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Tasks: Moral Dilemma?

The following task is meant to explore your moral compass. Use the task to get to know your classmates a bit better. Work in groups and discuss what you would do in each situation. Be honest. Discuss as many of the dilemmas as you have time for, or pick the ten that you find most interesting.
Outline drawing: Three teens stand in a group, one stands apart with arms crossed looking unhappy.
Image: Amendor / CC BY-SA 4.0
  1. When starting high school, the cool kids suddenly want you to be part of their group, but they don't want your friend, whom they often laugh at and belittle. What do you do?
  2. Walking in a forest, you find a suitcase that contains 50 000 kroner. It is clear from the look of the suitcase that it has been in the forest for a few years. What do you do with the suitcase and the money?
  3. You and your best friend are in love with the same person, and that person has told you that they are in love with you too. What do you do?
  4. Someone you dislike is being bullied every day at school and online. You know who is doing it, and you know you can influence them to stop. What do you do?
  5. You find out that the new neighbour, who just moved in, was recently released from prison after serving 15 years for murder. Nobody else in the neighbourhood knows. What do you do?
  6. You are going to a concert with your best friend. You have been looking forward to it for a year. You stop at a café to get a snack before the concert and start chatting with an acquaintance who offers you a backstage pass to the gig. There is only one pass. What do you do?
  7. You participate in an amateur sports competition. You lose in the qualifying rounds, but the result was wrongly recorded, so you are still in the final. The person who actually won is too shy to set the record straight. What do you do?
  8. You realise that nobody really pays attention to what you do at work as long as you look busy. Does that change how you do your job?
  9. You are in a café when a group of thugs start shouting abuse at a gay couple. How do you react?
  10. Your mother's friend has made you promise to help out at a charity event she is organising. Then someone you have a crush on invites you to a party on the same night as the event. What do you do?
  11. You are offered a high-paying job for a cigarette company. Your job is to create a strategy to get young people to start smoking. What do you do?
  12. You find 200 kroner in an ATM machine. There is nobody else around. What do you do?
  13. You have become a very successful blogger and influencer, and you are starting to earn serious money. A children's rights organisation criticises you for being a bad role model for children. Do you change the way you present yourself and the topics you work on?
  14. You have come up with a cool new outdoor toy, which all the kids will want and that can make you millions. The only problem is that using just one of the toys produces thousands of small pieces of plastic. If millions of the toys are sold worldwide, it will be very bad for the environment. What do you do?
  15. By accident, you discover a back door into the school's computer system, and you get full access to changing your own and your fellow students' grades. What do you do?
  16. Your best friend tells you that they have just applied for their dream job. Listening to them speaking of the job makes it seem like fun. Do you apply as well?

After the discussion:

Write down the answers to the following questions.

  1. Did you learn anything new about your classmates?
  2. Were any of the answers surprising?
  3. What did you think of the dilemmas?
  4. Make one more dilemma for your classmates to discuss.
Written by: Tone Hesjedal.
Last revised date 02/14/2021