Ethical Dilemma “Silvia is Stuck”

Read the following scenario and answer ALL of the questions below.

Scenario: You and your family are on a vacation excursion with a group of tourists, all of whom were strangers before the tour. The tour leader is a pregnant woman named Silvia. Throughout the tour, Silvia takes the group to visit several beautiful caves along a coastline. While leading your tourist group out of one of the caves, Silvia trips and gets stuck in the mouth of the cave and cannot be pulled or pushed out of it. In a short time high-tide will be upon all of you, and unless Silvia is unstuck, all of you will be drowned except Silvia, whose head is out of the cave. Peter, one of the tourists, advises that he has a stick of dynamite with him and suggests lighting it at the mouth of the cave so all of you can escape. The tourist group realizes there is no way to get Silvia loose from the mouth of the cave without using the dynamite which will inevitably kill her. However, if the group does not use the dynamite everyone else will drown.

Questions: A) What would you suggest to the tourist group? Be specific. (Minimum one paragraph, no less than five sentences.) B) Is your suggestion ethical? Cogently apply a deontological or a teleological argument to your discussion. (Minimum one paragraph, no less than five sentences each.) C) Is Peter’s suggestion amoral, moral, or immoral? Explain. (Minimum one paragraph, no less than five sentences.)

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