Introduction
For my second Apollo project this school year, I collaborated with two of my peers to create a podcast where we discussed different moral dilemmas. A moral dilemma is a conflict situation in which every available choice is wrong. Throughout our podcast, we discussed three different moral dilemmas. The three moral dilemmas discussed are listed below
1. You are driving home through the middle of nowhere one night when a homeless drunkard wanders into the road. You do your best to avoid him but are not quick enough. You check to see his injuries and find he is dead. There is nobody around who would have heard or seen the accident. You have a perfect driving record and are well known and highly respected in your community. Do you: Take responsibility and report the death to the police? Or leave him dead on the side of the road and drive home knowing you will not be caught?
2. Your friend tells you they committed a crime. They tell you that they cant sleep at night and feel you are the only one they can trust with this secret . A few days later, you come across a section in the newspaper that someone has been arrested for your friend’s crime. Do you: Go to the police and tell them what you know? Encourage your friend to confess and warn him if he does not do so, you will tell? Or Say nothing because you will not betray a friend’s confidence?
3. Your family is vacationing alone on a private stretch of beach with no lifeguard. Your daughter and your niece, both 7, are eager to get into the water. You caution them to wait until the water calms some, but they defy you and sneak in anyway. You soon hear screams of distress and find them both caught in a strong current. You are the only swimmer strong enough to save them, but you can only save one at a time. Your niece is a very poor swimmer and likely won't make it much longer. Your daughter is a stronger swimmer, but only has a 50% chance of holding on long enough for you to come back for her. Who do you save first? Save your daughter first; you know that your niece will probably die, but you can't bear to lose your child or save your niece first and hope that your daughter can hold on long enough for you to come back for her?
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1. You are driving home through the middle of nowhere one night when a homeless drunkard wanders into the road. You do your best to avoid him but are not quick enough. You check to see his injuries and find he is dead. There is nobody around who would have heard or seen the accident. You have a perfect driving record and are well known and highly respected in your community. Do you: Take responsibility and report the death to the police? Or leave him dead on the side of the road and drive home knowing you will not be caught?
2. Your friend tells you they committed a crime. They tell you that they cant sleep at night and feel you are the only one they can trust with this secret . A few days later, you come across a section in the newspaper that someone has been arrested for your friend’s crime. Do you: Go to the police and tell them what you know? Encourage your friend to confess and warn him if he does not do so, you will tell? Or Say nothing because you will not betray a friend’s confidence?
3. Your family is vacationing alone on a private stretch of beach with no lifeguard. Your daughter and your niece, both 7, are eager to get into the water. You caution them to wait until the water calms some, but they defy you and sneak in anyway. You soon hear screams of distress and find them both caught in a strong current. You are the only swimmer strong enough to save them, but you can only save one at a time. Your niece is a very poor swimmer and likely won't make it much longer. Your daughter is a stronger swimmer, but only has a 50% chance of holding on long enough for you to come back for her. Who do you save first? Save your daughter first; you know that your niece will probably die, but you can't bear to lose your child or save your niece first and hope that your daughter can hold on long enough for you to come back for her?
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History
For the history portion of my project I accumulated research on different moral dilemmas for our podcast. Most of the research we accumulated was from the survey we created. The survey asked the participants to share what they would do in the three different moral dilemmas mentioned in the introduction. We also accumulated statistics about the demographics of each of our participants. For example, we asked for them to share their age, ethnicity, and gender. We used this information to discuss and analyze patterns that we may have seen between age, ethnicity, or gender and their decision for each moral dilemma. Overall we found the most significant impact was age. Almost all of are participants that were older mainly chose the most logical decision. However, the younger participants usually chose the decision that would benefit them the most.
English
For the English portion of my project I created an outline for the podcast. This outline was very helpful while we were recording our podcast because it gave our podcast a bit of structure and organization. I tried to keep my outline very simple because I didn't want it to sound like we were reading off of a script. To keep my script simple, I structured it using bullet points and only included the stuff that was important so we could remember to discuss the important topics. If you would like to read the outline for our podcast , click the button below :)