During my forty-eight years of life I have encountered many morally ethical decisions. Some decisions I have made ethically and then others I have made just for my own selfish interests. Until recently I have never had to make a decision as hard as the one I am about to explain. To start off I must explain my family situation. My parents who are both in their seventies, myself and two younger sisters. I have one son seventeen, and my sisters also have boys. Michele the one closest in age top mine has a four year-old, and Mandy the youngest has two boys ages seventeen and five. Neither of my sister’s children’s fathers are in their life, which makes me my nephew’s male role model. We have always had a great relationship caring for each …show more content…
She tried every possible treatment that was available. Chemo, bone marrow transplant, any medical possibility that there was she attempted. She would still keep her faith and fight for children. During this whole ordeal we would talk about possibilities if something were to happen to her. She had made me executor to her estate. Stating if anything were to happen to her she would like to be buried, and asked me if I could raise her children. What I failed to mention earlier is that her oldest son is a special need child, and that it left her not having a lot financially. With the needs of her children and the cost of treatments she was actually very much in …show more content…
I changed my living situation so that I could accommodate my nephews moving in with me. The situation was a heavy burden for all of us financially which leads to my morale dilemma. For days I struggled on how I was going to afford my sisters burial the burial that she wanted. This left me with my ethically morale dilemma, do I spend all that I have to bury my sister, get a casket, headstone, burial plot? Or do I just have her cremated? I weighed the option, which were of reason rather than emotion. I still had to survive and make sure that her children were taken care of. I also felt a little angry that she would leave all this for me to do not having a plan of any kind. This all in my mind justified having her remains cremated, and with her ashes I got burial necklaces for her boys to have something of hers to hold on to. The money I saved cremating her remains would leave me in a better place to raise her
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.
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.
Morality can be separated into many entities, one of which being one’s willingness to personally sacrifice for someone else. One’s own mind may factor into one’s decision when put in a difficult situation, a situation as extreme as putting your own well-being on the line for someone else’s. Many people, when asked if they would help others at nearly any cost, would automatically answer yes; however, when faced with this type of hardship, one, more often than not, does what is in their self-interest. That, however, does not define whether one should help others or not. One is morally obligated to sacrifice their well-being for the benefit of another’s.
When I was working as a Customer Service Representative in the Bank, one of my responsibilities was to supervise the tellers. I was friends with two of the tellers working there at the time. We used to go out together outside of work and had great time. At some point I started noticing that they are being too friendly with each other and acting inappropriate for a professional environment. I decided to confront them and they confessed to me that they were dating. That is when I realized that I was faced with an ethical dilemma.
Being a young man, I am rarely subjected to making adverse decisions relating to morality. As I currently stand, my ethical principle has few ill effects, with most unethical acts being petty quarrels with friends and family. Also, I don’t have the life experience that allows me to decide the worth of benefits and the seriousness of various acts. This puts me in a state where my ethical principl...
In the following case, Luke is involved in a very perplexing conflict, or Ethical dilemma. This situation is an Ethical dilemma, and not just a regular “everyday” problem, because to Luke there might not be an obvious answer. He can also be thinking that both choices, keeping his commitments of confidentiality and telling his brother, Owen, are both correct things to do. If Luke tells his brother about the project, then he might concur with a theory known as Breach of confidentiality. “Breach of confidentiality occurs when someone gives away information that was supposed to be kept private.” (GENB4350 Online Lecture, Ethical Reasoning 1). By Luke breaching information that is supposed to be kept secret, he will betray the trust of his company
Many ethical dilemmas are philosophical in nature, an ethical issue can be described as a problem with no clear resolution. In order to solve the issue or dilemma a consensus between the parties involved must be reached. There are several reasons to come to an agreement over an ethical dilemma, it is the basis for all aspects of personal and professional dealings. Each one of us is part of a civilized society and as such it is our responsibility to be rational, honest and loyal in our dealings with others. (Alakavuklar, 2012) states that individuals make decisions for different situations in business life involving various ethical dilemmas. Each time either consciously or unconsciously individuals may follow some ethical approaches
Making good ethical decisions requires a trained sensitivity to ethical issues and a practiced method for exploring the ethical aspects of a decision and weighing the considerations that should impact our choice of a course of action. Having a method for ethical decision making is absolutely essential. When practiced regularly, the method becomes so familiar that we work through it automatically without consulting the specific steps.
No decision procedure – moral decision making is too complicated to have a single criterion for decision
Over the past ten years I have been faced with many ethical dilemmas. One in particular is standing out to discuss with others. It has taken many years to face. In 2008, I went through a breakup that had many different options and a range of many emotions, all at the same time. I lost the love of my life, my children’s father and my friend. In 2010, we went to family court for a custody battle, I will never forget. At that time I was not ready to face a break up, but I had to do what was best for me and my children.
In this assignment we will be identifying an ethical dilemma an individual has experienced. We will begin with a short introduction of what an ethical dilemma is, moving on to providing brief details of the dilemma an individual has experienced. We will then go on to selecting one ethical theory, to show how it can help an individual understand and deal with the situation when placed within, followed by a conclusion.
Introduction Generally, ethics is defined as standards of performance that explain how human beings should opt to react during many circumstances in which they meet with friends, citizens, parents, teachers, children, professionals, and businesspeople, among others. However, ethics is different from feelings, as feelings make significant information’s available for our ethical preferences. Although some people possess highly mature behaviors that cause them to feel awful when they get involved in the wrongdoings, most of the people normally enjoy doing bad things. Ethical decision-making And frequently people will feel uncomfortable when they are mandated to make difficult decisions.
Everyday we are tested as individuals to make the right choice. How we view ourselves as individuals and how others view us are directly correlated to our moral decision-making. But morals are somewhat misleading. What might be a wrong decision for one person might be a solution to another. So how do we define morals? Do we follow Gods’ moral rules because to do so would increase out likelihood of obtaining salvation in the afterlife? Or is it simpler than that. Is God going to deny our entrance into heaven because we have run a stop sign here and there? No. I believe our moral values are much simpler than that. I believe that our moral decision-making comes from our upbringing of what is right or wrong. Our parents and the people we surround ourselves with, are, I believe, direct causes of how we make decisions. Having more positive family influences as we grow up to adults will better help us come to make the right decisions in tough situations. In this paper, I will take you through a situation where my morals were tested. It takes place in the northern woods of Vermont in a little town called St. Albans where a young boy transforms into a young man by controlling his emotions and making the right decision.
Unfortunately, one cannot live without ethics. However, one can and must live with the consequences of the choices that are made based on one’s moral principles. Ultimately, ethics are a set of rules and standards that define and guide a person’s decision making process in his or her personal or professional life (Business Dictionary, 2016). Ethics is what allows an individual to know and distinguish right from wrong. Although, one’s ethics are of great significance, one must also consider that when dealing with ethical behavior, the outcome of any possible decision making process should and must be carefully taken into account. Especially to avoid affecting other people in a negative manner. For this reason, each ethical dilemma or situation must be handle cautiously and
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.