.
What would you deem a suitable punishment for the burglars?
Q: Which would you prefer, to be 100% emotionally content or 100% financially content for the rest of your
life?
Q: Which of the following powers would you most like to possess? The power to become invisible, the
ability to read minds or x-ray vision?
Q: Would you be tempted to meet up with your first love if he/she sent an email asking you out for lunch?
Q: You spot two men running past your house late at night, looking anxiously behind them. You discover
the next day that a convicted paedophile was viciously attacked in your neighbourhood. Do you report
your sighting of the two men to the Police?
Q: You are having a dinner party and can invite any three people, dead or alive. Which three people
would you invite?
Q: A guilty child-killer has been sentenced to death by hanging. Could you fix the noose and open the
trapdoor?
Q: If you could introduce any law, what would it be? This law cannot be used for financial gain, for
example, outlawing taxation.
Q: Your partner is offered $100,000 to be photographed nude and the pictures published in a magazine.
What would your reaction be?
Q: You win a prize in a competition of two-weeks holiday every year for the next 20 years. The only catch
is that it has to be the same town or city every year. Where would you take your holiday?
Q: You can be reincarnated as any living creature except as a human. What would you like to be
reincarnated as and why?
Q: You have a vague suspicion that your partner is having an affair and have discovered the password to
their email account. Would you be tempted to check their email?
Q: An extra 6% on everyone's annual tax would guarantee the end of famine in Africa. Would you be
happy to pay it?
Q: You win a substantial amount of money on the lottery but a relative who you dislike is in serious debt.
Do you keep the win a secret from your whole family?
Q: You have been sentenced to death and are due to be executed tomorrow. If you could spend your last
hour with any person, living or dead, who would it be?
Q: You have to make one species of animal extinct. Excluding insects, which species would you make
extinct?
Q: If you could change your life, would you rather be a film star, a rock star, a famous sports person or
prefer to just remain yourself?
Q: If you could spend one week in any period of history, which period would you choose?
