*Grin*. Here are your five questions. I wasn’t sure if it was OK to leave marks or not.
Order these principles by descending importance: Honesty (and/or sincerity), loyalty, kindness (and/or gentleness), fairness. Why do you rank them the way you do? (Feel free to add other principles in if you feel like it.)
You have to make a split-second decision (e.g., in some sort of accident) to save either a pleasant, promising high-school-aged student of yours or a close adult friend of yours. (Maybe they’re about to get hit by a truck, and they’re far enough apart that you can’t push both of them out of the way.) It’s clear to you that whoever you don’t save is going to die. Which one do you save?
On a slightly related note, do you make better decisions under pressure, or when you have a lot of time to think about them?
Imagine that either English culture or Japanese culture is going to be completely extinct 200 years from now. (No *people*, mind you, but the literature and art and film and customs and mores and cuisines.) Which loss would make you sadder, and why?
If you were offered complete artistic success, and the knowledge that your writing would be affecting people for centuries after you were dead, like Shakespeare’s or Goethe’s or Aeschylus’, in exchange for never having a life partnership that lasted, would you take it? Why or why not?
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