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Ethical Dilemma Scholarly Peer-review Journal

 An ethical dilemma or ethical paradox is a decision-making problem between two possible moral imperatives, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. The complexness arises out of the situational conflict within which obeying would lead to transgressing another. Generally known as moral paradoxes in ethics, moral dilemmas could also be invoked to refute associate moral system or ethical code, or to boost it thus on resolve the contradiction in terms.   A runaway self-propelled vehicle is heading down the tracks toward five workmen are killed if the self-propelled vehicle takes on its gift course you are on a footbridge over the tracks that are in between the approaching trolley and the five workmen. Next to you on this overcrossing happen to be terribly fat. If you are doing nothing the self-propelled vehicle can proceed, inflicting the deaths of the 5 workmen. The sole thanks to save the lives of those workmen is to push this alien off the bridge and onto the tracks below, wherever his fat body can stop the self-propelled vehicle, inflicting his death. Do you have to push the stranger onto the tracks so as to avoid wasting the 5 workmen? • Abortion dialogue • Graded absolutism • Samaritan's perplexity • Suicide • Adultery • Euthanasia

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