Discussion About a Moral Point of View on the Film "Sophie’s Choice"

1. In the novel (and film)Sophie’s Choice, a young woman with two small children arrives at a concentration camp and is presented with a terrible choice.She can choose one of her children to be saved from the gas chamber, in which case the other child will die (Option A); or she can refuse to choose between the two children, in which case both of them will die (Option B). Two philosophystudents, Archie and Betty, are discussing which option is better from a moralpoint of view. Archie thinks that Option A is morally preferable to Option B, whereas Betty thinks that Option B is morally preferable to Option A. Drawing on one or more of the normative ethical theories we’ve discussed in the course(consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics), write a philosophical dialogue between Archie and Betty in which each character tries to convince the other of the superiority of his or her position.