You are an inmate in a concentration camp.

A sadistic guard is about to hang your

son who tried to escape and wants
you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don't he will not
only kill your son but some other
innocent as well. You don't have any doubt that he means what he says. What should
you do?

1. Is there a dilemma present? If yes, what is it? Be specific with your answer.
The dilemma in the given scenario is that a parent has to make a choice of
killing his son for the sake of the
others or stall the death of his son but will invlove others.

2. Consequentialist
ACTION: I will pull the chair.

According to Oxford Languages, a concentration camp is a place where large

numbers of people, especially political
prisoners or members of presecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a
relatively small area with inadequate
facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

The framework that I am choosing is Consequentialist framework, why?

According
to Brown University, This theory aims on the future effects of the action that is
going to be made,
the moral agent needs to consider the people who are directly or indirectly
affected by the situation.
Consequentialist is the framework I see best for this kind of situation yes he is
my son but,
within analysing the situation, my son is already senteced to death by hanging, my
son will eventually die, its
just a matter of will I get the innocent people involved or not.

I will pull the chair my son is standing on so that the other won't get
involved. Because if
I chose to stall the death of my son, the blood and lives of the other innocent
people in the camp
will be at my hands and if they will be executed after I pulled the chair, their
blood will be on the guards
hands not mine. My stand is strengthed by the Committee for Human Rights in North
Korea which states that
"Once imprisoned, these North Koreans are subjected to torture, forced starvation,
punishment for practicing
religion, and execution." which means my son, the other inmates and even myself
(standing on the shoes of the father)
will die eventually its just a matter of time comes.

Brown University (n.d) A Framework for Making Ethical Decisions

https://www.brown.edu/academics/science-and-technology-studies/framework-making-
ethical-decisions#:~:text=In%20the%20Consequentialist%20framework%2C%20we,will
%20achieve%20the%20best%20consequences.

Committe for Human Rights in North Korea (n.d) Basic Facts about prison camps
https://www.nkhiddengulag.org/about-the-camps.html

3. Conscience and Moral Reasoning

CONSCIENCE
 Based on Vithoulkas G and Muresanu DF (2013) The concept of conscience as
commonly used in its moral sense +
is the inherent ability of every healthy human being to perceive what is right and
what is wrong and on the strength of
this perception to control monitor evaluate and execute their actions. Such as
values as right
or wrong good or evil, just or unjust and fair or unfair have existed throughtout
human history but are also shaped by an individuals cultural, politicial and
economic environment

Ethics.org describes conscience describes two things, it describes what a

person believes is right and how did that person
decide what is right in my case I given that the circumstances, I believe that
pulling the chair would be a right move to
the lives of the innocent people. The conscience of killing one soul has the lesser
evil than killing innocent
people and having their soul in your hands.

A study by Vithoulkas G and Muresanu DF (2013) states that Conscience is the

“highest authority”
and evaluates information to determine the quality of an action: good or evil, fair
or unfair and so on.

Ethics Explainer (2017) Ethics Explainer: Conscience

https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-conscience/#:~:text=Conscience%20describes
%20two%20things%20–%20what,not%20our%20actions%20are%20ethical.

Vithoulkas G & Muresanu DF (2013) Conscience and Consciousness: a definition

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
261000010_Conscience_and_Consciousness_a_definition

MORAL REASONING

An article made by Study.com states that Moral reasoning refers to the logical
process of determining whether
an action is right or wrong. With the consequentialist framework, Moral reasoning
is one of the keypoints that
helped me determine the right or wrong decision whether to pull the chair or not.
My reason is the same reasoning I
stated in the conscience keypoint, it's because it has the lesser casualties.

What is Moral Reasoning? - Definition & Examples. (2021, July 16). Retrieved from
https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-moral-reasoning-definition-examples.html.