Hypothetical Ethical Question

[jsalcedo]

I have been faced with similar situations on a number of occasions.

I tried talking to the victims and none of them wanted help.

I tried talking to the abuser/user/addict and got a line of bull each time.


The best thing to do is remove yourself from the situation and cut off all ties to the sick individuals. Other than temporarily sending them to jail or rehab
(which will really piss them off) you can't help people that don't want help.

Believe me, I've been through this before, people who seem nice, hard working and moral to outsiders can really be sickos under a thin facade.


If this is a true situation...Get uninvolved, protect yourself and your family from this persons destructive behavior.

 

[Travis McGee]

No brainer. Somebody--anybody--is playing Russian Roullette and pointing guns at innocents...you intervene. Period. You blow the whistle. You do not risk hearing news like we had yesterday in SoCal, where the disturbed DA's investigator killed his family and then himself.

 

[GT]

first response: ***?

second response: I don't answer hypothetical questions, especially those posed by women.
There is always an agenda that is not made clear, and that is unfair as it stems either from a basic dishonesty (the question is not hypothetical) or from an attitude of superiority (let's throw something through the bars and see what they do).

What if....um... space aliens gave us a new firearms technology and the head of a well known RKBA group misused it to buy cigareets and whiskey and wild, wild women?

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[jsalcedo]

What if....um... space aliens gave us a new firearms technology and the head of a well known RKBA group misused it to buy cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women?

Damn dirty alien!

 

[Model520Fan]

I hardly understand the question, but I know that birddog had the right answer.

 

[bogie]

Assuming that it is a larger organization, person involved is likely more or less a figurehead. So talk to the other leadership within the organization, show up one morning, and stage an intervention. Ultimatum time - you're there with the folks, and a car waiting outside. He's either resigning, or going into treatment. Now.

Hold the press conference immediately thereafter, whatever the result. If the person resigns, it's for health reasons.

 

[Bubbles]

jsalcedo has it right. Walk away and cut all ties with the person and the group.

Not hypothetical - I attended a public meeting of a gun rights group where one of the founding members, who was at the time on the BoD and had been quoted in the local newspapers on gun rights issues, pointed a firearm at other attendees. He refused to stop when asked repeatedly to do so. The BoD refused to boot him afterward.

That was the last meeting I attended.

 

[iapetus]

Surely "NRA (eg) fires director for misuse of guns" will be far less damaging to its reputation than "NRA director arrested for gun/drug/shooting people offence".

 

[FPrice]

There is a saying in the military, "Bad news does not get better with age.".

If something has to be corrected, do it as soon as possible before someone gets hurt or killed and many others suffer.

BTW, just how "fictional" is this scenario, really?

 

[grampster]

Intervene.