Poll Question:

Let's ask the hard question ...

Suppose you were required to give up your moral principles ... the basic tenets of what makes you yourself ... what you personally consider to be inarguably right and wrong ... the very fundamentals of your ethics.

If you refused to do this, you would be imprisoned for 10 years. You would pass those 10 years in unmitigatingly miserable conditions. Your family and friends would not come and visit you because they would have been convinced by your captors that you had actually broken those moral ethics in one of the worst ways imaginable (insert whatever you think that might be here) and that that is the reason for your imprisonment. They would feel shocked and deceived in you. As a way of getting over the pain of this knowledge, they would try their very best to forget you.

You, of course, would not be able to communicate with them. After this 10 year period of agony is over, you would be executed and buried without a funeral in an unmarked grave ... getting no opportunity to redress the unfairness done to you.

So ... which is more important? Which would YOU choose?

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