Comments on: Moral dilemma short story

By: tasuki

tasuki — Sun, 16 May 2010 01:27:31 +0000

Oooh, that’s a much better version indeed!

And yes, I agree that the point of this exercise is that people can have different opinions.

By: Marek

Marek — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:22:11 +0000

Hi tasuki. The way I know the story is that they each live on the other side of the river and there comes a flood on the night before their meeting, destroying the only bridge connecting the opposing sides. There, if you wanted a reallistic scenario

By the way, I see the moral of the story in the fact, that no matter how many times this game is played, different people always sort the characters in all possible permutations (and always for good reasons!), meaning that world is not black and white. Which is good

By: tasuki

tasuki — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:46:17 +0000

I mostly share Santiago’s opinion. I might rank the guy as 3 or 2, even.

Stewart, the story doesn’t necessarily make much sense
Let’s say the guy had to go accross the river few days before her and simply paid the ferryman in cash.

In the end it’s the girl who’s worst off… and in my opinion she’s the one to least deserve it.

By: Hzik

Hzik — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:33:07 +0000

I think that the whole crossingriver idea was her, because she knew the ferryman is a pig, but she felt something exciting about cheating and like other girls she didn’t know what she realy want…

By: Stewart

Stewart — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:21:52 +0000

Wait:

Ferryman takes girl across river, she pays by sleeping with Ferryman, right?

So how did Guy get across the river? And why did they have to meet on the other side, while it was much easier to meet up at the ferry and cross that river together?

I think the moral of the story is about being inconsiderate, and plucking bitter fruit for being so.

By: Ondra

Ondra — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:22:09 +0000

And what is Tasuki’s opinion?

By: Ani&rei

Ani&rei — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:52:24 +0000

It seems that the guy didn’t really love her
Other characters acted just normally. It’s hard to point out single “bad” character. The ferryman just made his offer, but the question is how much he knew about the situation.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:17:40 +0000

By: Ondra

Ondra — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:27:25 +0000

The only “bad” character is the friend. Everybody else has right to do what they do.
Girl – used the only way to be with her lover (she didn’t harm anybody)
Guy – just made one (stupid) condition to let their relationship continue, without intent of manipulatate her
Mother – everybody has right to say “I don’t know”
Ferryman – just made an offer, he could let her be
Guy – made his subjective judgement and punish somebody by force (it is wrong)

By: Santiago

Santiago — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:22:32 +0000

Girl: 10, Guy: 4, Mother: 8, Ferryman: 1, Friend, 8.

Note: if the girl told her boyfriend about the ferryman, her grade should go down. It is also possible that she needed to tell him because she felt raped or very sad, if so the guy’s grade should be even lower.

My opinion obviously is that the girl did what she had to do given her goal (without it being something harmful to others). The ferry man is the bad guy in the story and the boyfriend is the stupid one.