DISCUSSION ESSAY

Just some things to think about during your discussion:

Your dialogue should address the following ideas, points, and questions:

  1. Do the group’s recommendations minimize the harm while maximizing the good?
  2. Do they compromise fundamental principles? If so, how? Was it necessary? In other words, what factors guided the group’s decisions? Were they biased? Were they fair?
  3. Address ideas on justice and bias and who the recommendations favor
  4. Discuss urban vs rural populations, social and economic status, questions of age, race, and ethnicity, questions of health and pre-existing conditions – what took the highest priority?
  5. What covert biases did you see? How would you argue differently than your peers?