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1. Topic 6 Assignment
Due Sun. December 11 @ 11:59 pm
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2. Topic 6 Assignment
Due Sun. December 11 @ 11:59 pm
•Will go through it this morning

3. Due Dates
• Ethical Decision-Making due Sun. Dec 11
• Quiz 6 due Sun. Dec 11
• Everything (including late work) due Wed. Dec. 14
• Final Exam due Fri. Dec 16 @ 11:59 pm.
• No class on Fri. Dec. 16

4. Topic 6 Assignment
Due Sun. December 11 @ 11:59 pm
• I CHANGED THE ASSIGNMENT
If you’ve written original assignment, GOOD
If you are writing the revised assignment, BETTER
If you are doing a student presentation, AWESOME!

5. Topic 6 Assignment
Due Sun. December 11 @ 11:59 pm
•Will go through it this morning

6. CMV-101 | Topic 6 | Part 1
Worldview & Ethical Decision-Making

7. 1. Everyone’s had a slice of pie
2. There’s one slice of pie left
3. You are still hungry

8. Is it RIGHT
For you to take the last slice?

9. What Moral rules
Shape your decision?

10. What Moral rules
Shape your decision?
What Natural laws
Shape your decision

11. What Moral rules
Shape your decision?
What Natural laws
Shape your decision
What Government (Civil) laws
Shape your decision

12. What do you do ???????????

13. Is it RIGHT
For you to take the last slice?

14. What Moral rules
Shape your decision?

15. What Moral rules
Shape your decision?
What Natural laws
Shape your decision

16. What Moral rules
Shape your decision?
What Natural laws
Shape your decision
What Government (Civil) laws
Shape your decision

17. What are Ethics?
Ethics (moral philosophy), the discipline concerned with what
is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The
term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values
or principles. “How shall we live?”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ethics-philosophy

18. What rules govern our ethical choices?
• Moral or Social
• Natural Law
• Civil Law

19. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially or culturally
appropriate?
• Natural Law
• Civil Law

20. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially appropriate?
• Natural Law - I’m hungry!
• Civil Law

21. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially gracious to do?
• Natural Law - I’m hungry! I’m diabetic!
• Civil Law

22. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially culturally approp?
• Natural Law - I’m hungry! I’m diabetic!
• Civil Law - Did I pay for that slice?

23. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially gracious to do?
• Natural Law - I’m hungry! I’m diabetic!
• Civil Law - Did I pay for that slice?
• Biblical Law — Be generous

24. Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed
down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your
lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured
back to you.”
(Luke 6:38 ESV)

25. Do nothing from sel
fi
sh ambition or conceit, but in humility
count others more signi
fi
cant than yourselves. Let each of
you look not only to his own interests, but also to the
interests of others.
(Phil 2:3–4 ESV)

26. CIVIL LAW BIBLICAL LAW
SOCIAL/CULTURAL RULES NATURAL LAW

27. SOCIAL/CULTURAL RULES NATURAL LAW
CIVIL LAW BIBLICAL LAW
WHERE DO THEY
INTERSECT?

28. SOCIAL/CULTURAL RULES NATURAL LAW
CIVIL LAW BIBLICAL LAW
WHERE DO THEY
CONFLICT?

29. How do worldviews shape our
ethical choices?

30. Worldview Question:
Who designs the Family?
God or the State

31. Worldview:
China’s One Child Per Family Law
• The State should plan the growth of society
• Therefore, the State plans families
• Therefore, families should be loyal to the State and only have
one child per family.

32. World: Chinese Communism
• Each person is responsible to the State
• Each decision considers the good of the State
• Each outcome should align with the directives of the State
• Don’t have more than one child per family

33. World: Christian Worldview
• Obedience to God
• God commanded Adam & Eve to be fruitful and multiply
• Every child is created in the image of God!
• Kingdom of God is greater than the kingdom of people.

34. Worldview: DILEMMA
1. Parents have a daughter

35. Worldview: DILEMMA
1. Parents have a daughter
2. Mother accidentally gives birth to son

36. Worldview: DILEMMA
1. Parents have a daughter
2. Mother accidentally gives birth to son
3. Do they get ride of the daughter because
the son takes care of the parents?

37. Social:
You need a SON
Natural:
You had a Child!
Civil:
ONe Child per family!
Biblical:
Be fruitful & Multiply
Image of God
DILEMMA

38. Worldview Question:
Science or Sacred Sites?

39. Mauna Loa
Astronomical Observatory

40. Mauna Loa Observatory
11,135 Feet elevation
Built in 1965
Solar observatory warns of solar storms, changes in the Sun
Coronal mass ejections
Measures climate change, CO2 levels in the atmosphere
Front line of Tracking global warming and climate change

41. Mauna Loa Observatory
11,135 Feet elevation
Built in 1965
Solar observatory warns of solar storms, changes in the Sun
Coronal mass ejections
Measures climate change, CO2 levels in the atmosphere
Front line of Tracking global warming and climate change

42. Native Hawaiian
Want Mauna Kea & Mauna Loa
Removed
Sits on sacred lands

43. Mauna Loa Observatory
Scientific - Modernist Worldview — scientifically important
Civil Law — Land belongs to the Federal Government
Hawaiian Traditional Worldview — sacred land, belongs to Pele

44. How does a Christian Worldview
guide our Ethical decision-Making

45. Act 1 - Creation
God created humans in his image
Humans have god-given value
Humans created to
fl
ourish

46. Act 1 - Creation
Humans created to care for earth

47. Act 2 - The Fall
Su
ff
ering exists because of Sin
Disorder & con
fl
ict are because of sin

48. Act 3 - Redemption
Jesus came to atone for sin and
restore our relationship with God

49. Act 4 - Restoration
God is in the process of restoring our
relationship with Him
God is the process of restoring His
creation

50. Ethical Decision-Making

51. Step One
De
fi
ne the dilemma
Identify all the options

52. Step Two
Identify the Stakeholders
(The interested parties)
Describe the bene
fi
ts for each option
Describe the consequences for each

53. Step Three
Identify the laws or principles
a. What are the civil laws?
b. What are the moral social rules?
c. What are the natural laws?
d. What are the Biblical principles?

54. Step Four
Present an argument for option 1
Support it using the four laws
including Scripture

55. Step Five
Present an argument for option 2
Support it using the four laws

56. Step Five
Present an argument for option 2
Support it using the four laws
including Scripture

57. Step Six
Present YOUR argument
Support it from a Christian Worldview
Perspective

58. Step Seven
What will be the consequences,
And how will you minimize them?

59. Ethical Decision-Making
1. Define the dilemma, Identify the options
2. Identify the stakeholders (interested parties)
3. Identify the laws or principles (gov’t, moral, natural, Bible)
4. Present the argument for option 1
5. Present the argument for option 2
6. Argue for your option & support it from a CWV
7. What are the consequences, & how will you alleviate/minimize them?

60. Case Study #1
The Grocery Cart

61. The Dilemma
You arrive home
You realize you have a $50 bottle of
champagne in your cart you didn’t
pay for.

62. Step One
Identify the Options
Option 1 — keep it for New Years!
Option 2 — return it to Safeway

63. Step Two
Identify Stakeholders
Safeway — its their property
You! — You’ll enjoy it! You don’t have
the time to drive back to Safeway
Friends —they will enjoy it!

64. Step Three
Identify Rules & Laws
Civil Law — it’s shoplifting
Social Law — don’t ask, don’t tell
Natural Law — alcohol is not healthy

65. Step Three
Identify Rules & Laws
Biblical Law — Thou Shalt not steal

66. Step Four
Argue Option 1
Don’t ask, Don’t tell
The joy you bring to your friends will
override any guilt you have for not
paying.

67. Step Four
Argue Option 1
We must use our time wisely
“Make the best use of the time,
because the days are evil”
(Eph. 5:16)

68. Step Five
Argue Option 2
Drive back to Safeway,
Return the bottle
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Exodus 20:15

69. Step Six
Present Your Argument
Return the bottle of champagne
because (1) You can bless your
friends another way, (2) Your time
belongs to God, not yourself, and …

70. Step Six
Present Your Argument
Alcohol has calories, sugar, is not
healthy, and one of your friends might
get drunk, drive home and die in a car
accident, leave their child motherless,
and that will been your conscious forever

71. Step Seven
Christian Worldview
God created men and women in His
image. Stealing diminishes His image
God created men and women to honor
Him. Stealing does not honor Him

72. Case Study #2
Gas Prices & Drilling in Arctic

73. Step One
De
fi
ne the Dilemma

74. Wealth or Environment
1. Russia attacked Ukraine

75. Wealth or Environment
1. Russia attacked Ukraine
2. US sanctioned Russia,
stopped buying oil

76. Wealth or Environment
1. Russia attacked Ukraine
2. US sanctioned Russia,
3. Oil prices spiked, in
fl
ation
skyrocketed, Americans are
su
ff
ering

77. Wealth or Environment
1. Russia attacked Ukraine
2. US sanctioned Russia,
3. Oil prices spiked, in
fl
ation
4. We can drill in the Arctic

78. Wealth or Environment
1. Russia attacked Ukraine
2. US sanctioned Russia,
3. Oil prices spiked, in
fl
ation
4. We can drill in the Arctic
5. But we will endanger wildlife