The course will present selected societal issues and elicit discussion. Topics will be relevant to today's world, but will be fictional and derived from the second book of a published trilogy. Situations explored in the novel will be introduced and highlight the options involved and rationale for decisions. Although fictional, the situations parallel situations that we face in the world today. We can benefit from thinking in advance about how we, and society, should respond to similar difficult ethical situations. This class follows a similar course from spring of 2022, but that prior class is not a prerequisite.