moral dilemma

On October 13th, we discussed moral dilemma.
There was a mad man who hid bombs. He was in court, but he did not say anything about where he hid bombs. If the bombs exploded, hundreds of people will die. Also, time limit is short. Polices wanted the man to tell the place where he put the bombs. However, he had a against self-incrimination. Officials thought the last way to make him say the truth. It was torture to his wife. Of course, she was innocent, but they thought there was no way beside it.
The question was “Do you agree with doing torture to his innocent wife?” I disagree with the idea, because I do not think torture to his innocent wife is not certain way to know the place of bombs. Ordinary men would feel guilty if their wives were done torture. However, the man was mad, so it is possible that he does not feel anything, and he does not understand that his wife’s situation. If the wife die and the mad man did not say anything, it has no means. More importantly, the wife is innocent. Doing torture to innocent people is guilty.
I think that officials have to search by themselves. In my group, all of us were disagree with the idea. We changed our each opinion, and told an\bout new way to find the bombs. As a result, our group decided to use polygraph. We hear the man “Did you hide here?” with a map, and choose the area. There are not enough time to explode the bombs. So, I think it is the best way.

about discussion

On December 17th, we discussed “discussion”.
The panels were Azusa, Jeff, Shiori, and Kazue.
Satoko is English department student. Malcolm studied literature in NY. Jun is a English department student. Masako is a strict teacher.
Moderator said that there were 2points for good discussion. So, we discussed those 2points. The one is “Achievement to consensus”. Masako and Satoko were for to reach consensus without insisting our opinion. Masako said that they learned how to reach the consensus and it was the most important thing. On the other hand, Jun and Malcolm were against the opinion. Malcolm said that some people had strong opinions, but other people did not have. He expected all the people had idea equally, so gathering all people’s ideas were important.
Good opinions have logic and reasons from someone. Discussion is to come up to the best answer. So, good opinion is important for discussion. To the answer, I think it is true. If we discuss and there are no good answers, we can not find consensus and can not end the discussion. So, I think that this idea is very basically thing.
Next, we talked about audience’s opinion. Malcolm said that not all audiences have to say their opinions, because there are many people who have no confidence.
On the other hand, Jun said all audiences should say their opinion.
I think there are many people who are not good at telling their opinions easily. In fact, I am not good at speaking. So, I suggested the idea in this discussion. Malcolm said trying is important. When I heard these words, I thought it was true. So, I think every audience should try to voice in the discussion.