compromising one's ethical principles for personal advantage theme
Someone must choose between what they believe is right on the one hand, and what would profit them personally on the other.
29 total · 5 choice · 15 major · 9 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp6x38 | choice | The story culminated with Rudy choosing to send his old friend, Marc, down the proverbial river to advance his own political career. |
| blackmirror6x04 | choice | A recurring point of the story was that paparazzi's profit from harassing famous people, sometimes to the point of death (like Princess Dianna). Bo was perpetually struggling with the ethics of the profession. Yet after living in poverty for a while she clearly turned to the dark side: In the end she knowingly handed Mazey Day a gun and got her camera ready to photograph Mazey's impending suicide. The paparazzi Bo was snapping photos of celebrities in private settings. At the opening of the story, she scored some photos of the celebrity Justin Camley leaving a motel room together with a "male buddy". Justin took his own life after the scandalous photos were published. |
| movie: From Here to Eternity (1953) | choice | A central drama revolves around Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt's refusal to participate in the boxing team despite the many perks that doing so would entail, and despite the immense bullying he was subjected to in order to persuade him. |
| movie: Paths of Glory (1957) | choice | various but prominently General Mireau choose advantage, and Colonel Dax stuck with his principles |
| pkded1x02 | choice | Should Brian take Irma's money and offer her a comforting lie? |
| ahh2x18 | major | The plot turned on a point of contention between John and Doc: Should John hasten the surely dying inmate along to the afterlife to ensure his own escape, or wait for nature to take its course? In the event, John did not intervene. The mere fact that he had pondered doing so, however, lead Doc to mistrust him and to drink heavily. This in turn lead to Doc's own death, which foiled John's plans and presumably caused him to die of slow asphyxiation buried alive at the conclusion of the story. |
| ahp2x36 | major | Sam struggle with the decision of whether to betray his father for £50 that Sam thought he sorely needed to start his life over (or something). |
| ahp6x09 | major | Though revealed to have been a no-brainer for Larry in the end, the story seemingly hinged on the question of whether Larry should take advantage of, and steal from, his late and revered father's dignified old friend. |
| ahp7x26 | major | Central to this story was the following dilemma, which Boots found troubling but Arthur had little problem getting his head around: should they risk Soldier's life and well being by testing a new drug on him, and then to increase the dose dangerously, in order to profit from the games he'd win? |
| ahp7x37 | major | Central to the story was Judy's reluctant choice to go ever further in her mock-romance with Kenneth, in order to get more money and goodies out of him. |