Performing this exercise on gut-feel alone and no prior guidance provides a starting baseline from which students can trace the evolution of their ethical decision making.
A suggestion: Have students count off 1-5.
Have all the respective students with the same number regroup.
Assign each of the 5 scenarios to the respective groups.
Give the students 10-15 minutes to work individually in order to answer their respective scenario.
Then ask the students to form 3-5 person small groups among students with like numbers.
Give 15-20 minutes for them to formulate a group answer.