In pursuing the benefit of the doubt, we often forget to be realistic and put ourselves in a lot of unnecessary trouble. This is especially evident in the culture of gambling and is shown in the first season of the TV series Psych in the seventeenth episode, “Poker? I Barely Know Her!” In this episode, the story of a young man named Brandon Peterson who gets involved in poker and loses a substantial amount of money which causes his life to go dramatically down hill. The beginning of the episode shows a flashback of Shawn Spencer when he was a young boy about seven or eight playing poker with a group of middle aged men, and to the audience's surprise, he is winning. A few minutes later his father walks in disappointed. This is the conversation …show more content…
An example of an ethical issue that is shown is when Brandon has the audacity to steal a large amount of money from his own father not once, but twice. It is widely believed that stealing is not an accepted behavior, even more so when stealing from a higher authority. Cheating, which is also ethically wrong, is also seen in this episode when Burger cheats in order to win against Brandon and many others. This lying behavior is what started Brandon on his downhill spiral to financial trouble. An example of an appeal to emotion is shown at the beginning of the episode when Mr. Peterson does not want to bring his son straight to the police. This shows his care for his son and also his regret that he had let the situation get so drastically out of hand. Shame was shown by both the father and the son, the father that he cannot trust his son anymore, and the son hides from his father because he is ashamed of his actions and wanted to fix the problem before seeing his dad again. This clearly proves that gambling is a negative behavior and can cause problems in
When the man and boy meet people on the road, the boy has sympathy for them, but his father is more concerned with keeping them both alive. The boy is able to get his father to show kindness to the strangers (McCarthy), however reluctantly the kindness is given. The boy’s main concern is to be a good guy. Being the good guy is one of the major reasons the boy has for continuing down the road with his father. He does not see there is much of a point to life if he is not helping other people. The boy wants to be sure he and his father help people and continue to carry the fire. The boy is the man’s strength and therefore courage, but the man does not know how the boy worries about him how the boy’s will to live depends so much on his
There were thoughts about how his father might be a burden on him, and might even get him beaten or killed, but that didn't change a thing.... ... middle of paper ... ... To his deep shame, he did not cry.
These ethical dilemmas were a big part of the story novel and caused most of the conflict that arose in the novel. One of the ethical dilemmas was David telling the nurse to bring his daughter to an Institution. By making that decision to send his daughter away based on his past experience with his sick sister and assumption about how the future will be. This connects to the ethical topic of techniques of neutralization by Joseph Heath. He uses an excuse to prove that his decision wasn’t unethical when it really was. According to the Denial of responsibility technique, he believed that he had no choice in sending Phoebe away, David saw it as the only option because he was so focus on his past experience. He imagined what Phoebe’s life would be like and the likely toll of caring for her would have on the family. Caused him to see Phoebe as a threat, with only one option to solve the
Ethics is a topic that is argued about a lot in today's modern society. Ethics are the bases of standards of what is right and wrong that tell what humans should or shouldn't do. In the story "Flowers For Algernon", Charlie Gordon is a mentally disabled thirty seven year-old man who has difficulty learning and comprehending. Two doctors decide to offer a surgery to Charlie that could change his life forever. The experimental surgery would supposedly help his intelligence level. Charlie Gordons' doctors did not act ethically when they performed the experiment to improve his intelligence.
Ethics have been the principles that shape individual lives in modern society. It is a subjective idea that seems to have a standard in society. Ethics and morals are the major factors that guide individuals to make right and wrong choices. Something that is morally right to one person might be the very opposite of what another person will view as right. There are many factors that can trigger a change in an individual’s view of morality. These factors might be personal and self-centred, while others might be for the “general good”. In the 1994 movie, “Quiz Show” by Robert Redford, Charles Van Doren, a university professor from a very respectable family is faced with a decision that goes against his ethics and morals. Herb Stempel also faces difficult ethical decisions from the producers of the show, Twenty-One, just like Charles Van Doren, which could have affected his whole life. Richard Goodwin also had his own view of morality and his views did not change throughout the movie. Robert Redford in the movie Quiz Show shows that ethics play a decisive role when individuals respond to competing demands.
The adrenaline-rushing feeling of gambling offers people the idea that opportunity lies within their hands. Unfortunately, there are far too many consequences to gambling to even begin to count. To win you must play, and to win big you must play big. As more gamblers can recall their losses rather than their winnings, gamblers are often dealt with poor hands and must play the risky game to stay alive. Even though gambling has so many faults, some still fall under its corruptions because of gambling’s deceiving fallacies.
“Dad says, nonsense there are plenty of things for shawn and me to do .” (77)Paul didn't feel comfortable leaving dad and shawn alone for the whole day because of the way his dad has been talking about shawn. Once they got back his dad tried to call paul “pauly” and paul corrected him and got angry with his dad. Dad “Whips the van into the driveway and slams the door. I make sure to do the same making sure to slam my door at least as hard and loud as he did.” (84)Through the time his dad came back paul had trouble accepting his dad back into the family. Little did shawn realize that he is very much like his
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"The heart pills are dices in my father 's hand, gambler who needs cash by the first of the month" from here we can see that the writer is referring his father as a gambler, who is gambling with his health and the crucial reality that he has to work for rent. through comparing his father with a gambler is a great way to show the difficulties his father is going through. the second simile is "Heart hammering like the fist of a man at the door with an eviction notice" here the speaker indicating his father 's heart beating as an angry fist striking the door, which shows the father 's frustration: working under bad heart condition or evicting by the landlord. The last stanza has the father as a guitar being played in the son 's hands. Here the speaker is dreaming his father is guitar which infers the writer 's wish that his father could be a guitar so that he can be the player who decides how and what to do to protect the
“She’s so mean and stuck up.” People acknowledge my independence as threatening or intimidating. I don’t have to rely on others for my happiness. I wont be dishonest or sugar coat things to make you accept me. I don’t tolerate ignorance or disrespect from anyone. Nor will your opinions affect or mold me as an individual.
With so much money at stake, the average gambler does not stand a chance. against this big business. The casinos go to every length to analyze what makes a gambler bet, stay longer, and lose as much money as possible. Gamblers who come to casinos with the intention of winning money are habitually disappointed in the snare. As casino crime lord, Meyer Lansky's universal.
I have to look at what the ethical values are being put up against, whether that may be ethical values or other than ethical values. In this particular situation, ethical values are not being put up against other than ethical values. Although ethical values are not up against other than ethical values, it is definitely that they are up against ethical values. I know this because I am stuck between friendship and sexual assault; the two definitely put me in a tough situation, which makes it ethical values against ethical values. I have to look at the pillars of character and decide which is the greatest good between the two ethical values.
At first the relationship between a father and his son can be perceived as a simple companionship. However, this bond can potentially evolve into more of a dynamic fitting relationship. In The Road The Man and his son have to depend on one another because they each hold a piece of each other. The Man holds his sons sense of adulthood while the son posses his father’s innocence. This reliance between the father and son create a relationship where they need each other in order to stay alive. “The boy was all that stood between him and death.” (McCarthy 29) It is evident that without a reason to live, in this case his son, The Man has no motivation to continue living his life. It essentially proves how the boy needs his father to love and protect him, while the father needs the boy to fuel ...
Life threatening situations can be some of the most difficult situations that one can go through. During these types of situations moral lines can be blurred in such ways that what one may think is right for that situation is not actually a moral solution that one should do. In the case of the Heinz dilemma what is verses what isn’t moral is a hard decision to make. In the case of Heinz I feel personally that there were two wrong-doings that were done in order that one right-doing could be achieved. The shop owner was in the wrong for over pricing a drug and refusing to help Mr. Heinz ailing wife, but at the same time Mr. Heinz was in the wrong for stealing from the drug dealer. At the same time he was only forced into that situation due to