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__ Role of Perspective in Ethical Dilemmas __ ** Instructions for Activity 1: ** Below are a series of ethical dilemmas (situations where there is not a definitive right or wrong). For your assigned link summarize the ethical dilemma and attempt to brainstorm with your group members (3-4 per group) a list of potential perspectives that could reach a different moral conclusion. Attempt to consider how our Ways of Knowing might impact our perspective of the dilemma or how an expert from the different Areas of Knowledge might evaluate the morality of the scenario. You have 12 minutes to complete your list. [|US and Syria] [|Second Article on US and Syria (Supplements One Above)] [|Pregnancy for Sale] [|One Man and His Brick] [|Sterilization of the Disabled] Assign each perspective you came up with to one member of your group to represent in an ethical debate on how we should evaluate the morality of the situation. If you have more perspectives then group members, then select the best ones to represent in your discussion. You have 5 minutes to prepare your arguments and your discussion will be approximately 10 minutes. //**Class Discussion Questions (Each could be assigned for a homework written response)**// 1. To what extent may the circumstances of people’s lives excuse actions that might be condemned by society’s moral principles?
 * Instructions for Activity 2:**

2. Can respect for a culture, in harmony with principles of tolerance and openness, be reconciled with a condemnation of specific practices within that culture, on the basis of other principles?