Dilemma

Paradox

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Paradoxs/Dilemmas/Ethics(PDEs)

I have always loved Paradoxs/Dilemmas and questions of Ethics.
For instance, when dealing with the "Horns of a Dilemma," what do you do?
I created a Paradox entry on Petey and Petunia sometime ago.
Thanks to a WWII veteran, I present one of many PDEs.
ENJOY!

Subject: Re: Dilemma

  You are driving down the road in your car  on a wild, stormy night, when

  you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus:

      1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.

      2. An old friend who once saved your life.

      3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

  Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could

  only be one passenger in your car?

  Think seriously about this before you continue reading.

  This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a

  job application. You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to

  die, and thus you should save her first. Or you could take the old friend

  because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to

  pay him back. However, you may never be able to find your perfect mate

  again.

  The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming

  up with his answer. He simply answered: "I would give the car keys to my

  old friend and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind

  and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams."

  Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn thought

  limitations. Never forget to "Think Outside of the Box."

  HOWEVER....

  The correct answer is to run the old lady over and put her out of her

  misery, have sex with the perfect partner on the hood of the car, then

  drive off with the old friend for a few beers.

  ....God, I just love happy endings

When you had left our pirate fold,
We tried to raise our spirits faint,
According to our custom old,
With quip and quibble quaint.
But all in vain the quips we heard,
We lay and sobbed upon the rocks,
Until to somebody occurred
A startling paradox.

A paradox?

A paradox,
A most ingenious paradox!
We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
But none to beat this paradox!

A paradox, a paradox,
A most ingenious paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
This paradox.

We knew your taste for curious quips,
For cranks and contradictions queer;
And with the laughter on our lips,
We wished you there to hear.
We said, "If we could tell it him,
How Frederic would the joke enjoy!"
And so we’ve risked both life and limb
To tell it to our boy.

A paradox?

A paradox,
That most ingenious paradox!
We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
But none to beat that paradox!

A paradox, a paradox,
A most ingenious paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
That paradox.

For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February,
twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty,
One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.
Through some singular coincidence – I shouldn’t be surprised if it were owing to the
agency of an ill-natured fairy –
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year,
on the twenty-ninth of February;
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you’ll easily discover,
That though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays,
you’re only five and a little bit over!

Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Ho! ho! ho! ho!

Dear me!
Let’s see! (counting on fingers)
Yes, yes; with yours my figures do agree!

Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

How quaint the ways of Paradox!
At common sense she gaily mocks!
Though counting in the usual way,
Years twenty-one I’ve been alive.
Yet, reckoning by my natal day,
Yet, reckoning by my natal day,
I am a little boy of five!

He is a little boy of five!

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
A paradox, a paradox,
A most ingenious paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
A paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
A curious paradox,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
A most ingenious paradox.