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    This lesson discusses moral dilemmas and different levels of moral dilemmas. It provides three examples of moral dilemmas: [1] A Catholic school torn between helping the poor through low tuition and paying teachers well; [2] A man who must decide whether to steal a drug to save his dying wife or respect the chemist's property rights; [3] A principal who faces passive parents and community involvement versus accomplishing goals on time. The key points are that moral dilemmas exist at the individual, organizational, and structural levels and involve difficult choices between two moral options, with no unambiguously right answer.

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    This lesson discusses moral dilemmas and different levels of moral dilemmas. It provides three examples of moral dilemmas: [1] A Catholic school torn between helping the poor through low tuition and paying teachers well; [2] A man who must decide whether to steal a drug to save his dying wife or respect the chemist's property rights; [3] A principal who faces passive parents and community involvement versus accomplishing goals on time. The key points are that moral dilemmas exist at the individual, organizational, and structural levels and involve difficult choices between two moral options, with no unambiguously right answer.

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    This lesson discusses moral dilemmas and different levels of moral dilemmas. It provides three examples of moral dilemmas: [1] A Catholic school torn between helping the poor through low tuition and paying teachers well; [2] A man who must decide whether to steal a drug to save his dying wife or respect the chemist's property rights; [3] A principal who faces passive parents and community involvement versus accomplishing goals on time. The key points are that moral dilemmas exist at the individual, organizational, and structural levels and involve difficult choices between two moral options, with no unambiguously right answer.

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    LESSON 3

    MORAL DILEMMAS

    Intended Learning
    Outcomes:

    Explain moral dilemma as a moral
    dilemma as a moral experience
    Distinguish between a moral dilemma
    and a false dilemma
    ACTIVITY

    Read “The Pregnant Lady and
    the Dynamite”, then answer the
    questions given.
    The Pregnant Lady and the
    Dynamite

    A pregnant woman leading a group of five people
    out of a cave on a coast is stuck in the mouth of that
    cave. In a short time, high tide will be upon them
    and unless she is unstuck, they will all be drowned
    except the woman whose heads is out of the cave.
    Fortunately (or unfornutely), someone has with him
    a stick of dynamite. There seems no way to get the
    pregnant woman loose without using the dynamite
    which will inevitably kill her, but if they do not use
    it everyone else will drown. What should they do?
    ANALYSIS

    What would you do if you were one of the
    men?
    Explain why you decided to act that way?
     The situation or the experience you went
    through is a moral dilemma. What then is a
    moral dilemma?
     Is finding yourself in a moral dilemma, a
    moral experience? Why or why not?
    KEY TAKEAWAYS

     A moral dilemma is a ”decision making
    problem between two possible moral
    imperatives, neither of which is
    unambiguously acceptable or preferable”.
     A moral dilemma is a situation where a
    person has the moral obligation to choose
    between two options both based on moral
    standards, but he/she cannot choose both,
    and choosing one means violating the other.
    KEY TAKEAWAYS

     In a moral dilemma, one is caught between
    two options. It is a ”damn-if-you- do and
    damn-if you don’t situation. One is in a
    deadlock.
     False dilemma are situations where the
    decision-maker has a moral duty to do one
    thing, but is tempted or under pressure to do
    something else. A false dilemma is a choice
    between right or and a wrong unlike moral
    dilemma where both choices are wrong.
    LESSON 4

    THE THREE
     LEVELS
    OF
    MORAL DILEMMAS
    Intended Learning
    Outcome

     Illustrate the three levels of
    moral dilemma
    ACTIVITY
    READ the following dilemmas:

    DILEMMA 1

    The mission of Catholic School A is to serve


    the poor by giving quality education. It is a
    torn between the obligation to charge low
    tuition to help the poor and to pay better
    salaries to keep quality teachers.
    ACTIVITY

    DILEMMA 2

    Heinz’s wife was dying from a particular type of


    cancer. Doctors said a new drug might save her. The
    drug had been discovered by a local chemist, and the
    Heinz tried desperately to buy some, but the chemist
    was charging ten times the money it cost to make a
    drug, and this was much more than the Heinz could
    afford.
    ACTIVITY

    DILEMMA 2

    Heinz could only raise half the money, even


    after help from family and friends. He
    explained to the chemist that his wife was
    dying and asked if he could have the drug
    cheaper or pay the rest of the money later.
    ACTIVITY

    DILEMMA 2

    The chemist refused, saying that he had


    discovered the drug and was going to make
    money from it. The husband was desperate to
    save his wife, so later that night he broke into
    the chemist’s laboratory and stole the drug.
    ACTIVITY

    DILEMMA 3
    A principal ought to welcome and encourage parents
    and community participation to school affairs. Based
    on her experience, parents and community are
    passive and so the principal always ends up deciding
    and doing things just the same. She is obliged to
    observe parents and community participation which
    do not give any input at all at the same time she is
    obliged to accomplish things on time.
    ANALYSIS

     Among the 3 dilemmas, which is an
    example of an Individual dilemma?
    Organizational dilemma?
    Structural dilemma?
     How do the 3 dilemmas differ?
    KEY TAKEAWAYS

     Moral dilemmas comes in three levels – individual,
    organizational or structural.
     Individual dilemmas concern dilemmas that
    individual persons face.
     Organizational dilemmas refer to dilemmas between
    organizational benefits versus individual member’s
    welfare.
     Structural dilemmas concern dilemmas faced by
    groups or individuals as a result of structural
    relationships.
    KEY TAKEAWAYS

     A world organizations like the United Nations is
    usually faced with this dilemma – sovereignty of
    nations versus worlds order.
     I f confronted with a moral dilemma, choose the
    greater good and lesser evil or do only what you can
    where you are (Fletcher) or love and do you will
    (St. Augustine). The extent of one’s obligation and
    responsibility is the extent of one’s ability and the
    measure of the “extent” is one’s capacity for love.

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