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I agree with Haidt that most moral arguments are useless.  People are not going to hear an argument that goes completely against their gut instinct and think "wow, this person is right."  Therefore, our current papers on an ethical dilemma can't just be us forcing our opinion onto our reader.  No matter how right I think my moral point of view is, it is useless to argue.  So, similar to Emily's posting, I believe that compromise is the most important part of answering an ethical dilemma.  There needs to be aspects of the solution that everybody can understand and agree with, regardless of moral intuitions.  However, I’m not sure that anything can really be “solved.”  Isa, Anna and I struggled with how to solve our ethical dilemma.  Instead, we decided to shock everyone’s moral argument with practical arguments put into the extreme.