TASK 1: INFORMED CONSCIENCE
You have been approached to help traffick children to Africa’s Ivory Coast to work in the cacao fields. They have offered you a reasonable sum of money. You are out of work and cannot support your family at this time.
1. What is the issue and why is it important?
The issue is that I am out of work and therefore, I am unable to support my family. Someone has approached me and has offered me a job with a reasonable amount of pay. However, the job requires me to traffick children to work in the cacao fields. This is an important decision I have to make because if I choose to accept the job, I will be deceiving and forcing children to work in poor conditions, but if I don’t accept the job, I will be unable to support my family.
2. Who will be affected by the decision?
The people who will be affected by the decision include my family, the children who are trafficked and myself.
3. What are the possible choices, and what are the likely consequences of each one?
If I choose to accept the job, I will be sending many children to slavery and harmful working conditions. These children will have to work in horrifying environments where they are underpaid and treated unfairly. However, if I don’t accept…show more content… The Seventh Commandment says, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.” It forbids us from mispresenting the truth in our relations with others. Thus, if I was to traffick children, I would be deceiving them by promising them a good life, but in reality, they would be working in horrible conditions. The Fifth Beatitude states, “Blessed are the Merciful.” To be merciful, I would not traffick the children and enslave them to continuous labour. Instead, I would have to refuse the job to be merciful to the
