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Right or Wrong?
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To consider what course of action is right and
why
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To be able to explain why you think a certain
action is right
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To consider whether a religious person would
agree
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For each of these scenarios consider what
you think the right action would be, why?
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Write whether you think a religious person
would agree with you and why
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You turn on your television one night to find that you
have started getting the premium sky package
(including sky sports) instead of basic channels.
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Do you call the company and ask them to take it off
or do start popping popcorn and watch the
Manchester derby?
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Our opinion
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Religious Person
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You and a friend are planning to go out and see a
movie on a Friday night. As you’re getting ready to
leave, another friend calls and asks what you’re doing
that night. You know that the friend you’re talking to
on the phone sometimes can be jealous when you go
out with other people and they are not friends at all!
Do you tell them the truth or
make something up?
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Our opinion
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Religious Person
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A runaway train is hurtling down a track. In its
path are five people who will definitely be
killed unless you, a bystander, flip a switch
which will divert it on to another track, where
it will kill one person.
Should you flip the
switch?
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Our opinion
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Religious Person
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You are stranded with twenty people on a lifeboat
that is intended to hold only seven. It is definitely
going to sink, drowning everyone inside it.
• No one offers to stay off the
boat. It occurs to you that
you can save some of the
people in the lifeboat by
throwing all but the
strongest rowers overboard.
Should you forcibly do this?
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Our opinion
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Religious Person
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Your friend is suffering from a horrible
disease that has put her in constant and
permanent pain and agony. Finally, one day,
she decides that she really wants to die.
However, her condition is such that she
cannot die on her own. She is begging and
pleading with you to help her commit
suicide. This would, of course, be illegal.
What would you do?
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Our opinion
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Religious Person
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You are 16, you have a
boyfriend and have
recently started having
sex. Despite using
protection you have
found yourself pregnant.
Do you think you should
keep the baby or have an
abortion?
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Our opinion
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Religious Person
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You are an inmate, imprisoned in a
concentration camp. A guard tells you that
you must choose one of your two children for
him to take to the gas chamber. If you choose
neither, he will take them both. What would
you do?
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Our opinion
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Religious Person
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Try to think of your own Moral Scenario that
people may have to face today
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Explain whether you think having a religion
helps people decide what the right thing to
do is