Workers

Recently a company fired some people for unknown reasons. Some workers think that their bosses are listening in on their private conversations through cameras and microphones in the building and using the information against them. The bosses say that they are not listening in. The workers cannot legally do anything until they can prove that their bosses are listening in on their conversations. Two workers then break into the main office and take the tapes that prove their bosses were listening in.

1) Would you agree or disagree with the workers’ action

How acceptable do you find the following arguments in favor of the two workers’ action? Suppose someone argued they were right for breaking in.

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2) because they didn’t cause much damage to the company.

3) because the company did not follow the law that says that they should not listen in, the actions of the two workers were allowed to bring back law and order.

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Doctor

A woman had cancer and she had no hope of being saved. She was in terrible pain and was so weak that a large dose of a painkiller such as morphine would have caused her to die. During a brief period of improvement, she begged the doctor to give her enough morphine to kill her. She said she could no longer stand the pain and would be dead in a few weeks anyway. After some thinking, the doctor decided to give her an overdose of morphine.

14) Do you agree or disagree with the doctor’s action...

How acceptable do you find the arguments presented against the doctor’s action? Suppose someone said that he acted in a wrong way.

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26) because the doctor broke the law. If a person thinks that mercy-killing is illegal, then one should refuse such requests from the patient.

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