Sustainability
Megan Gardiner
Nancy Lloyd
GLE 120 03
8 May 2014
Introduction: People are faced with decisions every day and they have the choice to take the high road but often times they chose to take the low road. When it comes to decision making taking the high road is choosing the ethical option while the low road is making the decision to take the unethical option. The article The Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things, by Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Speigal gets to the bottom of why people, when faced with a problem, choose to make an unethical choice when they know that it is the wrong way of going about fixing their problem. There are reasons as to why people making decisions knowing full well that it is unethical. People do that because the unethical choice is the easier option and it may be more beneficial to one’s own interests. The article made clear that people are good natured, but we are all capable of making unethical decisions, the authors wrote, ” These researchers have concluded is that most of us are capable of behaving in profoundly unethical ways. And not only are we capable of it without realizing it, we do it all the time.” While everyone knows right from wrong it is inevitable that unethical decisions are made more often than one may think.
Thesis: When faced with a decision people have to make the choice to make the ethical or unethical choice, and while many know the ethical option is the correct one people find the unethical option far to temping to pass up.
Body 1: Summary
Toby grew up in Ohio in the 80’s and his father always taught him to value his strong moral character
One day the news broke that his older was getting sentenced to prison for committing fraud, and on that day he promised his father that he would never make an unethical decision like his brother that would get him in trouble.
Toby grew older and went to college. After graduating he started his own mortgage loan company.
He made similar unethical business
Nancy Lloyd
GLE 120 03
8 May 2014
Introduction: People are faced with decisions every day and they have the choice to take the high road but often times they chose to take the low road. When it comes to decision making taking the high road is choosing the ethical option while the low road is making the decision to take the unethical option. The article The Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things, by Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Speigal gets to the bottom of why people, when faced with a problem, choose to make an unethical choice when they know that it is the wrong way of going about fixing their problem. There are reasons as to why people making decisions knowing full well that it is unethical. People do that because the unethical choice is the easier option and it may be more beneficial to one’s own interests. The article made clear that people are good natured, but we are all capable of making unethical decisions, the authors wrote, ” These researchers have concluded is that most of us are capable of behaving in profoundly unethical ways. And not only are we capable of it without realizing it, we do it all the time.” While everyone knows right from wrong it is inevitable that unethical decisions are made more often than one may think.
Thesis: When faced with a decision people have to make the choice to make the ethical or unethical choice, and while many know the ethical option is the correct one people find the unethical option far to temping to pass up.
Body 1: Summary
Toby grew up in Ohio in the 80’s and his father always taught him to value his strong moral character
One day the news broke that his older was getting sentenced to prison for committing fraud, and on that day he promised his father that he would never make an unethical decision like his brother that would get him in trouble.
Toby grew older and went to college. After graduating he started his own mortgage loan company.
He made similar unethical business