Towards Right Action Exploring Ethics

An introduction into Ethics. Can be used for many areas. Contains portions that students can participate.

1. Towards Right Action: Exploring Ethics Defining Ethics: HZT4U

2. Learning Goals We Will Identify What Ethics Are Examine The Role Of Ethics In Our Daily Lives Explore The Source Systems From Which We Derive Our Personal Ethics

3. To Do The Right Thing I You Are Waiting With A Few Other People To Board A Bus. The Bus Pulls Up And Before You Can Board, The Drive Gets Out And Goes Into Starbucks To Get A Coffee. You Are The Last To Get On The Bus. Do You Pay?

4. To Do The Right Thing II While Working On A Test Question, You Notice The Person Next To You Has A Different Answer. When You Check Your Work, You Realize That You Have Made A. Mistake And Change Your Answer. Do You Cheat

5. To Do The Right Thing III You Are On A Cruise Ship That Catches Fire & Needs To Be Abandoned. The Lifeboats Are Carrying Way More People Than They Should. They Are Sitting Dangerously Low In The Water & Water Gets In When The Seas Gets Rough. A Group Of Older People Are In The Water & Ask You To Throw Them A Rope So They Can Come Aboard. It Seems The Boat Will Start To Sink If You Take On More People. Do You Throw Them The Rope? 

6. To Do The Right Thing IV Which Of The Following Would You Consider Acceptable Grounds For Killing An Animal? What Isn't Acceptable? Write Down What You Consider Acceptable & Not Acceptable. Explain Why You Think So

7. To Do The Right Thing IV Cont. Its Noise Bothers You At Night It Is Killing Your Sheep You Enjoy The Taste Of Its Meat You Enjoy Seeing It Squirm It Is Destroying Your Vegetable Garden You Just Don't Like Them An Endangered Animal (Condor) Keeps Killing Your Pets  You Enjoy Hunting

8. Ethical Dilemmas- What Would You Do? The Above Slides Are Examples Of Ethical Dilemmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_J4rAf2Qjg

9. What Are Ethics?** In A Nutshell, 'Ethics' Are About 'Right Action' Every Day, We Are Faced We Are Faced With Opportunities To Do Things That We Consider To Be 'Right', 'Just', And 'Good'- Situations Which Allow Us To Affirm The Values That We Hold Dear We Also Have The Same Opportunities To Do Things That Violate Those Values

10. What Are Ethics? Cont.  So How Do We Make Decisions- How Do We Know Which Ones Are The 'Good' Ones? How Do We Even Define What 'Good' And 'Right' Means? Is It An Objective, Inherent Quality, Or Is It Defined By Context? This Is The Problem That Lies With Defining Ethics- Who Makes The Rules That Determine 'Right' Action From 'Wrong' Action?

11. The Rules By Which We Live ** As We Discovered In Our Hypotheticals, We Often Make Decisions That Are Based On An Understanding That There Are Certain 'Rules' That Govern The Way We Act- These Rules Are Founded On Ethics

12. The Rules By Which We Live Cont.**  These Can Be Formal Rules, Such As Laws, Which Collectively Reflect Beliefs As To What Actions Should Or Shouldn't Be Permitted Or They Can Be Informal Rules, Such As Social Conventions That We Use To Smooth Out Interactions Between People

13. The Rules By Which We Live Cont.** These Rules Govern Our Day-To-Day Actions. Even If An Outside Force Is Watching You, We Internally Debate Our Options Before Acting.  If We Decide Not To Follow The Rules, We Tend To Suffer Guilt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbwLC3Yr8vA

14. DnD Alignments https://images.app.goo.gl/8rYFiBT4Sz9Yw3q69   You Will Each Take A Survey To Explore What Alignment You Are  https://easydamus.com/alignmenttest.html Write Down What Alignment You Are. Do You Agree With The Results? Do You Think You Are Another Alignment?