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Task                                                      #Ethical & Moral Reasoning


                 Let us read the given short story on how to make a decision.
                 In a birthday party, Ria got a lot of gifts from her friends. She enjoyed the whole evening playing around
                 with them. At the party there was Clown who entertained all the kids, and the Magician was a great hit
                 with his tricks. One of Ria's cousins had joined from outside India and had gifted her a chocolate specially
                 crafted for her birthday.
                 While the party was mid-way Ria realized that her Special Chocolate was missing, and she raised the issue
                 with her parents. Parents decided that instead of spoiling the party, if the magician can do some trick,
                 which can make finding of the chocolate, fun, instead of spoiling the party.
                 Magician was an intelligent person, so he called all the children around him and said that we will play a
                 trick and take out a special gift from someone’s pocket, which we will gift it to the birthday girl. He told
                 all the kids to sit down in a circle around him. They all sat, except 3 kids who were hesitant. He comforted
                 them and told them to sit next to each other and join the game. He went around asking kids to enact
                 based on his questions and guess what they enacted. After going around, he covered all the kids except
                 the 3 kids who joined later and asked them questions.
                 He asked Joseph what he likes to do the most, perform it with action and he would guess. Joseph made
                 the action of flying with one hand and the magician replied that he likes to fly a plane, and he was right.
                 Next, he asked Robin what he would like to become, showing it with action. Robin enacted the action of
                 shooting in the crawling position, and the magician guessed he likes to join the armed forces and he was
                 correct again.
                 Next, he asked Angel what one activity she does on the weekend and she likes it most. Angel acted as if
                 she was drawing, and the magician guessed that she liked painting.
                 Then the magician ended the game and said that now he is going to pull out a special gift from someone’s
                 pocket and he went to Joseph and asked him to put his hand in his pocket and pull out what is in there.
                 Soon after Joseph had the Special Chocolate in his hand, but it was slightly open from one side. He made
                 Joseph gift it with his own hands to Ria and everyone clapped.
                 Then the parents asked the magician how he found it was Joseph, to which the magician said that the
                 kid who would have picked the chocolate, couldn’t have been able to resist eating it. While he asked the
                 questions to the kids he tried to see into their mouth and chin area to see any traces of chocolate, and he
                 found one under the chin of Joseph.
                 The above scenarios show that it’s the information which helps humans make good decisions.

                 Make Your Choices
                 You are given the option of choosing one hamper out of the given three options. 1st has sample papers
                 of the upcoming exams; the 2nd has reference books and 3rd has free coaching vouchers. Choose wisely
                 and decide which option you would go with and why?


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