ETH

BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

SOUTH EAST-ASIA INSTITUTE OF TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY
LEARNING MODULE FOR 2ND SEMESTER SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021

STUDENT’S NAME: STRAND&SECTION:

GRADE 12 ETH: BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Activity – 20points

Watch the Film Circle (2015) Please see the reference link part of this lesson: how do we value one another and
how do we make decisions?

Movie Title : Circle

Main Characters:
Eric katie and pregnant woman
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Analysis:
The movie Circle on Netflix is a 2015 psychological thriller film. The film is about a Alien invasion. Aliens are
going and randomly selecting 50 people and putting them in a room and watch how the humans kill themselves.
The plot presents a group of 50 people who awaken inside a circular room, not knowing how they got there.
Circle revolves around a group of people who wake up in a darkened room. They realise that if one of them try
to escape or leave the room they will be killed.The film focuses on how these people will go about figuring what
it takes to survive. It was soon realise by the group that they can control which person is selected next to die. At
the end of the film, three people are left, Eric, a pregnant woman and a child girl named Katie. Eric plots a plan
and convinces Katie that the pregnant woman should live as she is carrying another life within her. He keep
telling Katie that they both should volunteer to sacrifice their lives for the pregnant lady. After convincing katie,
Katie believe Eric and agree to step out. While the pregnant woman does not oppose this because she assume
that her live is saved. As soon as katie step out she immediately got killed by the machine. In the end eric is the
only one that survive, though eric sees the other survivor it was mostly children and pregnant woman. In my
opinion, the first Majority right that the film is showing is how humans create rules that divide themselves. And
as we prefer to be in a majority group. These rules are varied in nature ranging from race, to education, to jobs,
to sexual orientation, to age, and to faith. Next is the perception of good and bad, this second theme is about
how human morals are built to judge people based on the rules we’ve come up for ourselves. Though Good and
Bad, Right and Wrong are subjective, we tend to objectify them. While one group sets their morals rigidly in
stone, the other twists them around based on convenience.

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SOUTH EAST-ASIA INSTITUTE OF TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY
LEARNING MODULE FOR 2ND SEMESTER SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021

STUDENT’S NAME: STRAND&SECTION:

GRADE 12 ETH: BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Quiz / Evaluation 10points

Ethics is about choices which matter, and choices which matter are dilemmas. The Greek word dilemma means
“double proposition” or “two horns.” In the horns of dilemma, there is a problem offering two possibilities,
neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.

To sharpen your ethical skills, analyze and evaluate the two dilemmas given below:

1. Dilemma 1: The Lifeboat

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SOUTH EAST-ASIA INSTITUTE OF TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY
LEARNING MODULE FOR 2ND SEMESTER SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021

STUDENT’S NAME: STRAND&SECTION:

GRADE 12 ETH: BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
The battleship LuzViMin was torpedoed in the engine room, and began to sink rapidly. ‘Abandon ship!’ shouts
Captain Ditatakbo. But few of the lifeboats are intact. One boat, desperately overload, manages to struggle
away from the sinking vessel, Ditatakbo at the prow. The cold, grey waters of the Pacific around it are filled
with screaming, desperate voices, begging to be saved.

But faced with the grim knowledge of the danger of capsizing the little boat, endangering the lives of those
already on board, should any more sailors be picked up and rescued?
- As the situation says that there are few lifeboats. My answer will be yes more sailors can be rescued. If
suppose there are no lifeboats that can be use my answer will never change it will still be a yes, since sailors
can swim. Though the water is cold they can swim to some extent and since the boat crash they can find
something to grab on to help them float. And then others can jump into the water and swim. I mean to say
that they can switch between swimming and staying on boat. Keeping the maximum number of people alive
by rotating time in the lifeboat. They can agree to take their turn and jump back in the water and it would
have to be possible to get people in and out of the water without danger.

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2. Dilemma 2: To Obey or Not to Obey

Ditatakbo mutters several words understood only by him, and then in a bark, orders ‘no stopping’. Others in
the boat mutter too, in different Philippine dialects – about ‘bleeding murderer’, ‘pitiless bastard’ and even

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SOUTH EAST-ASIA INSTITUTE OF TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY
LEARNING MODULE FOR 2ND SEMESTER SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021

STUDENT’S NAME: STRAND&SECTION:

GRADE 12 ETH: BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
about ‘Captains ought to go down with their boats’ but all are accustomed to obeying. Until one of the sailors
in the water struggles up to the side of the boat, revealing himself to be Bruce, the cabin steward, who
manages to get two frozen hands onto the ship’s gunnels, and with a last desperate, heroic effort begins to
haul himself in, tipping the boat alarmingly as he does so.
“Knock him back in!” shouts Captain Ditatakbo, from the rear of the boat, to Danny, the cook, who is nearest
(Danny and Bruce are best of friends, they used to play pusoy during their free time in the boat, and Bruce is the
godfather of Danny’s only son, Elmer).

Should Danny obey? Explain your answer.

Danny should not obey by knocking Bruce out of the boat, they can still help Bruce out by not tipping the boat.
They can help him by letting him hold the side of the boat, or grab his hands while his holding the side of the
boat. Or they can throw things inside the boat that isn’t need anymore to make the boat lightly light.
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