which involves the moral standards and principles and how it affects the outcome of a decision‚ and to help give an ethical response to Alice’s case study‚ The Layoff. In order for me to give the right advice to Alice to respond to her friend‚ I will firstly identify the moral standards and principles that should be applied‚ what the ethical dilemmas that Alice faces and the process for decision making. Then identify key ethical theories like‚ Consequentialist theories: Egoism‚ Utilitarianism
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1. What is a moral dilemma? A genuine dilemma is one type of moral problem‚ captured by the expression “You’re damned if you do‚ damned if you don’t.” That is‚ in a dilemma‚ there appears to be no right answer or solution (Dreisbach‚ 2008). Moral dilemmas‚ at the very least‚ involve conflicts between moral requirements (McConnell‚ 2010). 3. The four questions that must be asked to establish if a Dirty Harry Problem exists are: Did the agent know the situation and the choices that it offers
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Is Facebook “Good” For You? Ellie B April 10‚ 2012 Think back to 2005‚ just a mere seven years ago. MySpace was climbing the charts with 26.7 million users (MacManus‚ 2006). YouTube was just launched and gained much popularity through MySpace. Mark Zuckerburg had just created Facebook the year before and has just opened usage to high school students (Acohido‚ 2009). Nobody living in 2005 could have ever predicted the skyrocketing usage of the internet in the years to come
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Ethical dilemma 2 Abstract Ethical dilemmas are prevalent in all areas of life. In each helping profession‚ ethical guidelines and codes require that professionals act morally and in the best interest of the client. As a prospective counseling psychologist‚ I would need keen judgment to recognize and professional skills to handle an ethical dilemma. This paper details my personal experience of an ethical dilemma while working as a case manger. My objective is to identify the setting of
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Instructions Read Case 5.2 on pp. 226- 228 - Drug Dilemmas. (Of course‚ you must read Chapter 5 prior to reading the case :) Chapter 5 is very interesting in many respects. We need to consider whether corporations have social responsibilities and whether they have moral responsibilities in addition to making profits. You can see it’s a difficult balance to attain. Go to pages 202-203 to read about "Corporate Moral Agency" and the 2010 Supreme Court ruling giving corporations First Amendment
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food restaurants‚ grocery stores‚ restaurants‚ and farmers markets with most of the food being relatively affordable. Our nation without a doubt has many dilemmas that need to be solved‚ however if you were to group all of these dilemmas into different sets and focus on the “food” set of the dilemmas‚ which would be our nation’s current food dilemma? Taking everything into account‚ finding healthy‚ tasteful foods seems to be the main concern of many Americans today. With obesity on the
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Ethical dilemmas‚ also known as moral dilemmas‚ have been a problem for ethical theorists as far back as Plato. An ethical dilemma is a situation wherein moral precepts or ethical obligations conflict in such a way that any possible resolution to the dilemma is morally intolerable. In other words‚ an ethical dilemma is any situation in which guiding moral principles cannot determine which course of action is right or wrong. An ethical dilemma‚ also known as a moral dilemma‚ is a situation where
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Networking Sites (SNS) or in this case Facebook has been causing serious addiction amongst individuals these days. This situation is no longer seen as an addiction but as a serious mental health issue. People these days spend majority of their time online by surfing Facebook in their virtual community. Psychologists describe this scenario as ‘Facebook Addiction Disorder’ (FAD). This disorder is seen as an addiction because the individual who is said to be addicted to Facebook actually confronts similar
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life. Social networking has facilitated communication‚ commerce‚ and information distribution. However‚ the downside to the social networking has become the topic of recent studies because of the rise of digital media and the ways the computer has penetrated human society. Popular social networking sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ and MySpace‚ have caused many children to become obsessed and addicted‚ resulting in being incapable of having real conversations with people‚ to a larger effect‚ it
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research. His omission from the report will have serious repercussions for his employment. How do you respond? Response to Dilemma I think it was very selfish of employee (R) to decide to forward all of the reply’s he received to the owner and the other office employees. There are many ways in which responsible decision making can go wrong. However‚ in this case it seems to me that employee (R) failed to act accordingly with his ethical judgment and decided to act unethical. There was one
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