These are questions of a different sort — questions about you. They are about your values, your beliefs, and your life: love, money, integrity, generosity, pride, and death. Discuss the questions to find out more about yourself and others, and to confront ethical dilemmas in a concrete rather than an abstract form.

Sample questions from the book:

1. Do you think that the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
2. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world?
3. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living?
4. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by five years to become extremely attractive?
5. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?
6. You discover that your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to buy antibiotics for cats online exchange the child to try to correct the mistake?
7. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire; after saving your family members and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be?

To English teachers

You are teaching a bored class; you have 20 minutes left from the class time and have no idea how to fill that time. Well, we’ve all been there. Get this book, choose suitable questions for your class, and your students will start a heated discussion you can hardly stop!