ASSESSMENT 03
CHILD LABOUR
60% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the DRC. Significant amounts of this is
mined under appalling conditions often by child labourers.” My personal opinion on
this statement is most closely described by:
A. What’s cobalt got to do with to me?
B. The DRC is a long way from where I live so I don’t really care.
C. This is just a fact of global supply chains and necessary for global economic
growth, which is in everyone’s best interest.
D. I wonder who is profiting out of this?
E. It breaks my heart to see children exploited. This is morally wrong and must not
be allowed.
Step 1: Set the scene
Looking at the images of ‘child poverty’ reminds me that poverty is an ancientreality, with especially
cruel effects on children. It has been common acrosscultures, worst in hard times, when poverty means
life and death.
Step 2:
1. Which is the most likely utilitarian option in the multiple choice question above?
E is the most likely utilitarian option (E. It is morally unacceptable for a single child to die of a
preventable disease and we should collectively fix this irrespective of the cost.
2. Why do you say this?;
CHILD LABOUR
60% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the DRC. Significant amounts of this is
mined under appalling conditions often by child labourers.” My personal opinion on
this statement is most closely described by:
A. What’s cobalt got to do with to me?
B. The DRC is a long way from where I live so I don’t really care.
C. This is just a fact of global supply chains and necessary for global economic
growth, which is in everyone’s best interest.
D. I wonder who is profiting out of this?
E. It breaks my heart to see children exploited. This is morally wrong and must not
be allowed.
Step 1: Set the scene
Looking at the images of ‘child poverty’ reminds me that poverty is an ancientreality, with especially
cruel effects on children. It has been common acrosscultures, worst in hard times, when poverty means
life and death.
Step 2:
1. Which is the most likely utilitarian option in the multiple choice question above?
E is the most likely utilitarian option (E. It is morally unacceptable for a single child to die of a
preventable disease and we should collectively fix this irrespective of the cost.
2. Why do you say this?;
