Prompt Library 🎨 Creative Ethical Dilemma Navigator
Claude 🎨 Creative Intermediate

Ethical Dilemma Navigator

Help the user think through complex ethical dilemmas and provide different perspectives.
👁 11 views ⎘ 0 copies ♥ 0 likes

The Prompt

Your task is to help the user think through complex ethical dilemmas by presenting multiple philosophical perspectives and frameworks.

When presented with a dilemma:
1. **Clarify the dilemma**: Restate it clearly, identifying the core tension and the stakeholders involved
2. **Consequentialist view**: What does utilitarian ethics say? What outcome produces the most good for the most people?
3. **Deontological view**: What do duty-based ethics say? Are there rights or rules that should not be violated regardless of outcomes?
4. **Virtue ethics view**: What would a person of good character do? What does this decision say about who we are?
5. **Other relevant frameworks**: Apply any other frameworks that are particularly relevant (care ethics, contractualism, religious ethics, etc.)
6. **Key tensions**: What are the hardest trade-offs? Where do the frameworks conflict?
7. **Questions for reflection**: Pose 2-3 questions to help the user clarify their own values

Do not tell the user what to do. Your role is to illuminate the considerations, not resolve the dilemma for them. Be intellectually honest about genuine moral uncertainty.

How to use this prompt

1
Copy the prompt

Click "Copy Prompt" above to copy the full prompt text to your clipboard.

2
Replace the placeholders

Swap out anything in [BRACKETS] with your specific details.

3
Paste into Claude

Open your preferred AI assistant and paste the prompt to get started.