Extreme Situations

The point of this activity is to make difficult questions involving choosing a course of action in extreme situations. Usually this situations will involve feelings, prejudices, ethics,,etc.

Examples 1:
You are on a deserted island. There is a motor boat and you are the only one who knows how to drive it. It is up to you to decide which people of the following people you are going to take with you in the boat. There is space for only you and 3 more people.
Here they are:

• a prostitute
• a drug addict
• a dying old man
• a doctor convicted of malpractice
• a child pornographer
• a convicted criminal
• (Note: You should adjust the list to suit the students in your class. Delete some if you find them offensive. Add others that you think would generate good discussion.)

Example 2:
You find a wallet with $50,000 and the ID of its owner. That money is exactly the amount of money you need to cover the expenses of a delicate operation for your daughter. She needs that operation to survive. What would you do with the money?

And you can create new extreme questions to challenge students to speak.