Basic Critical Thinking

Cassandra Fernandez

2-9-14

Week 4

Individual Work 1

1. The Lifeboat: You are the captain, and your ship struck an iceberg and sank. There are thirty survivors, but they are crowded into a lifeboat designed to hold just seven. With the weather stormy and getting worse, it is obvious that many of the passengers will have to be thrown out of the lifeboat, or it will sink and everyone will drown. Will you have people thrown over the side? If so, on what basis will you decide who will go? Age? Health? Strength? Gender? Size?

The Lifeboat involves a conflict between these moral beliefs:

• It is wrong to take any innocent life.

• It is right to save some lives rather than threaten all the lives on board.

In this situation i made decision first i decided to not thrown any person but if the condition with out of control than i throw peoples first who have more strength, health, size, gender, than age. Because the strengthen and healthy peoples may have chance to save their life. Than save the life of females and aged peoples b/c they are weak as compare to males and younger peoples.

2 .The Mad Bomber: You are a police lieutenant heading an investigation of a series of bombings that have resulted in extensive damage, injuries, and deaths. Your big break comes when you capture the person who you are certain is the so- called mad bomber. However, he tells you that he has placed a number of devices in public locations and that they will explode, at the cost of many innocent lives and injuries. You believe that your only chance of extracting the locations of these bombs is to torture this person until he tells. If you decide to do this, both your career and the legal case against the mad bomber will be placed in jeopardy. What do you do?

The Mad Bomber involves a conflict between these moral beliefs:

• It is wrong to harm a human being.

• It is right to save the lives of many innocent people.

In this situation I would...