This game was so much fun. the game involves a situation where you and a grouop of people are on a ship, and a lifeboat can only hold 5 people. There comes a very hard task of deciding who is going to go on the lifeboats to go get help, and who is going to remain on the ship to wait for help. Although it is so much fun as the members of the group argue and try to make up excuses and stories as to why they should be allowed on the lifeboat, there are very important messages that one learns as the game progresses. These lessons are centred around values clarification. Your values, what you think is important, do you value your life over others and the like. We had an extra interesting element because one of the members was married and the other has a child. The ethical dilemma comes in- does the married woman get on the lifeboat because she is married or has she already had the happiness of getting married, whereas single people should go on the lifeboat so that they canstill have that chance of happiness. It was very interesting once we sat afterwards and thought about how we handled the situation and how different our views would be if we really were in that situation. Personally, I would want to be on that lifeboat because if i did not return, my family at home would be broken. Yet, I try to be selfless. But if put in that situation, i would be tempted to save my life for the sake of my family. A tough call, and i guess we never really know how we are going to react in a very difficult situation unless we are put in that situation.
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