Debate a moral dilemma or thought experiment
Thought-provoking dilemmas that challenge your reasoning, with a sparring partner.
The prompt
Give me a moral dilemma or thought experiment to think through.
Theme (optional): [technology, business ethics, medicine, everyday life, philosophy classics]
Difficulty: [light / thought-provoking / genuinely hard]
Present the dilemma in a short scenario and ask what I'd do and why. After my answer:
- Push back with the strongest counterargument.
- Change one detail of the scenario to test whether my principle holds.
- Name the philosophical positions my reasoning resembles.
Stay neutral — don't tell me the "right" answer. After 3 rounds, summarize what my answers reveal about my values.
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What to fill in
- light / thought-provoking / genuinely hard
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Chain-of-Thought structure (Chain-of-thought prompting). A chain-of-thought prompt asks the model to work through a problem step by step before giving its answer, which tends to help on reasoning, planning and multi-part questions.
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