1. Your child is bullied quite frequently at school and the school/teachers are unwilling or unable to address the problem. Eventually, your child beats one of the bullies quite badly, resulting in the bully being hospitalized and the school threatening a long suspension. How would you react?
I'd bail my kid out of jail first, since no way that sort of fight doesn't get the police involved these days. It doesn't matter if the kid is in kindergarten, that's just the sad society we live in. Anyway, on one hand I agree with how the kid handled it. On the other, getting hit with charges usually means you did something wrong. So in the mess of that, I'd get a lawyer. I wouldn't be thrilled with the child, but I couldn't find much to be upset about.
2. You are on a federal jury, overseeing a white collar crime case. The defendant stole billions of dollars from pensions and siphoned off to his private accounts. You know people who were affected by this, though no one in your immediate family. The evidence presented by itself is however shaky, as the defendant's high priced lawyers got several key pieces of evidence tossed out. Do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty. I don't like it, but jury trials are set up in a specific way for a reason. Convicting beyond the scope of them is a bad, bad, bad thing. It leads to people (even moreso than now) convicting based on personal bias and opinions. This assumes that shaky evidence means reasonable doubt exists. If it's more borderline, I dunno.
3. You get your first job. One of your coworkers is extremely unpleasant and rude and indirectly lead to your termination from that job. Years later, you run into this same coworker doing a menial customer service job. They do not seem to remember you, and provide okay service to you. The business provides a website for a customer survey after the fact. If you take the survey and give the cashier a bad review, they could get in serious trouble. Do you take the survey? If so, what do you put down?
Nah, no need to be vindictive.
4. You cut off a delivery truck at a gas station. You go and get something from the gas station and head back to your car. The delivery person is still there and is upset. Do you say anything?
An apology's a good idea, so I'd do it. Unless I think the guy is about to take a swing at me, anyway. Then I do it besides my car if possible, or at least from a distance.
5. You accidently find out that one of your coworkers is using illegal drugs while at work. The person doesn't know that you know about the drug use. Management will require the person to take a drug test (Penalty of termination for failing it) if you tip them off about the drug use. Do you say anything to management? Your coworker?
I tell management. Someone who can't control their basic impulses and can't respect the law at work really shouldn't be there in the first place. They're a liability that needs help.
6. You accidently bump into another car while in a parking lot. There's no one around to witness the event, and there's no real visible damage to either car and you are in a hurry. How do you handle it? Do you wait for the person? Leave a note? Just leave?
Tough one. Either I leave a note or I go. I'd like to say I leave the note, but I really don't know.
7. You are unemployed and applying for a dream job, and get the interview. You are qualified for the job. The only issue is that you are short six months experience for the minimum requirement. Because you left the previous employer on good terms, they tell you that they'll lie and say you worked another year at the company than you did to help assure that you get the job. Do you accept this help?
No. As much as I want to, it's the sort of stupid lie that can come back and bite your ass down the line.
8.You place a modestly large order at a fast food place which happens to be very busy. They screw up your order and give you far more food than you paid for. You don't find this out till you're pulling out of the parking lot. Do you return it?
Judgment call. Probably not, since I know it'll most likely be tossed. I've have orders wrong both for and against my favor, so I prefer to roll with it.
9. An experiment is ran by doctors. They take 1000 victims in the late stages of Alzheimer's and perform medical experiments on them, including brain surgery. This is done of victims with no close living family, so there is no one to give consent. The entire experiment is hidden away so there are no legal or ethical challenges to the experiment. This ends up leading to a cure that halts the progress of the disease, and opens up other treatment options for brain diseases. What should happen to those doctors?
Uh, if they're not capable of giving consent and there's no relative to do so, wouldn't they have someone appointed who can give consent? The question's flawed on those grounds, as even if a few didn't have anyone who could give consent, it wouldn't be that hard to find plenty of test subjects who do.
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