Difficult Ethical Choices
Understand that ethical decisions are not always black and white — that sometimes there is no perfect answer and reasonable people can disagree — and practise weighing up competing values when making difficult choices
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Difficult Ethical Choices means practising that ethical choices are not always black and white and weighing competing values. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes weighing one difficult choice, then checking one fresh values trade-off.
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Check understanding
- Describe a moral dilemma where both sides have valid points
- Explain the values in tension (e.g., loyalty vs safety, honesty vs kindness)
- Describe how they would make a decision in such a situation and justify their reasoning
“If your child's friend tells them a secret but the secret involves something dangerous, can your child think through the tension between loyalty to their friend and the need to keep someone safe?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Responsible Decision-Making
- Age range
- Ages 9–11