Worksheet: Ethics and Material Ethical Dilemma

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Ethical Dilemma Worksheet

Incident Review

|What is the ethical issue or problem? Identify the issue succinctly. |
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|The Moral agent is a probation officer with the ethical dilemma of a recommendation for the husband who is being convicted of a 3rd|
|offense of DUI and a diagnosed medical condition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Should the corrections officer base his |
|recommendation into account of his medical issue or just base on a literal interpretation of the law? |
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|What are the most important facts? Which facts have the most bearing on the ethical decision presented? Include any important |
|potential economic, social, or political pressures, and exclude inconsequential facts. |
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|The fact of the third conviction cannot be ignored. Social and political pressures may force the judge to sentence the husband |
|harshly, regardless of past trauma due to serving in the military. The probation officer is subject to politics and the power it |
|comes with. Suggesting distributive justice and alternate sentence to the minimum 90 day, one might prove politically and socially |
|unpopular. While the