Value Scenarios #29 1. Your family moves to a nearby town at the beginning of your senior year. The move means you're officially required to attend a different high school. Your aunt Sue, who lives in your former town, is willing to let you falsely list her address as your own so that you can graduate with your friends. Would you do it?

Not only is it lying, its fraud Fraud - criminal deception; An unlawful deception deliberately practiced; a cheat, a false pose, an impostor. Fraud - criminal deception; An unlawful deception deliberately practiced; a cheat, a false pose, an impostor. Basically, any person who knowingly and willfully embezzles, misapplies, steals, or obtains by fraud, false statement, or forgery, or fails to refund any funds, assets or property provided or insured under Title IV is subject to a fine of not more than $20,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. Basically, any person who knowingly and willfully embezzles, misapplies, steals, or obtains by fraud, false statement, or forgery, or fails to refund any funds, assets or property provided or insured under Title IV is subject to a fine of not more than $20,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.

2. You've been awarded a $15,000 college scholarship on the condition that you have a B average this semester. Without the scholarship, you won't be able to go to your first-choice college. You're not doing well in physics class. While you're meeting with your teacher to discuss the situation, she has to leave the room to take a phone call. There's a folder on her desk marked "Physics Final," and it's full of copies of the test. Would you take a copy?

Taking the exam is stealing and cheating as well as violating a trust with the teacher How many of you wouldn’t take the exam because you would be afraid of getting caught, not because its wrong? How many of you wouldn’t take the exam because you would be afraid of getting caught, not because its wrong? If you were interviewing for a job and were qualified, but you found out another candidate beat you out because they somehow received the questions for the interview and were able to prepare for those questions how would you feel? If you were interviewing for a job and were qualified, but you found out another candidate beat you out because they somehow received the questions for the interview and were able to prepare for those questions how would you feel?

#3 You play on your high school's basketball team and you've made it to the state championship. The whole school-make that the whole town-is excited. All season the coach has maintained strict rules for the team, including one that every player must attend practices on time. If they don't, they're benched for the next game. Two days before the big game, two of the team's star players show up an hour late for practice. The coach is furious. If he punishes them, they won't play. But the team needs them in order to win. What should your coach do?

You can make a good argument either way A – Upholding the rules sends a clear message of responsibility and would be best for the team in the long run. If the coach has the rule the coach must enforce it consistently. B – If the two players are benched, it punishes the whole team. Perhaps you bench them for the first half of the game or let them play and bench them for the first game next year. But is this a compromise that places winning over fairness?

#4 You come across a wallet that has $100 in it. It also contains a drivers license in it so it would be easy to get it back to the owner. What do you do?

#5 If you were given 1 million dollars every year for the rest of your life, what would you spend it on? What does this say about your values?

Why are values important? Only you are in charge of your actions, they can be influenced, but you ultimately make the decisions on how you act. As a result, it is your role, responsibility, and duty as a citizen to uphold the values and ethics of rules and laws and proper behavior in society. This is an important and necessary part of participating in government that many take for granted.