Moral Dilemma

                                    MORAL DILEMMA

Once I'm in this situation, I'll be put under pressure by making me chose if I would sacrifice 1 to save 5 people or save 1 but sacrifice 5 people. 

In my opinion, I will save a large number of people rather than one. If I only save one then that means I have sacrificed all of them just for one person. And there will be more family members that will be angry at me because of how many people I have killed. 

A dilemma is like a trolley problem, is a series of thought experiments in morals and psychology, involving stylized moral dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. 

A moral dilemma is a situation in which a person is told to choose between right and wrong. A few examples of a moral dilemma include The classic “lifeboat dilemma”, where there are only 10 spaces in the lifeboat, but there are 11 passengers on the sinking ship. A decision must be made as to who will stay behind. 

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(You are walking through a rail yard when you notice a runaway trolley careening your way. Directly in its path are five people, bound and lying across the tracks. They will die if nothing is done. There is a lever nearby. Pulling it will divert the trolley onto another track. On this other track, however, is a man who cannot hear or see you or the trolley. You can stand by and do nothing, watching as five innocent people die, or you can pull the lever, directly causing one man’s death. Which is the more ethical choice?)

The Trolley Problem: In this situation what I think I would do is pull the lever to sacrifice one man other than sacrificing all five people. 

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(The dilemma is the same, except that you recognize the guy standing alone as the actor and comedian Jim Carrey. And this is “Dumb and Dumber”-era Jim Carrey. In fact, he’s in costume, and has that bowl haircut he sported in the eminently quotable 1994 film. Remembering all of those funny lines makes you smile. What a great movie. The five tied-up people are also Jim Carrey—clones, you assume—but they’re the modern, anti-vaxxer version, with full beards and dead eyes.)

The Jim Carrey: What I would do is not put the trolley and sacrifice Jim Carrey clone. I wouldn't pull the lever to go in another direction since you can make another clone of Jim Carrey if you don't kill him. 

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(In this variation there is no second track but there is another man standing nearby, between the trolley and the five helpless people. If you shove him onto the tracks, his body will likely stop the trolley. You know nothing about this man except that at this very moment he’s on his phone composing a tweet that begins with the word “thread.”

Also, he’s vaping.)

The Thread: My only choice is to shove his body so that it will stop the trolley to save the five helpless people. 

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(You can’t be a hundred percent sure, but it looks like the person standing alone is actually two small people, one standing on the other’s shoulders, sharing a long overcoat. Could they be children? Who are they trying to fool? And why? In any case, they’re probably up to no good.

Does that merit a death sentence, though?)

The long overcoat: I think that it's a bit suspicious that the kids are playing on the railway, so I think that I will pull the lever to save sacrifice the person with the long overcoat rather than the five people that maybe has no idea about the train coming to them. 

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(The lone man is Adolf Hitler. Actually, this one is kind of a no-brainer, isn’t it? Not sure why it’s even listed here.)

The Hitler:  What I would do is pull the lever to save the five people because Hitler was a bad guy that has killed 6 million people.

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Reading Summary

 Text Title: Amulet

Text Type: Narrative, Non- fiction, and poetry

Text Creator: Kazu Kibuishi

Text Purpose:  Amulet is about finding the courage and the means of facing one's challenges and fears. It's a series about heroes and responsibility and learning to trust

Date: Friday, July 9

I would say the book amulet comes under the genre´s of:

• Graphic novel
• Fantasy Fiction
• Comics
• Young adult fictions
• Science fiction

Wind Racer (Science)

 Aim: To make the most efficient wind racer which would either go the furthest or looks the most creative.

Equipment: Newspaper, plastic bag, tape, trolley, bamboo/metal rod, skewers.

Method:

• Gather all your equipment

• Set up your trolley and your bamboo stick, by placing the stick in the hole. 

• Cut a plastic bag into a partially large rectangle a size that would suit the stick. 

• Repeat with newspaper or paper. 

• Tape your first rectangle to the rod.

• Repeat with your other material. 

• After use sticks to create a structure for the sail, we used skewers but you can use another material. - Since we used a whole newspaper page, we stuck 2 skewers together from the ends. Making it longer. 

• Stick one pair at the top and another one at the bottom

• Depending on the size of your sail and rod place one or two pairs in the middle too. 

• After, make sure everything is secure by using tape in places that are weak. 

• Finally, decorate to make the appearance look more appealing.

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Result:

Discussion:  

After building the wind racer, we then went outside for the distance test. We used the leaf blower to move our wind racer. Our wind racer stop at a certain point where the wind of the leaf blower can't reach anymore. We put plastic in front of the cardboard so that it can catch the wind to push it. If we have used the metal stick then probably it could take more air since it's stronger. I forgot to take a picture of our wind racer so I just got a picture from the internet.

Conclusion:

The wind racer that we made turned good, it went pretty far but it stopped because the air of the leaf blower can't reach anymore. We raced with my classmate and I think our wind racer got 3rd/ 2nd place. In design, I think my group and I could still make it look better and make the sail more creative. Anyway, we had fun building our Wind Racer. I hope that if we do it again we will come 1st, and also we might change ours in a different position since our one got stuck in the grass after reaching the capacity of the air from the leaf blower.