ethical lens statement
Ethical Lens Inventory Statement
Yvonne White
GEN/200
April 28, 2014
Cathy Tobin
Ethical Lens Inventory Statement
Before taking this class, I didn’t even realize what an Ethical Lens Inventory was, much less that it had strengths and weaknesses and even a blind spot.
I. My preferred ethical lens is the rights and responsibilities lens, meaning I use my reasoning skills to determine my duties as well as the universal rules that each person should follow.
II. My blind spot is that I believe that motive justifies method. It says that I may intentionally cause people upset and pain because I am so focused on my good motive. I can relate this to my daughters and raising them over the years. I have upset them on more than one occasion when my motives for making a decision directly resulted in upsetting them. I have a tendency to go about things the wrong way but for a good reason in the end, so I completely agree with the findings in my blind spot in this report.
III. Strengths and weaknesses – One of my strengths is in self-knowledge. It states that when I say I am going to do something or care for someone, I will follow through with it, which is entirely true. Even within my gaming community, when it involves people playing fictitious characters on a computer screen, when I tell someone I am going to do something for them, I follow through with it to the best of my ability. Also when it comes to someone asking me a question in game about something, I will research everything I can find until I have the correct answer to give them. My weaknesses are with becoming too judgmental and legalistic, meaning I can become overly rigid with my expectations and obsess over minute details. I do have a tendency to get upset if someone does not do what they say they are going to do and tend to label them not so much as unethical, but as lazy.
IV. Values and resultant behaviors – My core values are Autonomy, meaning I value the protection of individual
Yvonne White
GEN/200
April 28, 2014
Cathy Tobin
Ethical Lens Inventory Statement
Before taking this class, I didn’t even realize what an Ethical Lens Inventory was, much less that it had strengths and weaknesses and even a blind spot.
I. My preferred ethical lens is the rights and responsibilities lens, meaning I use my reasoning skills to determine my duties as well as the universal rules that each person should follow.
II. My blind spot is that I believe that motive justifies method. It says that I may intentionally cause people upset and pain because I am so focused on my good motive. I can relate this to my daughters and raising them over the years. I have upset them on more than one occasion when my motives for making a decision directly resulted in upsetting them. I have a tendency to go about things the wrong way but for a good reason in the end, so I completely agree with the findings in my blind spot in this report.
III. Strengths and weaknesses – One of my strengths is in self-knowledge. It states that when I say I am going to do something or care for someone, I will follow through with it, which is entirely true. Even within my gaming community, when it involves people playing fictitious characters on a computer screen, when I tell someone I am going to do something for them, I follow through with it to the best of my ability. Also when it comes to someone asking me a question in game about something, I will research everything I can find until I have the correct answer to give them. My weaknesses are with becoming too judgmental and legalistic, meaning I can become overly rigid with my expectations and obsess over minute details. I do have a tendency to get upset if someone does not do what they say they are going to do and tend to label them not so much as unethical, but as lazy.
IV. Values and resultant behaviors – My core values are Autonomy, meaning I value the protection of individual