Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the role of warfare in technological advance.
- Awareness of moral and ethical considerations in technological development.
- Understand a Christian approach to questions of ethics and morality in conflict.
Category Archives: Life and Death Issues
The Peanut Butter Falcon: What makes life valuable?
Learning Objectives:
- Explore Christian ideas about sanctity of life.
- Consider why Christians might have differing views about abortion.
- Understand the views of abortion campaigners.
- Give a personal response to the question of what makes a life valuable.
Avengers: Age of Ultron: What moral limits should be placed upon genetic engineering?
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the concept of the sanctity of life.
- Awareness of different forms of reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
- Understanding of different arguments for and against reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
- Consideration of future consequences of current advances in reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
The Bourne Legacy: What (if any) limits should be placed on scientific research with the intention of improving the human condition?
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the concept of the Sanctity of Life.
- Awareness of different forms of reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
- Understanding of different arguments for and against reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
- Consideration of future consequences of current advances in reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
Doctor Who: Time Heist: What factors influence someone’s decision of whether to bring their own life to an end?
Learning Objectives:
- Understand different views about when and how life ends.
- Understanding of different arguments for and against euthanasia, and the alternatives.
- Awareness of different Christian views about suicide.
- Awareness of other moral dilemmas involved in assisted deaths.
Tony Nicklinson: Who has the right to decide when someone should die?
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding of the concept of Sanctity of Life.
- Understanding of different arguments for and against euthanasia, and the alternatives.
- Awareness of different Christian views about suicide.
- Awareness of other moral dilemmas involved in assisted deaths.
Never Let Me Go: What factors should be taken into account when deciding whether or not to create cloned human beings?
Learning Objectives:
- Awareness of different forms of reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
- Understanding of different arguments for and against reproductive technology.
- Consideration of future consequences of current advances in reproductive technology.
Ethos Education 