The quiz question for my Intro to Philosophy sections today Thursday November 1 concerned an imaginary dilemma (based on a real case). The situation is that you are coming home from work in traffic on a dark night in Detroit (some students are familiar with the place where this happened) and the traffic is so bad everyone is just sitting in their cars stuck three lanes across. There is a beautiful young woman in the car next to you. Behind her is a car with three ugly guys who are upset with her. They get out of their car and start pounding on her car trying to get at her. You are convinced that if they can get the car open they will kill her. 1st question: what is your moral obligation - to interfere or not? 2nd question: what do you imagine you might really do in such a situation? (In the real case no one helped her and she ran for her life, jumping off a bridge to get away from them and she drowned in the river.) For my Truth Beauty Goodness class the question was, did you think Steven Pinker's argument was persuasive? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk