Name: Reyes, Jovilyn E.

BSIT 601
01 Activity 1
Instructions
Directions: Read the moral dilemmas carefully and give what is asked. (4 items x 10 points)
The Robin Hood Robber: You witness a man rob a bank, but instead of keeping the money for
himself, he donates it to a local orphanage. You know that this orphanage has been struggling for
funding, and the money will allow the children to receive proper food, clothing, and medical care.
If you report the crime, the money will be taken away from the orphanage and given back to the
bank.
What should you do?
I'm going to give the man to the police. Robbery should not be regarded as a moral act, whatever
the circumstances. I think the man had good intentions, but he might have gone about them in a
wrong way. If he wanted to give to the charity, he could have given them his own money or asked
other people to do so. If he really wanted to help, money is not always the answer. I believe there
is another way we can offer help without having the money. We can donate our pre-loved clothes,
offer our harvests such as food and crops, or perhaps help to teach children or help clean the
orphanage. Clearly, he doesn’t have to go so far as to rob a bank just to help others.

The Unfaithful Wife: You are an emergency worker that has just been called to the scene of an
accident. When you arrive, you see that the car belongs to your wife. Fearing the worst, you rush
over, only to see that she is trapped in her car with another man whom she’s been having an
affair.
You reel back in shock, devastated by what you have just found out. As you step back, the wreck
in front of you comes into focus. You see your wife is seriously hurt and she needs attention
straight away. Even if she gets immediate attention, there’s a very high chance she’ll die. You
look at the seat next to her and see her lover. He’s bleeding heavily from a wound in the neck,
and you need to stem the flow of the blood immediately.
If you attend to your wife, her lover will bleed to death, and you may not be able to save her
anyway. If you work on the man, you can save his life, but your wife will definitely die. What should
you do?
First, I found it very odd to send just one emergency worker to the scene of the accident. At least
he's supposed to have a partner to help him out. But anyway, if I only had to rescue one of them,
I would attend to the person who has the greatest chance of being saved. I know it may sound
like a cliché, but I came to the scene of the accident as an emergency worker. A professional
worker is going to put aside his personal problems and do his job. So even though she's my wife,
I can't risk attending her thinking that she's less likely to be saved than her lover. It may be difficult,
but given the circumstances, it's my job to rescue lives, and if I can't save both of them, then at
least I can save one of them.
The Sick Patients: You are a skilled doctor with five (5) patients who all need different organ
transplants. There are currently no organs available to give them, and if they don’t get their
transplants soon, they will all die. You have a sixth patient, who is dying of an incurable disease.
At the moment, you are giving him medicine to ease his pain and prolong his life. He is a
compatible organ donor for your five (5) other patients, but the medicine he is taking will keep him
alive just a day longer than they have left.

If you were to stop giving him medicine, he would die before them in a very painful way, but you
would then be able to use his organs to save the other five (5). What should you do?
Medical decision-making can be quite difficult. The doctor's job, and indeed his sacred duty, is to
help patients and families understand not only the options presented, but also their likely benefits
and burdens in the context of their current medical condition, their prognosis and their lifelong
values and objectives. In this situation, the doctor should not decide to stop giving the sixth patient
the medicine without his consent. That's professionally and ethically wrong, and every doctor
knows that.
Next, the doctor has to speak to his sixth patient about his condition and the remaining five
patients that might be rescued by his organs. If the sixth patient is unable to speak and make
decisions, the doctor will ask the guardian to decide on his behalf. The argument here is that, in
order to respect the rights of his sixth patient, the doctor should leave the decision to him or to his
guardian.
In fact, as people are faced with increasing injury, debilitating treatments, and terminal
diagnosis—especially in the short term—most (not everyone, but most) may not want the most
extreme interventions. They would fairly choose natural death, with comfort-focused priorities of
treatment. By then, the doctor has no right to avoid administering medication to the sixth patient
until he or his guardian says so.
The Plagiarized Report: You are an English teacher at a high school. One of your students is a
very bright and gifted girl, whom you have always enjoyed teaching. She has always achieved
high grades throughout her school years, and is now in her final year and getting ready to
graduate. Unfortunately, she has been very ill this term and missed several weeks of schooling.
She has just turned in a report which is worth 40% of her final grade, but you realize that she did
not write it herself. She has copied a report found online and tried to pass it off as her own work.
If you report her plagiarization to the school authorities, it will be entered on her permanent record,
making her ineligible to attend the prestigious university that she has dreamed of attending. If you
refuse to accept the report, her final mark will be very poor and may harm her chances of being
chosen for the university. If you mark the paper as though you believed it was her own work, she
will do very well, and stand every chance of getting her desired university. What should you do?
If I am the teacher, I will consider the paper, but I will not award it the highest possible score. I'm
going to accept her paper given her condition. And since this is the first time she submitted a
plagiarized work. She may have preferred to plagiarize because of her illness. However,
plagiarism is indeed plagiarism, whatever the reason may be. I agree that if she truly is a top
student, giving her a single low grade isn't going to hurt that much. This is going to act as a
warning to her that could benefit her in college. This is going to prove that the teacher is fair and
just. And she will understand the seriousness of plagiarizing the work of other individuals.