*** After I posted this I realized I didn't relate it correctly. It's all the
same as the first post except the very end of the story and the questions.
Here is the correct version... ***
Joe,
Another exercise started with a group of 5 or so too. We were told a story and
asked a question about it. We were to then discuss the story and first try to
come to a unanimous decision on the answer; and if we couldn't do that we were
to drive for a majority decision allowing for one and only one minority answer.
And of course in either case an explanation of our answer(s).
The brief version of the story was:
There were two young people, and young man and young woman. They lived on
opposite sides of a large river. Once a year the two peoples got together on
one side or the other for a festival. At one of these festivals the two young
people fell in love and promised to marry each other.
Before they could marry the two peoples became hostile to each other and not
only stopped the annual festival but did not permit any contact with the other
group. The two young people were shocked and desperate, but through an
intermediary, a ferry boat captain, they stayed in constant communication and
planned their marriage. They decided the girl would sneak out and take the
ferry over to the boy's side of the river.
The ferry captain carried all these messages back and forth and pledged he
would help, but when he got the girl on board his ferry he stopped the boat in
the middle of the river and told her he would only take her across to meet and
marry her betrothed if she had sex with him. She didn't know what to do because
she wanted to save herself for her future husband and knew if he ever found out
he would be devastated. She finally consented and had sex with the ferry boat
captain. He delivered her as promised to her betrothed the next day.
She was consumed by guilt and a few days later just before their marriage she
told her betrothed what she had done. Upon hearing this the young man rejected
her and refused to marry her.
The question is rank the three characters (young woman, young man and ferry
boat captain) in order (1, 2, 3) of whose actions were most moral to least
moral.
Again, the single goal and only direction given each group was to come back
with a unanimous decision on the answer. If this proved to be impossible, come
back with a majority and a single minority decision. And in either case an
explanation of our answer(s).
...Bill!
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