PLN-08 Ethics Under Pressure

PLN-08: Ethics Under Pressure

Decision-Making Before the Crisis

Course Overview, One Page

A single printable page covering what PLN Series teaches, the 8 lessons, what you need before starting, and the doctrinal sources behind the method. Useful for deciding whether the course is for you, or for handing to somebody in your group who is weighing it up.

Why This Course

BLUF: PLN-08 gets people to reason through disaster ethics dilemmas — resource allocation, medical scope of authority, end-of-life care, use of force, and group authority — before an event forces the decision, using discussion rather than prescribed answers. It covers these dilemmas as they shift across event scale, recovery horizon, and household composition, and produces a personal or MAG position paper as its capstone. It does not teach clinical medical protocols, use-of-force tactics, legal liability analysis, or MAG governance mechanics — those stay owned by MED, SEC, and OPS-01 respectively.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Recognize the value tension in a disaster ethics dilemma without needing it pointed out
  • Explain how your answer would change under different scale, horizon, and household conditions
  • Distinguish capability from training from authorization in a medical-response context
  • Articulate your own, or your MAG’s, pre-considered position on allocation, medical scope, force threshold, and authority — in writing, before an event requires it

Lessons

01

Why Think About This Now

Sets up the three lenses and three axes — scale, horizon, household — used throughout the course.

02

Feeding People: Allocation Ethics

Three rationing logics, the horizon trap, and who’s actually asking at the door.

03

Medical Help: How Much, For Whom, By What Authority

Capability, training, and authorization — and what disappears when oversight does.

04

Care for the Dying: The Limits of Intervention

“We can’t” versus “we won’t,” and who has standing to decide.

05

Security, Force, and the Shifting Threshold

Why the acceptable use of force moves as social order degrades.

06

Authority, Consent, and Dissent Inside the Group

A MAG leader’s fiduciary-style duty and the noncompliant-member problem.

07

Scale, Horizon, and Household: Running the Grid

Re-runs earlier dilemmas across combinations of all three axes at once.

08

Building Your Position Before the Event

Capstone: a written position on allocation, medical scope, force, and authority.

How This Course Works

Format Discussion-based, not a quiz on rules. Every scenario has real tension in more than one direction, and no lesson hands you a single correct resolution.
Knowledge Checks Each lesson gates on understanding the reasoning behind a framework — not on picking the “correct” moral answer.
The three axes Event scale, recovery horizon, and household composition recur in every lesson and change the weight of a dilemma without changing the dilemma itself.
Capstone Lesson 08 turns the course into a written position paper for your household or MAG, tested against a specific scenario rather than left in the abstract.
Use it as a group The scenarios work as MAG discussion-night material, with or without every participant having completed the online lessons first.

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