Browse 508 moral dilemmas. Filter by category. Sort by divisivity — how close the world is to a 50/50 split.
You discover your company is illegally polluting a river. Reporting it will shut down the plant — destroying 1,000 jobs in a poor community.
Your group of 13 reaches a fortified shelter — already occupied by 8 strangers at capacity. They refuse to open. Your group includes children. You could force the door; they have no weapons.
Would you let AI grade your final exam if every student got results faster?
A student used AI for homework but clearly learned the material. Should the teacher still give a zero?
A religious mediator can secure peace only by accepting an unfair compromise. Should they support it?
A kingdom can be saved by binding a dragon forever under the castle. Do you imprison it?
A prophecy says a child will become a tyrant. Do you exile them before they do anything wrong?
You can stop your fixation only by cutting off someone who did nothing wrong. Do you do it?
Your parent with dementia asks daily where their late spouse is. Do you tell the truth and watch them grieve again, or let them live in a comforting fiction?
A platform's algorithm flags a user's private messages as potential self-harm signals — ambiguous, possibly venting. Do you alert emergency contacts?
A parent threatens to report you to the school board unless you raise their child's failing grade. Do you hold the line or protect your career?
Scientists confirm your unborn child carries a gene guaranteeing a painful, fatal disease by age 30. You can genetically edit the embryo to eliminate it — but the same gene cluster also shapes traits like empathy and creativity that make your child uniquely who they will be. Do you edit?
DNA evidence exonerates an innocent person after 25 years on death row. The real killer is 85, frail, and dying. Do they go to prison?
Vaccines are 99% effective and safe. Should they be legally mandatory for school attendance, even for parents with religious objections?
Your terminally ill parent is in unbearable pain and begs you to end their suffering. The doctors say weeks remain. No one will find out.
The person who falsely accused you 10 years ago — costing you a career — is now leading a community charity. They've never reached out.
A new tax would halve the income of the top 1% and double the income of the bottom 20%. The total wealth in society stays the same.
An AI sentencing tool is more consistent than human judges across similar cases, but cannot explain its reasoning. Should it be used?
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