For those of you who didn't see it, it's 2+ hour long movie and (this part is a spoiler so if you didn't see it yet then stop here and don't read the rest) in the end all the actors die except Pvt. Norman (Logan Lerman), who survives when the badly wounded S/Sgt. Don (Brad Pitt) tells him to get out of the tank via the bottom emergency hatch & he lays there, pretending to be dead, while two hand grenades go off inside the tank, killing Sgt Don, who was the last alive person inside the tank. Even a young German SS trooper who sees the very scared Pvt. Norman with his torch underneath the tank decides not to report him and leaves him there. The young Private falls sleep down there and is awakened in the morning by the sound of nearby running horses, when he goes back into the tank through the emergency hatch and from there he is rescued by the U.S. Army medics and they tell him he's a HERO!
So, here's the moral dilemma and it's to do with the last sentence in the above paragraph. Let's say you're in the same situation and you've escaped death exactly the way Norman escaped it & you're seen as a hero. Knowing that you were scared to death & were saved by your wounded Sergent, by telling you to escape through an emergency hatch & hide down there, would you just keep quite & act like you're a real hero (and may be even cash in your notoriety and heroic status)? Or you would tell the truth that you did hide when death came knocking at the door & the real heroes are the ones who died?
What would you do?
How is that a moral dilemma? Very mild cadaan worries. "I am a survivor, not a hero, I was saved by the captain", simple.
Relax, ayeeyo. Did you see the movie in question horta? I used it as an example but if one is caught in similar situation (where all their colleagues are dead and there is no one to bear witness against their claims), most people will probably see it as a lifetime opportunity and will get as much as they can from their ill-gotten fame & make-believe bravery. And at the same time (at least with people who have the least amount of conscience and dignity) the knowledge that your whole post-heroic life & status are fraud & fake will always be at the back of your mind. And no, it's not an cadaan thing but a human thing (to cheat when opportunity rises, and somehow regret it later on, well unless one is a hardened criminal and doesn't have conscience at all).
