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CHRIsTIAN (MANUAL) 121 9. Do we all agree on what is desirable? 10. Who decides what is desired? 11. Who decides what is desirable? 12. Can you think of something desirable that you do not want? 13. If you answered the previous question, how do you know it is desirable if you do not want it? 14. What is the difference between what we want (desired) and what is desirable? Discussion plan: How should we live?27 1. What is one of the things you most like doing? 2. What is one of most important things in life for you? 3. Would you like to do the same things when you grow up? 4. Do you think that when you grow up, the same things will still be important for you? 5. Are you happy? 6. Would you like to be happy when you grow up? 7. Which role does happiness play in your life? 8. Is there anything more important than happiness? 9. Can we be completely happy? 10. Could you be completely happy in a world where others suffer? 11. Could you be happy even if you caused innocent people harm? 12. Would you prefer to do things that give other people pleasure, or things that relieve their pain? 13. Would you like to live in a way that contributes to a better world? 14. Could you be happy if you had no friends? 15. Could you be happy if everything around you was ugly? 16. Could you be happy if everyone you knew lied constantly and tried to deceive each other? 17. Could you be happy if you could not understand what was happening to you? 18. Would you mind living in a way that everyone thought was good but which seemed bad to you? 19. Would you mind living in a way that everyone thought was wrong but which seemed good to you? Episode 12: To buy or not to buy trainers, that is the question Leading Idea 1: Globalization and fair trade. Global-local ac- tion and consequences We have already presented the global-local dichotomy as related to the shaping of identity and groups. From the cosmopolitan point of view, another important perspective is the relation between acts and consequences in which we, from our local reality, form part of 27 Based on the manual Ethical Inquiry, Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp, Ethical Inquiry. Instruc- tional Manual to Accompany LISA. Boston, University Press of America-IAPC, chapter I, episode 1.