The class Activity we did today was on Moral Judgments. Making us but ourselves in this scenario, the teacher read about it being wartime and we were all hiding in the basement. With the enemy soldiers out outside a baby starts to cry aloud. If the baby doesn’t be quite everybody in the basement would end up being killed including the baby. Now the only way to keep everybody safe is to cover the baby’s mouth, but when you do; the baby will smother to death. Then she asks us will we do it. It was a slip decision due to strong emotional responses such as “a baby should never be killed” and a strong cognitive response such as “if you don’t kill the baby we will all die”. I was never in this situation until today, so I went with I will kill my baby because I don’t want anybody else killing my child (no Andrea Yates). With this activity I found that it’s difficult to make decisions when it comes to a moral dilemma.
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