Teaching Moral Theories Using Lone Survivor

Barry L. Boyd (Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, & Communications, Texas A&M University, 222 AGLS, College Station, TX 77843-2116)

Journal of Leadership Education

ISSN: 1552-9045

Article publication date: 15 January 2015

Issue publication date: 15 January 2015

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Abstract

Four members of SEAL Team 10 faced a moral dilemma during Operation Redwings in 2005. Their mission was compromised when three goat herders discovered their position. They had to decide if they should kill the herders and continue their mission or release them, thus terminating their mission unsuccessfully. Students in an applied ethics class were asked which moral theories applied to their eventual decision.

Citation

Boyd, B.L. (2015), "Teaching Moral Theories Using Lone Survivor", Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 188-192. https://doi.org/10.12806/V14/I1/A1

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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