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Directions: Read the moral dilemmas carefully and give what is asked. (4 items x 10 points)

1. The Robin Hood Robber: You witness a man rob a bank, but instead of keeping the money for
himself, he donates it to a local orphanage. You know that this orphanage has been struggling for
funding, and the money will allow the children to receive proper food, clothing, and medical care.
If you report the crime, the money will be taken away from the orphanage and given back to the
bank.

What should you do?

2. The Unfaithful Wife: You are an emergency worker that has just been called to the scene of an
accident. When you arrive, you see that the car belongs to your wife. Fearing the worst, you rush
over, only to see that she is trapped in her car with the another man whom she’s been having an
affair.

You reel back in shock, devastated by what you have just found out. As you step back, the wreck in
front of you comes into focus. You see your wife is seriously hurt and she needs attention straight
away. Even if she gets immediate attention, there’s a very high chance she’ll die. You look at the
seat next to her and see her lover. He’s bleeding heavily from a wound in the neck, and you need
to stem the flow of the blood immediately.

If you attend to your wife, her lover will bleed to death, and you may not be able to save her
anyway. If you work on the man, you can save his life, but your wife will definitely die. What
should you do?

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 3. The Sick Patients: You are a skilled doctor with five (5) patients who all need different organ
transplants. There are currently no organs available to give them, and if they don’t get their
transplants soon, they will all die. You have a sixth patient, who is dying of an incurable disease. At
the moment, you are giving him medicine to ease his pain and prolong his life. He is a compatible
organ donor for your five (5) other patients, but the medicine he is taking will keep him alive just a
day longer than they have left. If you were to stop giving him medicine, he would die before them
in a very painful way, but you would then be able to use his organs to save the other five (5). What
should you do?

4. The Plagiarized Report: You are an English teacher at a high school. One of your students is a very
bright and gifted girl, whom you have always enjoyed teaching. She has always achieved high
grades throughout her school years, and is now in her final year and getting ready to graduate.
Unfortunately, she has been very ill this term, and missed several weeks of schooling. She has just
turned in a report which is worth 40% of her final grade, but you realize that she did not write it
herself. She has copied a report found online and tried to pass it off as her own work.

If you report her plagiarization to the school authorities, it will be entered on her permanent
record, making her ineligible to attend the prestigious university that she has dreamed of
attending. If you refuse to accept the report, her final mark will be very poor and may harm her
chances of being chosen for the university. If you mark the paper as though you believed it was her
own work, she will do very well, and stand every chance of getting her desired university.

What should you do?

Rubric for scoring:

Criteria Performance Indicators Points
Content Provided pieces of evidence, supporting details, and factual scenarios 6
Grammar Used correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization 1
Organization of Expressed the points in clear and logical arrangement of ideas in the
2
ideas paragraph
Format Adhered to the required style/appearance 1
Total 10