Ethical Decisions

Originally posted by KEPike
A good one that I've heard:

Your fraternity house is on fire. You have just enough time to either: a) save your girlfriend of three years who you are in love with and may marry, b) save a brother in the next room, or c) save the regalia and some of the historical artifacts of your chapter.

What do you do?

There is no right answer, but it is always fun to ask this to some guy who is "whipped".

Yeah, we ask something similar to that when we interview brothers. We've gotten some odd responces, needless to say many from people who didn't make they cut. one person said "hell, I'd grab my computer. it's got lots of porn" Or "I'd save the brother but I'd definately be gettin' some head on the way out".

The best one came from someone who turned out to be a really great brother. His responce was "I'd save the brother, actually wait, which brother is this, 'cause if it's Oven I'm gettin' the girl" (Oven is a slightly overweight brother we have who is really the man, but none of us could lift him).


I guess a scenario you could put is "a brother gets busted by the police walking back from a bar PLASTERED and accidentally hands them a fake ID. Do you keep quiete to keep your house out of trouble, or provide aide which you know will tip the not-so-friendly-to-greeks Police off to the fact he's a brother?" This is a Risk management issue but a common one.