An Ethical Question For Today?

[Aerissa_Jade]

If you found someone who was magically trapped.

Don't worry about where or how you found them, use your imagination how this part came to be and how you would free them.

You discover during the painful process of trying to free them (for them not you) that $500 dollar gold coins spew forth from their mouth. They offer to let you keep whatever comes out, just please free them from this curse. All you have to do is set them free.

They admit they did something very awfully bad and was cursed into this situation but won't go into details.


What would you do?

Would it matter if you were in dire straights and about to lose everything as compared to being financially stable?

I would free them, trying to make it as painless as possible, letting them keep the coins from thier curse.

Same as above, but I would keep the coins. They did agree to that.

I would free them, hurting them more than needed to get extra coins in the process to keep.

I would not even try to free them, I would hurt them as much as possible to get rich. They did admit they did something awful and probably deserve it.

I would forget I ever found them and continue on my way.

[TallAnon]

It depends whether others can be aware of me making this choice and whether this was the punishment for their crime.
If this was in public, where others can see me make this decision, I would leave without even making eye-contact.
Otherwise, I would use my intuition to see whether this could be a punishment, if so, again, I will leave them because I don't want to suffer the same fate.
If there was no one to judge me for the choice and it seems to have randomly befallen him/her, I would consider what they can do to me once released, if negative or too small a value, extract the coins and kill them anyway. If they seem harmless and could benefit me once free, I would find a way to bind them, either with a contract, pledge, etc. If they benefit is massive (since we talk fantasy, say a princess), then she can keep those silly coins, just reward me properly later.

[Neosporin]

I'd free them and keep all the money. I don't know what I would do if I were poor. I'd feel bad hurting someone regardless though.

[Neosporin]

Thanks lady

[youngmix]

I would torture him and keep the money until he told me what he did, or until it started to become dark outside. (I assume that he's trapped outside.) I'd keep doing this for a few days, if need be.

Whether or not he ended up breaking, and told me his crime (s), I would offer to deliver a message for him as payment for all of the money he has made me. If the destination was near by, then I would offer to do it for free. If the message's delivery required a pilgrimage, then I would make him pay for the trip.. with his pain.

I would use the money I tortured out of him to hire a mercenary group, find the contacts he gave me, and do one of two things to them: 1) murder them, preserve their heads, and finally bring the heads back to him; or 2) If it were safe enough, I would abduct his contacts instead, bring them back to him, and kill them in front of him.

If I needed more money after that, then I would torture him some more. Depending on how heinous his crime was, I would continue torturing him, and prepare for the day he may become free. If I never found out what his crime was, then I would treat him as if he committed the worst of offenses.

[youngmix]

If his contacts were his wife and child (ren), then I would not kill them.

[Datboi65]

I like this question. My initial thought was someone trapped in an elevator, so I wanted to help. Then I read the rest of the piece, and my mind changed. If they did something terrible, they deserve it. No amount of money is going to get me to set them free. I care more about integrity. If I can sleep well at night, good. If I'm about to lose everything, I will somehow figure it our, but this is not the way to go.

[NathanDavis]

I would ask, first... if they regret all the bad things they've done it

and then I'd listen to the beat of their hearts rather than their words... if there's still malice in their ways, then I will make sure they remain trapped and hidden from anyone else that could help them go free

and then I'd go just go on my way... depending on the curse, I would come back every decade or so... to see if they have changed or remain to be their awful selves

[Shortman70]

I would figure out what they did to get cursed into this situation. Then decide whether to free them or not. Possibly keep some of the gold for helping free them. Hurting them for my financial gain would not be right. Even if I was bankrupt. Some things are wrong even if you do need it and they did wrong.

[ChrisMaster69]

Good question, the gold is irrelevant in this situation.

My bit would be on what they had done to be imprisoned.

On one side I would be tempted to push them to say what they did, they would eventually say.

or just accept that who ever shoved them there was correct in their judgement.

That would leave the option of Head shot and walk off or just walk off.

I pick just walk off.

[Кураж]

I would get the hell out of dodge.
If something has the power to make them puke gold, I don't want to know what I will have to suffer as the punishment for letting them go free.

I've seen the Leprechaun movies, I'm not messing with magic.

[Jasmine-Darkfire]

I would just yank them out as hard and fast as possible, and offer to split the coins 50/50 with them. I take the approach of ripping the bandage off as fast as possible, rather than slowly drag it out.

[dustybiker]

I’d call 911 (or area rescue) I don’t need cursed money. Sounds like too much trouble. Don’t want direct repercussions from freeing a cursed man either. I’d tell him to stay out of trouble. Then I would walk off.

[Flower7]

I would ask them what exactly they did to cause this. To know whether I should free them, I’d have to know if they deserve to be trapped and if they are dangerous.

[OneManOnly01]

I would help them and take the money BUT something is clearly wrong in this situation. It's a bit too weird and my sixth sense would tell me to stay away

[Agape93]

That honestly depends. But I'll probably just leave them there.

[Deathraider]

I’d free them and keep the coins. I have no reason to believe that they’re trapped there justly and they shouldn’t be tortured. They said I could keep the coins.

[Jamie05rhs]

It depends on what they did.

The gold coins are irrelevant.

[Honestguyopen]

If they are sincerely sorry for what they did, I think they deserve a second chance. If they needed the coins I would give them what they need.

[AndrésC64]

I wouldn't free them and make them suffer, I just leave them there in prison as it were.

[KostasKouvalis]

I voted B. Everyone deserves a second chance and you're God damn right I'm keeping the coins

[anylolone]

Investigate what the fuck is going on and how the fuck they can vomit coins?

[Naughtyboy71]

I would free them and help them why should
they be trap and me free

[nawtee_me]

Let them keep the coins because they are probably cursed to.

[legalboxers]

you need to have ethics to answer this. But some are followers... not leaders