Directions: Read the moral dilemmas carefully and give what is asked.

(4 items x 10 points)

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?

-The man had good intentions, but he may have gone about them incorrectly. If he wanted to
donate to the organization, he might have provided money personally or urged others to do so, or
he could have donated gently worn clothing. He didn't need to rob to raise funds for the
orphanage. The robber was completely unaware of whom he was robbing. What if he was
robbing someone else who desperately needed the money as well? What if the man stole money
from a hospital or from people who needed money for tuition? That is why I will turn the man
over to the cops. 

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 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?

-If I could only save one of them, I would choose the person who had the best chance of survival.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I arrived on the scene of the accident as an emergency worker. A
professional worker will set aside his personal issues and focus on his work. So, despite the fact
that she's my wife, I can't risk attending to her since I believe she's less likely to be rescued than
her lover. It may be difficult, but given the circumstances, it is my responsibility to preserve
lives, and if I can't save both of them, at least one of them.

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?

-The doctor's goal is to assist patients and families comprehend the alternatives available to
them, as well as the potential advantages and drawbacks. In this case, the doctor should not
decide to discontinue delivering the medicine to the sixth patient without his agreement. That is
both professionally and ethically incorrect, and every doctor understands it. The doctor must
communicate with his sixth patient as well as the remaining five people who may be saved by his
organs. If the sixth patient is unable to communicate or make choices for himself, the doctor will
request that the guardian do so on his behalf. The point here is that, in order to respect the rights
of his sixth patient, the doctor should give the choice to him or his guardian. In reality, when
individuals confront growing injuries, debilitating treatments, and fatal diagnoses, most (not all,
but most) may not desire the most drastic therapies, especially in the short term. They would
fairly select natural death, with treatment priority centered on comfort. By that point, the doctor
has no power to refuse medication to the sixth patient unless he or his guardian requests it.

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?

-If I were the instructor, I would look at the paper, but I would not give it the best possible grade.
Given her circumstances, I'm going to accept her paper. And, given that this is her first time
submitting plagiarized work, she may have decided to plagiarize due to her condition. Copying,
however, is plagiarism, regardless of the justification. I believe that if she actually is a good
student, a single bad mark won't affect her all that much. This will serve as a warning to her,
which will help her in college. This will demonstrate that the teacher is fair and just. And she
will see the importance of not plagiarizing the work of others.