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Originally Posted by athenian200
1. Someone you knew for a long time dies, and you get a large inheritance. Internally, despite what you express to others, are you pondering about the goals/understanding you can achieve with the money, or are you sad that they died?
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Both.
Although I can become consciously appalled at myself (because I know it's considered shallow) for how easy the first part is for me... the logical opportunism of a moment is not lost on me, I simply force myself to interact better with others than that.
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2. A work of art that that wasn't useful or worth much monitarily, and wasn't beautiful to anyone is destroyed. Does this affect you?
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How can a work of art not be beautiful to SOMEONE? Isn't that what art is?
If it's something that is not beautiful (is not evocative), and is not worth anything, and isn't even useful, I don't really care if it's destroyed. It's like a basket of plain crepe paper.
If I tweak the parameters of your question a little, though: If something is beautiful to someone OR I can see that considerable skill was necessary to create it (regardless of my personal feelings), then I do feel a bit of loss because something unique is gone forever. I try to preserve things that are unique.
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3. You see a person you used to know really well a few years ago but lost touch with on the side of the road in rags, begging for money. You are a millionaire. Somehow, you know that no one will ever know if you helped this person or not, and that they will never be able to return the favor. They pleadingly ask you for some money. Do you give them anything?
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There's a possibility I would give them something, regardless of their attitudes.
However, it would probably depend on how they plead. If I feel like they are demanding money from me just because I have it, or that they are in the mess they're in because they continuously squandered past monies and I can't perceive that they will do any better THIS time around, I probably would not give them money.
Because they are in dire straits and/or because I knew them in the past, thought, I would be inclined to help them in whatever way I thought was going to benefit them most... but this might not involve money.
The fact that no one knows whether I would help or not has no real bearing on my reaction.