Simplified Speech #233 – Ethical dilemmas

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Indiana talk about ethical dilemmas. They share everyday tricky situations, like splitting a restaurant bill, switching airplane seats, and seeing someone cheat on a test. You will hear how they think through hard choices, weigh pros and cons, and set healthy boundaries without starting a fight. What you’ll learn with this episode: Clear meanings for key words and phrases used to discuss ethics and choices How to give reasons, agree politely, and disagree respectfully in conversations Useful sentence patterns for sharing opinions and asking follow-up questions Real examples of softening language, like “it depends,” “I feel,” and “maybe” This episode is perfect for you if: You want to speak more confidently about real-life problems and choices You need practical phrases for meetings, classes, and daily life You like clear examples you can copy and use in your own English conversations The Best Way to Learn with This Episode: Culips members get an interactive transcript, helpful study guide, and ad-free audio for this episode. Take your English to the next level by becoming a Culips member. Become a Culips member now: Click here. Members can access the ad-free version: Click here. Join our Discord community to connect with other learners and get more English practice. Click here to join.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another brand new simplified speech episode here at
0:05.0	Culeups.
0:05.8	Simplified speech is our series that features clear, natural, and easy to understand conversations
0:11.6	about an interesting topic.
0:14.6	And today we've got a good one for you, as always, a very interesting one.
0:19.3	I think I'm really interested to see what my co-host is going to say about this topic today
0:26.1	because, yeah, it's going to be interesting to see the psychology of her thoughts and
0:32.4	her opinions on this topic.
0:34.5	Before I go on too much about her, though, I should introduce her to everyone. It's
0:39.5	Indiana. Hey there, Indiana. How's it going? Hey, Andrew. Hey, guys. How are you all doing today?
0:46.2	Indiana, we're going to get inside your mind here for this episode because we're talking about
0:51.7	ethical dilemmas, ethical dilemmas.
0:56.4	And yeah, this is actually rather kind of a high-level topic for simplified speech.
1:02.3	So we should break it down and explain to our listeners here what we mean when we say ethical dilemmas.
1:09.5	Do you want to do the honors and explain it to everyone?
1:13.8	Sure.
1:14.6	I would say that an ethical dilemma is a difficult decision that you're put in throughout life,
1:23.3	you know, different life experiences, bring you into these challenges where you have to decide
1:29.5	what the right thing, what the moral or ethical thing is to do. And it's not easy. It's a dilemma,
1:37.8	which is something where maybe there's two choices and both of them have some pros and cons.
1:45.4	And it's difficult to decide between the two of them. But ethical dilemmas, they're more centered on, what do you
1:50.6	think is the best, the most moral or right thing to do? So it calls to your sense of justice
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