To isolate value conflicts and to understand how different conclusions can be based on conflicting values.
Try to isolate the various value conflicts in these personal and social issues. Some of the issues may involve more than one set of conflicting values.
Note especially how both values can be important, and we as individuals or as citizens need to make tough decisions. Creating policies for difficult problems means giving one value a higher priority than another.
The first one is done for you as an example.
1. Should teenagers be required to obtain the approval of their parents before they receive birth control pills or other forms of contraception?
1. Example: The conflict in this issue is between the value of individual freedom and privacy on one side and parental responsibility and guidance on the other.
2. Should birth parents be allowed to take their child back from adoptive parents after they have signed a paper relinquishing rights?
3. Should you give a substantial part of your paycheck to a charity that feeds famine-stricken families or use it for some new jeans you need?
4. Should undocumented residents receive amnesty?
5. Should persons be hired for jobs without regard to maintaining an ethnic mix?
6. Should you tell your professor that students in the back of the class were cheating on the last test?
7. Should superior athletes receive admission to colleges over other applicants who have higher grades or SAT scores?
8. Should criminals be allowed to accept royalties on books they've written about the crimes they committed?
9. Should you donate a kidney to a sick relative?
10. Should children of alumni donors be allowed an advantage in admissions to private universities?
Please help me find the conflict number 2 to 10 please.