A MORAL DILEMMA

di·lem·ma
noun
1. a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more
alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones.
mor·al
adjective
adjective: moral
1. 1.
concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or
badness of human character.

Try and answer YES or NO to each question.

Imagine that you are given a chance to dictate some rules of society before you are born. You
know that you could be born into a family anywhere on the economic spectrum, ranging from
incredibly poor to incredibly rich. You don't know the odds of being born into any such situation.
In this ignorant position, would you want laws that help those in the worst economic positions,
knowing that you could be one of those people?

Imagine that person P and person Q both drive drunk. A young child runs in front of both of
their cars. A sober person would have been able to stop in time to avoid hitting the child, but P
and Q were slow to react. Luckily for P, the child in front of his car was just slightly faster then
the child in front of person Q, and so P’s car barely missed him.
Thus, due to luck, P avoided killing the child, but Q did not. Should P be punished less severely
than Q due to this luck?
Generally speaking, is it unfair for someone to reap an enormous monetary benefit in return for
little to no effort, even if that person is capable of working much harder?
Is it unfair for children to inherit wealth from their parents without working for it?
If person A has a seizure on a train, and accidentally smashes his fist into person B’s nose,
thus breaking it, is there some moral imperative for person A to compensate B for the damage?