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they can be dealt with. Discussion There are many types of ethical dilemmas, ranging from small things like telling a "little white lie" about a friends choice of wardrobe ("Yes
those pants DO make you look fat"-who would say that?) to facing a decision as to whether or not to turn in a loved one whos doing drugs. Many ethical
dilemmas are problems "because of a certain kind of conflict between the rightness or wrongness of the actions and the goodness or badness of the consequences of the actions" (Ross,
2005). Examples of this kind of dilemma might be a lifeboat, where some people have to be thrown out so that the majority can survive; or the "fat man in
the cave (where the fact man, stuck in the entrance, must be killed to save the others" (Ross, 2005). While we normally consider murder the most heinous of crimes, in
both of these examples it seems to be necessary: one life is sacrificed so many more can be saved. This is what leads to the dilemma: "If doing what
is right produces something bad, or if doing what is wrong produces something good, the force of moral obligation may seem balanced by the reality of the good end" (Ross,
2005). Ross suggests that we can "have the satisfaction of being right, regardless of the damage done; or we can aim for what seems to be the best outcome, regardless
of what wrongs must be committed" (Ross, 2005). So, do we want to be right at any cost, or do we want a satisfactory outcome, no matter what we have
to do? In a classroom setting, clearly the student is not facing dilemmas of this magnitude, but moral choices are always troubling. One situation might be that a student
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