Some questions for entertainment

[cloakeddeity]

*WARNING* I will not provide the answers till i get some responses or opinions first

Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already,
three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she
had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?

Question 2: (i will give the answer to this one first

Comments

Re: Some less than definite answers

[cloakeddeity]

Edit that comment don't give answers please -delete then repost if you can

Re: Some less than definite answers

[fair_witness]

Edited per Yvette's request, and a bit more verbose this time

Re: Some less than definite answers

[cloakeddeity]

*blows kiss* thank you FW

[jscheme]

If you had someone give you questions intentionally designed to elicit specific answers which would then make you look silly in historical retrospect, what would you do?

Say I do not have enough information to answer the questions, thus doing on of the classical side-steps of dillemas.
[Yes, Yvette, I'm on to you :)]

[cloakeddeity]

Hey i went through it - might as well let others give an opinion or answer.

[jscheme]

Well, I personally always felt those questions were the height of intellectual dishonesty -- because they don't really explore interesting ethical issues, like they seem to, but rather attempt to give just enough information to elicit a specific response. There are ethical interesting issues to explore, both with the abortion issues and with the relationship between a politician's personal life and his politics -- but I feel that questions such as these do them injustice. This is just my opinion, and I have no wish to personally offend you. (You should know I like you a lot by now. :)
[Oh, and come on, "vegetarian"? That's a dead give-away :)]

[cloakeddeity]

::blushes::
i just put this questions up cause i found it's responses rather funny.

[joan_the_slayer]

That third candidate for office sounds awfully familiar somehow...

[evalon]

question 1) not enough info, and did she ask for my opinion?

question 2) not enough info again, but thinkin' #3 sounds too good.

[fair_witness]

If it makes you feel better, reportedly his vegetarian diet had nothing to do with his love of animals and a lot to do with a touchy tummy.

[evalon]

nope, not helping there......as soon as i read the description for him, i got Adam Ant's 'Goody Two Shoes' in my head.

[fair_witness]

Well, nothing wrong with your instincts telling you that someone seems too good to be true.

Questions.

[singindemonhq]

Q1

In theory, get the
the mother's views,
but who this is,
would be no news,
remember that I do
know music well.
(The child escaped
the surgeon's knife,
and suffered deafness
late in life?)

Q2

I also know
some history,
the answer here's,
not hard to see.
E x a m i n e
e v e r y
p o l i c y.

(But two of those politicians are more or less heroes, right? With one - his country mourned his death; people wept in the streets as the funeral passed. His great age was surprising in view of his enthusiastic vices.

....and there is one of those politicians that deserves a special pit of Hell. The family history made him as good a candidate for abortion as the the subject of the first question, did you know?)

Re: Questions.

[singindemonhq]

and your answer went up while I was checkin the spellin on the one above