Moral conflict
Conflict arising from competing moral principles, ethical dilemmas, or incompatible values. Moral conflict often has no clear right answer, forcing characters to choose between goods or between good and lesser evils.
Real World
NHS doctors during the Covid-19 pandemic faced a textbook moral conflict: allocating limited ventilators between patients, forced to choose between equally valid lives.
Exam Focus
Avoid stating a character is simply 'good' or 'bad' — identify the competing principles in tension and show why neither is straightforwardly wrong.
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