Ethics, Worldview & Influence
Can I Or Should I?
This lesson helps students tell the difference between what they can do and what they should do. They practise simple ethical checks.
What you will learn
- Recognise the specific situations where 'I can do this' and 'I should do this' come apart, and see why the gap matters.
- Use four simple ethical decision tests to examine a choice before making it.
- Reason through a genuinely difficult case where no option is perfect, using the four tests as a guide.
- Build a personal ethics card the student can carry into future decisions.
What happens in this lesson
Chapter 1: Ethical Tension Launch
Recognise the specific situations where 'I can do this' and 'I should do this' come apart, and see why the gap matters.
What you make: A saved ethical tension note describing one specific situation from the student's own life where they could have done something but had to decide whether they should, and what the deciding reason was.
Chapter 2: Decision Tests
Use four simple ethical decision tests to examine a choice before making it.
What you make: A saved decision tests worksheet running a specific real or realistic choice through the four tests and naming which test was hardest to pass.
Chapter 3: Grey Area Case
Reason through a genuinely difficult case where no option is perfect, using the four tests as a guide.
What you make: A saved grey-area case response that names the options, runs the four tests, picks an option, and honestly describes the cost the chosen option still carries.
Chapter 4: Ethics Card
Build a personal ethics card the student can carry into future decisions.
What you make: A saved ethics card containing the four decision tests rewritten in the student's own plain language, one trigger sentence per test, and a note on when to pull the card out.
Chapter 5: When The Tests Disagree
Evaluate the limits of the four ethical tests when they point in different directions, and build a more advanced decision note for a real case with competing values.
What you make: A saved conflict-note that compares at least two options, identifies where the four tests agree and disagree, and explains which value the learner chose to prioritise and why.
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