All moral dilemmas
Browse 72 moral dilemmas. Filter by category. Sort by divisivity — how close the world is to a 50/50 split.
A runaway trolley is heading toward 5 people. You can pull a lever to divert it — but it will kill 1 person instead.
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An AI generates a masterpiece painting with no human creative input. Who owns the copyright?
A law would ban AI romantic companions for anyone under 18, enforced by age verification. Studies show isolation drops AND face-to-face dating skills atrophy.
Your 13-year-old chats every night with an AI companion that remembers everything, never argues, and feels like a romantic partner. Their grades are fine. Their friends are fewer.
Your small online shop has 4.5 stars; competitors at 4.9 are using AI to generate hundreds of glowing reviews. You could match them in an afternoon. No one verifies.
For 3 years you've confided your deepest thoughts to someone online who felt like a true friend. You just discovered they are an AI persona built by a company that sells emotional support subscriptions. Do you keep using it?
A startup builds AI replicas of dead loved ones from texts, voice notes, and photos. Your father died five years ago. The trial is free.
An app generates personalised prayers, dispenses blessings, and offers AI confession. Some users say it deepened their faith. Religious institutions call it a desecration.
Your company offers you the same salary to either supervise an AI doing your old job, or to retrain into a different role with no guarantee of getting it. You have 30 days to decide.
You used AI to produce a report your boss called 'the best analysis you've ever done.' In the all-hands, they praise it as proof 'we don't need to hire a third analyst.' Do you say how you made it?
You sit on the ethics board reviewing a promising cancer therapy. To reach human trials, it must first be tested on animals that will suffer and be killed. Your vote is the deciding one.
Scientists can upload your consciousness to a computer perfectly. Your biological body must die in the process. Is the digital version still you?
You finally have the space and time for a dog. You can buy the specific breed you've always dreamed of from a breeder, or adopt an adult shelter dog who is harder to place and may be put down if no one takes them.
A politician spreads false claims that lead to harassment and violence in some communities. Should they be permanently banned from all major platforms?
Your terminally ill parent is dying in another country. You've publicly pledged never to fly again for climate reasons — your 80,000 followers remember. A train would take 4 days and might arrive too late.
At 22, drunk after a party, you drove and sideswiped another car. The driver was injured — 3 months of rehab. You fled. You're now 40, a respected professional. No one has ever connected you to it.
Your partner accidentally ran a red light and killed a pedestrian. They panic and beg you to drive away. No cameras saw you.
You spot a coworker's mistake that will quietly harm customers. No one else has noticed, and flagging it will get your colleague in serious trouble.
You discover a cure for cancer, but it only works if you keep the formula secret — sharing it would destroy the compound's effectiveness forever.
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