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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dwpsg" data-source="post: 12089623" data-attributes="member: 381881">           Try this!     <img src="http://10.60.51.21/exchange/PrasannaG/Inbox/%20Decision%20Making...%20REALLY%20GOOD%20ONE...PLS%20READ.EML/1_multipart/ATT67402.gif?Security=3" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />             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 is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can     make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the     kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused     track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?         Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could     make................         ..     ...     ..                 scroll down     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .                     scroll down further     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .         Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice     only one child.     But, have you ever thought 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 where the danger was. This 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. 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.         The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try     to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing     on the operational track should have known very well that track was still     in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's     sirens. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die     because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover,     that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train     was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on     board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one     child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few     kids.         While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions 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 popular isn't always     right."         Everybody makes mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils.                </blockquote>

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