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Describe your behavior in hypothetical situations
A group of high school students wanted to know what people do in a
moral dilemma
.
They surveyed 20 students.
The questions and results were as follows:
Suppose you found at the bus station a box full of non-authorized copies of
flms. What would you do?
a) Give it to the police or keep it.
The 5% of the people give it to police, 95% keep it.
b) Try to fnd the owner or leave it.
The 2% oF the people try to fnd the owner, 98% leave it.
c) Sell them or donate them to a charity institution.
Everybody sells them.
A friend gives you a non-authorized copy a music CD. Would you accept it?
The 100% of the people accept it.
You see some great content for a class presentation, but is copyright. Would
you use it in your class presentation to impress your teacher?
The 73% uses the content and 27% thinks teacher would realize it.
What would you do in a moral dilemma?
After reading the above text, write an adjective to describe people´s behavior in relation
to moral values.
Honest
Responsible
Trustworthy
Learning activity 1.7
People who give the box full of non-authorized
copies oF flms to the police.
People who try to fnd the owner oF the box.
People who think that the teacher would realize
about it.
Check your answers in the Answer Key
Read the text.
Look up in a dictionary the meaning of the words you don´t know and write
them in the Glossary that you will fnd at the end oF this book.
Learning activity 1.6