Moral Decision Making Research Paper

The Decision We make decisions on moral dilemmas throughout our whole lives whether they are big decisions or small ones, they have significant impacts in our everyday lives. Oxford Dictionary defines a moral dilemma as, “A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle”. Moral dilemmas are sometimes very hard on which one someone should choose, because although one decision may benefit the person making the decision it could also have horrific consequences for another person. When making a moral decision it is all based on what a person believes is the right thing and what is the wrong thing to do. When making the decision a person has to look at …show more content…
Although, it would not be right to torture another human being I would to protect the thousands of people he is going to kill. I would torture the bomber to get the locations because although I am torturing him, he does not have to die if I do not then thousands of people will because of him. When put in these positions the person making the decision has to think of the greater good for everyone. Also, I would not physically torture the bomber I would use psychological torture, because it would weaken his mind and make it more likely for him to tell all the locations of the bombs. Would you torture the innocent wife of the bomber to get the answers of where the bombs are planted? No, it is not morally right to torture an innocent person just because their significant other did something terrible. Torturing his wife would not be justifiable because she has done nothing wrong she did not know about the bombs or what her husband was doing. If anything, I would ask the wife to help me get her husband to tell me where the bomb locations are at by having her pretend that she is being tortured to trick the bomber and make him agree to tell us the