Browse 508 moral dilemmas. Filter by category. Sort by divisivity — how close the world is to a 50/50 split.
You built your reputation on a position now proven wrong. Admitting it costs your career and community. Do you recant publicly?
You scored higher on an exam due to an unnoticed grading error. Correcting it costs you a scholarship. No one will ever know.
A zero-tolerance attendance rule costs a student their scholarship — their absence was to donate bone marrow to a sibling. Do you enforce it?
Everyone on the bus ignores a stranger having a breakdown. Intervening means missing your job interview. Do you act?
Your family is struggling financially. You can drain your hard-built emergency fund to ease their pain now, or hold the line and protect your future independence. What do you do?
Your jury unanimously agrees on a verdict you believe is wrong. Speaking up means a mistrial. Do you stay silent or break ranks?
Your supervisor orders you to flag a colleague's file with a minor infraction they didn't commit — to meet a quota. Do you comply?
Your closest friend is in crisis and leans on you daily — but it's eroding your own health. Do you hold a firm boundary, knowing they may spiral?
You can either never tell a lie yourself, or never be lied to by others — but not both. Which do you choose?
A coastal village will be underwater in 20 years. The government offers full relocation funding — but only if the community votes unanimously to leave. Do you vote to go?
A carbon quota system lets the wealthy buy unused credits from the poor. Is trading personal carbon limits just or exploitative?
A steel town's only employer pollutes heavily but employs 80% of residents. Should the government shut it down or keep it running?
A region can cut carbon emissions 40% by building nuclear plants on land sacred to an indigenous community. Who decides?
A climate activist you admire confesses they destroyed construction equipment at a fossil fuel site. Do you turn them in?
A nation begins solar geoengineering unilaterally, cooling the planet but altering monsoons for billions. Should the world intervene or accept the outcome?
Should companies be legally forced to disclose their emissions even if it drives them out of business and kills local jobs?
A meat tax would cut emissions but raise food costs most for low-income families. Should it be implemented?
A pipeline set to destroy a protected wetland is halted only by sabotage. You know who did it. Do you report them?
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