An ethical decision that I was faced with was during the war in Operation Iraqi Freedom. I was a howitzer section chief assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. As a young staff sergeant, I had seven soldiers assigned to my section and I was responsible for their well-being and day to day operations. My unit was assigned to Mosul where our mission was to protect the ancient ruins and weapon caches from the enemy as well as looters. The city was under curfew and it was expressed to the residents of Mosul that no one could have more than 500 dinar (Iraqi currency) on their person at one time. If caught with more than 500 dinar, it would be confiscated and returned to the cities general funds. If someone was caught …show more content…
Their house was two bedrooms, about two hundred square feet, and constructed of clay. The father who was a farmer had lost his job once the war started and they did not have a source of income. They lived off what meat and vegetables that the father could gather during the day as well as any extra rations that we had from our meals and from the care packages that our loved ones sent us. One day while on patrol, we ended up arresting several looters in one location. During our inventory of their belongings, we noticed that the looters had several thousand dinars amongst all of them. One of my soldiers recommended to me that instead of turning the money in as directed, we should give it to the family that we had grown to love and enjoyed visiting. As a leader of my men and knowing my duties and obligations to our mission, I was in an ethical dilemma. After weighing my options of turning in the money as directed by my unit or giving it to the family that was desperately in need of the funds, and taking a team vote of what we want to do, I chose to give it to the family. I felt that that even though it was a pretty significant amount of money, it would better suit the family that was in dire needs of assistance for their young
At times in a person’s life, they might come across a few situations that leave them with a major decision between two or more options that challenge what they believe or what they might think is wrong or right. These are known as ethical dilemmas. Be it seeing a friend steal something and choosing between being honest and speaking up or letting it go. It can also be getting paid more than you earned and deciding if you’re going to be greedy and keep the money or return it. We run into these situations in our lives, some bigger and more influential on our destiny’s while others are small with no real consequences.
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An ethical decision that I was faced with within my professional career was about a month ago. I’m a dental assistant so I work with people every day and I have to deal with people and their personal bias. I had a patient that was underage and she come into the operatory by herself. I asked the patient did she have a guardian with her and she said “yes”, and she started to inform me that her grandfather didn’t like African American people. At that point I was faced with an ethical dilemma to not inform her grandfather about the treatment or to faced her grandfather, that I knew didn’t care for African American people. The problem was very difficult because I didn’t know how her grandfather was going to react toward me as a professional person.
At 7:00am when the planes were taking off Eileen was giving birth. When the actual event of September 11, 2001 was happening Bob and Eileen where resting, sleeping, eating and generally trying to figure out what to do with their new baby. They spent many hours being wrapped up in the cocoon of being new parents, well the nurses tiptoed in and out of the room checking up on them.
The United States launched an operation known as Operation Desert Shield, also known as the Persian Gulf War, in August of 1990 in response to Saddam Hussein’s order to the Iraqi forces to take over Kuwait. President George Herbert Walker Bush made the decision to send American troops to Saudi Arabia to form an international coalition that would eventually turn into an operation known as Operation Desert Storm. The United States Army had not witnessed an event of such international and Homefront importation since the Cold War.
An ethical dilemma is defined as a moral issue, where a situation has two equivalent undesirable alternatives and neither choice will resolve the ethical predicament.
This is a historical examination of the first battle fought for Fallujah, Iraq: Operation Vigilant Resolve. We will examine the history, location, composition, and social background of Fallujah. Analysis of Operation Vigilant Resolve will identify participating units, basic strategy, why Vigilant Resolve failed and lessons learned. Most scholars agree that future battlefields will be urbanized; with lessons learned from this operation we will be better suited for similar, future conflicts.
Ethics is an important proponent when considering any decision. Knowing the difference between right and wrong is something everyone should know. However, the importance of ethics gets minimized when a decision that seems wrong actually has benefits. In the efforts of improving society, often ethics is violated. Sometimes in order for society to be better off as a whole, there has to be little sacrificing of ethical practices along the way to do so.
Ethical decision making is the process of deciding what someone believes is morally right or wrong in a situation. Our decisions may be based on our feelings and knowledge of what we believe is morally right. Sometimes, the moment or circumstance can have an impact on the decisions that we make.
When told to face a morally indifferent decision between personal gain and the preservation of life, most would say that they would choose anything against personal gain. In reality, the situation is grey. It depends on the decisions and the type of dilemma you are faced with rather than the simple black and white point of view. As an example, the story arc for Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars Prequels. He was faced with a complex decision between preserving the Jedi lifestyle and the temptation of the Dark Side.
The iterative process of operational design facilitated the change in the definition of the problem and the reframing of the operational approach that resulted in the surge that would eventually provide a more secure Iraq. This paper will evaluate the planning for the Iraq war and the subsequent reframing by General Petraeus.
Imagine waking up to the sound of screams and gunfire. On August 8, 1998, the Taliban brutally attacked the city of Mazar-i Sharif. The Taliban had been fighting a war with an ethnic group called the Hazaras, a group of predominantly Shiite people in northern/central Afghanistan, because they were not Muslim. This attack took place to avenge the Taliban by capturing, raping, and killing all of the Hazaras. The Mazar-i Sharif massacre was a result of religious discrimination in the Middle East.
The ethical dilemma Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy faced was what to do with the three goat herders. Lt. Michael Murphy was dropped into the mountains along the Afghan-Pakistan border along with three other Navy Seals. Their mission was to study Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Not long after their arrival the mission was compromised by the three goat herders who found them hiding in bushes. The predicament over how to handle the goat herders spiked the ethical dilemma. Should they tie them up and run for it, let them go or ultimately kill them? They eventually let the herders go and found themselves outnumbered by an overwhelming Taliban force.
While our organization prides itself in a well-defined and thorough code of ethics, there are occasions where situations arise, but the solution is not clearly defined within our code. In such a case, it is critical to develop a decision making framework that allows our employees to make a decision while operating within the moral guidelines of our corporation. In the hope that we can eliminate discrepancies, Royal Dutch Shell has created an ethical decision strategy that will make clear the ethical standings of our corporation and ensure a consistent decision making process. Our decision making process is focused on our stakeholders, and how we can maximize their benefit.
Everyone in this world has experienced an ethical dilemma in different situations and this may arise between one or more individuals. Ethical dilemma is a situation where people have to make complex decisions and are influenced based on personal interests, social environment or norms, and religious beliefs (“Strategic Leadership”, n.d.). Leaders and managers in the company should set guidelines to ensure employees are aware and have a better chance to solve and make ethical decisions. Employees are also responsible for understanding their ethical obligations in order to maintain a positive work environment. The purpose of this case study is to identify the dilemma and analyze different decisions to find ways on how a person should act ethically when left with an ethical dilemma.