1. Make a meme (a humorous position/ image, video, piece of text, etc) on the issue below. Slavery Slavery can broadly be described as the ownership, buying and selling of human beings for the purpose of forced and unpaid labor. 1. Make a meme (a humorous position/ image, video, piece of text, etc) on the issue below. Sport Competition is not unethical but the allure of winning can drive some competitors to unethical behavior. Torture Torture involves deliberately inflicting physical or mental pain on a person without legal cause. Exploring YOUR ETHICS Exercise 4: Shipwreck situation This is a classic case in ethics theory. Give the following information to the students: Imagine that you are involved in a shipwreck situation - a ship has started to sink in the middle of the ocean. Eleven people have jumped into a life-boat that has been designed for a maximum of ten people only, and the life-boat is also starting to sink. What should the passengers do? Throw one person overboard and save ten lives? Or stick to the principle of "do not kill", which means that everybody will drown? The lecturer can invite contributions from the class and even take a vote, and then illustrate how different theoretical approaches (e.g. utilitarianism and deontology) will lead to different solutions that are both valid in terms of the particular approach. Guidelines This exercise can be used in different contexts, either to precede a presentation on ethical theories, or as an exercise in which students can apply newly acquired knowledge about such theories. The most effective use is probably to do the exercise before the ethical theories are discussed in detail. This will lead to lively discussion and debate, and the lecturer can illustrate how our decision-making processes can be explained by ethical theories. The teacher can then revisit the example afterwards with a more formal approach, by clearly indicating what specific solutions the different theories will offer