Anyone have teaching inspiration?

[liv]

I want to do a sort of moral maze type discussion with my class next week. Does anyone have any suggestions for scenarios that could get 12-year-olds thinking about moral dilemmas? A mixture of secular ones and religious ones is probably good, so I welcome suggestions from people who aren't Jewish.

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[atreic.livejournal.com]

I think the train scenario is usually phrased the other way round - that it will run into the wall, but you could change the points and it would save all the people on the train but kill the baby. Because it is generally accepted that "train full of people, including some babies" is more worth saving than "one baby", but the dilemma comes from "train running over a baby because I redirected it" is more your individual fault than "train crashing into a wall that was nothing to do with me".

(the BBC website had a thing on this a while back (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4954856.stm))

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Might very well be--I just saw that version.

Your presentation makes sense. Hmm.