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Friday, April 17, 2009

Morality Question

There's a morality test with only one question, but a very important one. It features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a choice. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.

THE SITUATION:

You are in Florida. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.


You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.

THE TEST:

Suddenly you see a man and a woman in the water. They are fighting for their lives, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow they look familiar. You suddenly realize who they are. It's Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi!! At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take them under forever. You have two options: You can save their lives or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the deaths of two of the world's most powerful people.

THE QUESTION:

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer...

Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

12 comments:

drive4success said...

high contrast color, then scan it and convert the digital to black and white ofcourse. DUH!!!

too easy. next.

Anonymous said...

This is sickening.

Anonymous said...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHA

Anonymous said...

This is a terrible joke, come on the black and white thing, get a grip, its 2009.

Anonymous said...

It's not a terrible joke, it's funny.

Anonymous said...

What a macabre sense of humor. I refuse to entertain this madness.

Anonymous said...

If this is someone's idea of a joke, I fail to see the humor.

Anonymous said...

The same joke circled with Bush and Cheney and it was set in New Orleans during Katrina.

These moral high-grounders won't admit it, but they probably heard it then and laughed.

It's a joke people. Lighten up.

10:25
You are contradicting yourself. I think you DID entertain it by reading it and then commenting.

Anonymous said...

I see the assumption is that they would be allowed to drown, all for dollars. Money will surely turn a man's head.

Anonymous said...

"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"

Anonymous said...

Morality question? God save us all.

Anonymous said...

"Moral high-grounders"? I guess we all have different sets of values.