Thursday, April 17, 2008

Decison Making. Try and see you are RIGHT or WRONG??

Hello guys, I had read a story about The Train and Childrens two years ago, if not mistaken. The story is quite interesting and give us really insight into Decision Making. So,I would like to share with you here. The story as below:


A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track. The train came, and you were just beside the track interchange. It was not possible to stop the train. What you could only do was changed the train to the disused track and saved most of the kids. However, this action mean that the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way which it suppose be????


Lets take a pause to think what kind of decision you could make……..


Analyse the situation………


Think and reflect……….


Decide your answer……….


I believe most of you will choose to divert the course of train and sacrifice only one child in order to save most of the children. It is rational, morally and emotionally.


BUT


Have you ever though that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place. Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play at the danger place.


Lessons:

The kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. Like the child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case, he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.


GOOD and PROPER Choice:

Not to change the course of the train because the kids who playing on the operational track should have known very well that the track was still in use, and they should have run away if they heard the train’s sirens. If the tain was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track. Moreover, the track was not in use probably because it was not safe. So, lives of all passengers on board was at stake if the train was diverted to the disused track. And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up with sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.


End of story…….

Some sharings with you guys. While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisons that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.

“Remember that what’s right isn’t always popular….. and what’s pupular isn’t always right. ”
So, don’t be sad if you making wrong decison caused :


Everybody makes mistake, that’s why they put erasers on pencils.



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1 Comments:

xiAn said...

nice passage... (^.^)b
"belly" good..
:D

-saXon-