Personal Morality Essay

Morality can be vaguely defined as the extent to which is right or wrong. The word and the concept are hard to define as it means a different thing to people. History has many theories on morality, which only lends validity to the fact that morality is a personal definition of one’s values and concepts of right and wrong. For example, the debate on abortion has been raging for decades with no end in sight any time soon. One of the reasons that this debate is so heated is that some people find abortion to be inherently immoral. They find that taking any life is unjustifiable. Others believe that it is a woman’s choice and that since the other life is dependent upon the living woman, it should be no one’s choice but her own. We all have

In regards to public relations, ethics can quickly get murky. When practicing public relations, your job is to speak on behalf of a company and to put them in a positive light. This year saw some major upsets and failures in regards to public relations. The most talked about instance was the way in which United Airlines handled an overbooking situation. In this scenario, a customer was forcibly removed from a plane and knocked unconscious. By applying my personal moral theory, United Airlines, and any similar airline, could’ve escaped the brunt of this criticism. Under my personal theory, a passenger wouldn’t be removed in the first place. Forcibly removing a passenger for the sake of another simply isn’t worth it. Not only would the company alienate several customers due to the policy, but it has the potential to escalate into a dangerous situation, as it did with United Airlines earlier this year. The problem, however, with my personal theory of morality is that it takes the feelings of others far too much into account. As a public relations specialist, it would be my duty to help United Airlines. Yet as a decent individual with her own moral code, it would be hard to compartmentalize the two and even harder to decide which duty takes