GED107-B9

A3 Moral Dillemma & Assessment November 15, 2019

Question 11) You know the identity of someone who has committed a serious crime
resulting in a person being badly injured. Are you morally obliged to reveal their identity
to an appropriate authority so that they are dealt with justly?
Majority Answer: Yes
We are strongly obliged to reveal the person who caused injury to the authority
because he committed a serious crime and he had an negative impact on someone's
life. It was a moral obligation to reveal his identity so that event like that won't happen
again. Since he was able to do it once a precaution needs to be taken for it not to happen
again.

Question 12) You can save the lives of ten innocent people by killing one other innocent
person. Are you morally obliged to do so?
Majority Answer: No
The type of the situation was not explicitly said. It came to an agreement that the
life of one innocent person is to be traded for the lives of 10 others because 1) it didn’t
say that the 10 others would die if the one is saved and, 2) killing is simply immoral

Question 13) You see a charity advertisement in a newspaper about a person in severe
need in India/Australia. There is no state welfare available to this person, but you can
help them at little cost to yourself. You have good reason to believe that any help you
offer will make a difference. Are you morally obliged to help the person?
Majority Answer: Weakly Obliged.

The majority of our group all answered 'weakly obliged' . We agreed that even though
we can help that person in need, there is no consequence in not doing so. Hence, we
are weakly obliged in this situation. In addition, just because we can doesn’t mean we
should.
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A3 Moral Dillemma & Assessment November 15, 2019
Question 14) You are required to send a person a gift, and you have bought a bottle of
drink to send to them. However, you discover it is poison and if consumed will cause
blindness in the drinker. To replace it with a non-contaminated bottle will cost you
UK£10.00. You give the poisoned drink as a gift anyway. Are you morally responsible
for the blindness of the drinker?
Majority Answer: Strongly Responsible

We answered responsible; we may not know that the drinks have drug in it at first
that would make someone who drink it blind, but after knowing it, we have the choice to
either continue with the plan or to pay for another drink which is uncontaminated. I
would rather pay than to cause the sight of the person and ruin his life.

Question 15) A situation arises where you can either save your own child from death or
contact the emergency services in order to save the lives of ten other children. You
cannot do both, and there is no way to save everyone. Which course of action are you
morally obliged to follow?
Majority Answer: Save Your Own Child

We would save our own child instead of the ten other children since if we will put
ourselves in the shoe of a parent, it would be devastating to witness the death of our
own child. If we save the ten other children, there won't be any compensation for the
death of our own child and it results to abandoning him/her.

Question 16: You can save the lives of ten patients by cancelling one operation which
would have saved the life of a different patient. Are you morally obliged to do so?
Majority Answer: Yes

If we were in that position we will cancel the operation of the first client to save
the lives of 10 other patients. Because there are lots of lives that would be save and that
one person might not died instantly but be aided and saved by the other doctors. Why
don’t we save their lives without risking someone’s life? It was stated that cancelling the
operation does not mean that the person have to die for save someone. So the answer
is yes.