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C Topic Preview: Ethical Decision 1 . What is the goal of thought experiments? Read the Passage to Awaken Your Prior Knowledge 2 . Debate the topic below to broaden your view. (1) Check your position and prepare reasons, facts, examples to support your position. (2) Share your opinions on the topic with your class. When dealing with ethical decisions, complex questions often arise. Thought experiments are valuable tools for such situations. They don’t provide concrete answers; instead, they prompt reflection on our beliefs and the reasons behind them. One well-known thought experiment invites us to consider whether choosing the greatest good for the largest number of people is always the optimal ethical approach. Imagine a scenario where five terminally ill individuals are simultaneously facing organ failure. Coincidentally, a healthy person nearby is a suitable match to donate organs to all five dying individuals. By sacrificing the healthy individual, it becomes possible to save the lives of all five. Opting to kill the healthy person to harvest their organs appears to be the choice that guarantees the greatest benefit for the greatest number of people in this situation. However, is it truly justifiable to sacrifice one to save five? How would you respond if you were the healthy person? Alternatively, how would you react if you were one of the dying individuals? These questions do not have easy answers. Ethics is not an exact science; there’s no single correct response. Reasons, Facts, Examples Agree Disagree Is it acceptable to sacrifice an individual for the benefit of others? 136 Special Lesson