Stumbled across a BBC piece presenting several famous ethical dilemmas. How would you decide on them?
It was interesting to see how seemingly-contrived ethical questions like this can be relevant to real-world decisions people make. The connection to medical and military dilemmas is obvious, but the "should I harm one person to help several others?" question is one that can crop up in our everyday lives and relationships as well.
It's also revealing that a simple rewording of the same ethical dilemma can affect the way you want to answer--even though several of the questions are essentially just variants of the same basic ethical dilemma, I answered differently on several of them. Does that make me ethically inconsistent? (I prefer to think of myself as "ethically nuanced.")
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