1. make a meme (a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc) on the issue below.

Issue: Animal Ethics

Rational argument about the right and wrong way to treat animals is made difficult by the love that many of us feel for animals. give your ethical reactions.

2. what will you do in the situation below?

"both sides toward the middle"

this involves having people agree on ethical behaviors at two extremes of a continuum. for example, it is ethical to break confidentiality (i.e,. report to authorities) when a person confided to kill another person. it is not ethical to break confidentiality when a person threatens to jaywalk. virtually all individuals can see that; extreme situations are easy. but then we push individuals to think more deeply by shifting the facts toward the gray areas. when does the promise to not breach confidentiality change to breaching confidentiality? for example: what if a person confided to defame another by writing a scathing blog post? what if they threaten to embezzle a small amount of money from a bank? what if its a large amount of money? what if its a large amount of money from your bank?