What is involved in conducting an initial assessment? What is required to obtain accurate results from such an assessment and what questions may be helpful to consider?

 i have no questions yet, just doing this for the requirement 

• For example: Abortion; Biomedical Issues (IVF, Stem Cell Research, etc.); Capital Punishment; Church-State Relations; Economics; Environment; Euthanasia; Just War; LGBTQ Issues; Marriage & Family; Healthcare; Political Engagement; Poverty; Racism and Race Issues; Sexual Ethics, etc.

Second, based on the ethical theory you defended in Discussion: Compare and Contrast Metaethical Theories, formulate an ethical application on this specific issue in a thread. You are expected to use both textbooks as well as outside academic sources to support your analysis and argument. As you write your thread, consider the following flow for your essay:

1. Step 1: Briefly summarize what theory you defended in Discussion: Compare and Contrast Metaethical Theories and what applied issue you are addressing in this discussion. If you have changed your mind on which theory from Discussion: Compare and Contrast Metaethical Theories you think is stronger, you may write an application for the theory you NOW think is the stronger theory. For example, if you defended Egoism and now think a Christian ethical theory is stronger, you may apply a Christian ethical theory.
2. Step 2: Articulate a detailed application based on your theory. This should be the bulk of your thread.
3. Step 3: Briefly describe a strong counterargument to your application and respond to it. For now, keep it brief (no more than one paragraph). In the Capstone Essay Assignment, you will have more room to elaborate

At least 500–600 words, The student must then post 1 reply of at least 500–600. For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least 1 scholarly citation in Turabian format. Each reply must incorporate at least 1 scholarly citation in Turabian format. Biblical references are highly encouraged, but will not count as an academic source.

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Read the trolly problem’s summary then answer the four questions:

Summary:

Thought experiments are imagined cases that we can use to aid our reasoning about moral theories and principles. One of the most famous thought experiments, popularized in the 1970s, is the trolley problem': Imagine that the driver of a trolley has passed out at the wheel, and his trolley is hurtling out of control down the track.Straight ahead are five people on the track. They are in a narrow pass and cannot escape in time. If the trolley reaches them, they will surely be villed.Fortunately, you are standing next to a lever,which you can pull in order to send the trolley down a side-track.however you realize that a single person is on the side-track, also unable to escape. Pulling the lever will save the five people on the main track but will result in the death of the single person on the side-track. Time is running out. You ask yourself: should i pull the lever?” The trolly problem has been criticized by some for being too silly and unrealistic to help us understand real world moral problems. However I thought experiment has received renewed attention due to developments and self -driving vehicle technology. There are parallels between the dilemma posed by the trolley problem and real-life situations that self driving cars should pose. for example, a drive this car may need to decide what to do, if faced with a choice between colliding with another vehicle or a swerving into a crowd of people.Engineers may need to decide how to program self driving cars to behave in these life -and -death situations.

Questions:

1. What is your response to the trolley problem? Are you morally permitted to pull the lever? Are you morally required to pull it? Defend your answers.

2. How should engineers program self-driving cars to behave in scenarios like the trolley problem?

3. There is a variant of the trolley problem that asks you to imagine that you are standing on the footbridge, looking down as a trolley hurtles towards the five people tied to the track. An extremely large man is standing next to you on the bridge. If you push him off the bridge, his large body will stop the trolley. The large man will be killed, but the five people tied to the track will be saved what is the morally right thing to do in this case , and why? if it’s wrong to push the large man, is it also wrong to pull the lever?

4. Do you think though experiments like the trolley problem can help us understand the nature of morality? Why or why not?