quarantine dilemma theme
Some people carry an infectious and undesirable, typically deadly, condition and we are asked what measures the rest of society is ethically justified in taking in order to protect itself from those that are infected but innocent of any wrongdoing.
11 total · 2 choice · 3 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ent3x03 | choice | Were they justified in quarantining Loque'eque to save their own people? |
| ent4x11 | choice | Archer must balance the his obligation to cure Tucker and Hoshi of a contagious disease with his obligation to not let the contagion spread to the rest of the crew. |
| ent4x16 | major | General Krell was ordered to destroy a Klingon colony in order to prevent a plague from spreading to other Klingon worlds. |
| movie: The Alpha Incident (1978) | major | Dr. Sorensen singlehandedly held a a handful of people in small rural community under quarantine after someone there got exposed to the microorganism. |
| movie: The Crazies (1973) | major | We are made to ponder whether the military was justified in quarantining the people of Evans City against their will. |
| ent4x15 | minor | The Klingons began massacring those infected by the man-made plague in an effort to slow the spreading of the contagion. |
| futurama6x24 | minor | The decision to shrink wrap Manhattan to quarantine it was not taken lightly: the preferred solution was piranhas. |
| movie: Plague (1979) | minor | The people of the city from where the M3 bacteria originated was put on quarantine. There was some minor discussion over whether this was ethical. |
| movie: Rabid (1977) | minor | A reporter questioned a World Health Organization official about whether the organization was in the right in declaring Montreal a quarantine zone. |
| movie: The Blob (1988) | minor | Dr. Meddows put Arborville under quarantine. |