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In a lifeboat scenario with 15 survivors and limited provisions for only 9, participants must decide which 6 individuals to sacrifice. The document lists various characters with differing backgrounds and skills, prompting a moral and ethical discussion on survival. Groups will report their choices and justifications for who stays and who goes.

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In a lifeboat scenario with 15 survivors and limited provisions for only 9, participants must decide which 6 individuals to sacrifice. The document lists various characters with differing backgrounds and skills, prompting a moral and ethical discussion on survival. Groups will report their choices and justifications for who stays and who goes.

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Who goes? Who stays? You decide!

Following a devastating shipwreck, 15 survivors have managed to scramble into a small lifeboat. Unfortunately,
with no hope of immediate rescue and sufficient provisions to support only 9 survivors until they reach landfall,
you have to decide which 6 of the following must be thrown overboard:

• Call girl (36): Both parents are dead. A paramedic nurse.


• Multimillionaire industrialist (57): Will give you £1 million to stay in the lifeboat.
• Catholic priest (64): Has extensive knowledge of the area in which you are now travelling.
• Muslim cleric (46): History of mental illness and depression.
• Shoe salesman (33): Divorced. Has some navigation skills.
• Young child (5): Parents still alive but both HIV positive.
• Black male (29): Married with three young children.
• Research biologist (69): Unmarried, with adult daughter. On the boat has worked out how to produce
cheap, effective AIDS vaccine.
• Married couple (23 and 25): She is an alcoholic. Two young sons at home.
• Male (43): Suspected child abuser (unproven). Unmarried. A sail-maker.
• White male (28): Has history of drug abuse and petty crime. Good fisherman.
• Senior diplomat (59): Returning home with agreement to avert war between two countries.
• Cabaret artist (32): Crossdresser. Excellent storyteller and singer.
• Olympic rower (20): Studying medicine at Oxford and recently diagnosed as typhoid carrier.

Once the choices have been made, each group should report back to the class, justifying why they chose some
people to survive and some to be sacrificed.

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