Moral Dilemmas What would you do? Are there reasonable solutions? 1. You are a US citizen and you don’t have the money to pay for your daughter’s surgery. If she doesn’t get the surgery, she will die. One day, someone gives you a suitcase full of money, but tells you that if you spend the money, someone you don’t know will die. What do you do? 2. In the Amazon Forest, a man is arrested for illegal logging. He chopped down trees only to make more farmland to grow food for his family. Should the police send him to jail or let him help his starving family? 3. You have a big math test at your private class that could help you get into University. Your best friend sits next to you and since you are nervous, you decide to copy his work. Both of you have to report to the school for cheating. You can blame it on your friend or take the blame yourself, what will you do? 4. You are a psychologist. One of your clients confessed that he murdered someone and buried the body. If you go to the police, you break confidentiality, but if not he gets away with murder. What will you do? Moral Dilemmas What would you do? Are there reasonable solutions? 5. You work as a paramedic. You get a call to a car accident that involves a husband and wife and three children. On the way, you pass another accident which involves your pregnant wife. What do you do? 6. You’re flying in a hot air balloon when a bird makes a hole in it and it starts falling. It can now only support the weight of two people and there is a man, a woman, and a child. Who should jump out? 7. You are an inmate in concentration camp. A guard who likes hurting people wants to hang your son who tried to escape. He says if you don’t pull the trigger for him, he will not only kill your son, but also another innocent inmate. You know that he means what he says. What should you do?
