Directions: After you have completed your PSA , Public Service Announcement for your Voki character, think and write about three things:
1st Why is your issue a moral/ethical dilemma?
2nd Which approach did you take to your solution? Explain why you classify your approach that way.
i.e. - Is it a Virtue Approach to Solving your dilemma?
- Is it a Common Good Approach to Solving your dilemma?
3rd: (Might require some research!!!) What actions has society (the public, the government, organizations, etc.) taken to solve this dilemma? Have these actions been “right or wrong”? Why? Have the consequences of these actions been “good or bad”? Why?
Ms. Bates’ Example:
Topic: Prohibit America
1st: Why is your issue a moral/ethical dilemma?
1 in 5 deaths are due to smoking each year. Americans are dying at rates higher than HIV, motor vehicle accidents, alcohol use, illegal drug use suicides and murders combined; yet the government still permits Americans to purchase them. But, many would argue that American adults have the mental capacity to decide how they want to relieve stress and subsequently die. Isn’t the government supposed to look out for the common good of its people? This is a moral/ethical dilemma because the government wants to help its people by not infringing upon their rights, but it also realizes the need to intervene its smoking habits due to the alarming death rates.
2nd: Which approach did you take to your solution? Explain why you classify your approach that way.
By getting people to write to their congressman to ban smoking, I would classify my approach to solving this solution as the Common Good Approach because through the outlawing of smoking, I would be getting our government to do what’s best for the greater whole.
3rd (Might require some research!!!) What actions has society (the public, the government, organizations, etc.) taken to solve this dilemma? Have these actions been “right or wrong”? Why? Have the consequences of these actions been “good or bad”? Why?
Some actions that society has taken in the prevention of smoking are the increased awareness of smoking’s harmful effects through the creation of billboards, televised commercials, and health warnings on the sides of cigarette packages. I think that this is a right action because the government is utilizing pictorial ads to prevent smoking; but it yields bad consequences, because only 15% of the world’s population meets the best practices for pictorial warnings (World Health Organization.) Additionally, unless urgent action is taken, the annual death toll could rise to more than eight million, globally, by 2030 (World Health Organization.)
DUE FRIDAY, MAY 4!!!!
** BE READY TO PRESENT YOUR WORK !!!! ***
