QUIZ 3 ETHICS

Activity:

Consider. There is a deadly outbreak of an airborne disease in your city. The outbreak
will happen so quickly that you cannot receive help from anyone outside your city. In order to
survive, you need to use respirator to help you breathe. If you do not have a respirator, you will
die. There are only enough respirators to save 10% of population. Who should get to use a
respirator? How should you decide? First make a list of all the possible ways we could decide.
Then from among your choices, decide how would you ration those resources. 

Why is your choice the best course of action? What are the limitations or problems that arise
from your choice?

Save the children. 

Save the elderly.

Save those who will die.

Save the children. 

If there is an epidemic in our city and only 10% of the population is able to live using

respirators, in such a situation, we realize that even if we all want to live, we won't be able to.

Then we must determine whether or not to preserve the children, since they are our future. As a

result, we should employ such respirators to rescue the future. We believed that children

deserved to live for their future generation. Children are vulnerable and catch the deadly

outbreak more easily than adults. Moreover, in situations like this we know that both children
and elderly can easily get the deadly virus, however, children have a stronger immune system

than elders that is why we chose the children to be prioritized for the respirators. Even though it

is inconsiderate if we aren't going to prioritize the elderly, we should be thinking rationally in

these situations where we also focus on the reproduction of human beings so that this deadly

disease won’t wipe out the whole human population. They have enough time to live. They

contribute equally to the nation's development and progress. Furthermore, they work tirelessly

for the benefit of society and the country. Children are also the only way for mankind to survive

on earth. We should have something worthwhile to live for. We can place the children in a

facility that is far enough away from the source of the airborne disease to prevent outside air

from entering. Children who are healthy enough to survive and children who can understand

everything are the ones we can let survive. Let them use the respirators with the assistance of the

specialist. We should also let enough specialists find it in order to protect the children until the

disease will finally vanish.