Has there ever been a time when you (or someone you know) let your conscience be your guide only to end up committing an immoral act?

Ethics week 3 discussion

All posts should be thoughtful, respectful, and add substantive value to the discussion. One or two sentences is not a substantive response. All posts should be written using full sentences in paragraph form. The use of philosophical concepts is required to earn full points. Please provide both in-text citations and post-text references. Do not bother claiming that you did not provide in-text citations and post-text references because everything came from your head. You are required to include textual evidence for your claims.

Discussion Prompts

Select one of the three prompts below to respond to in your initial post this week. You are encouraged to respond to peers that explored prompts that you did not.

Prompt #1

Has there ever been a time when you (or someone you know) let your conscience be your guide only to end up committing an immoral act? In this case, did you find that you (or someone you know) listened more to your emotional side or rational side when making this decision? (USLO 3.2)

Prompt #2

A doctor is driving down a road late at night. She sees a car in the opposite lane swerve sharply off the road and it crashes. There are no other cars around. Her gut reaction as a physician is to stop to assist the victims. However, she quickly remembers there are no “Good Samaritan laws” on the books in that state to protect her from malpractice lawsuits. Her conscience tells her she is justified in driving on. How would Freud explain the behavior of her conscience in this scenario? Do you believe her conscience was correct? (USLO 3.3)

Prompt #3

Do you think that conscience is the best guide or indicator of moral truth? Share a time when you’ve interacted with someone who seemed to lack a sense of moral sense or conscience. What was your reaction to this person? How should we respond to people who seem to lack morals and hurt others? (USLO 3.1)

 

Are there any specifi c people you have learned from while formulating your approach to teaching ethical behavior?

Teaching Rules-Based and Values-Based Ethics

How did you become so interested in ethics?

Are there any specifi c people you have learned from while formulating your approach to teaching ethical behavior?

What would you say is the most effective way to motivate people to be ethical?

What do you fi nd most interesting about the students’ perspective or reaction to ethics?

Is it ethical to pre-screen potential employees by using the internet (i.e.Facebook,LinkedIn,Twitter,Google,and YouTube)?

ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS

After reading the Modular readings and conducting your own research,answer the following questions in a 2-3 page paper using APA:

Do you think it is ethical to lay off 10 of the “senior” employees, to hire five new college graduates, and to double the work of the new employees? Justify your response.

Is it ethical to pre-screen potential employees by using the internet (i.e.Facebook,LinkedIn,Twitter,Google,and YouTube)?

What are some solutions to this case study? What is the best solution for this case study? Justify your response.

Your paper should be double-spaced and in 12-point type size.

Your paper should have a separate cover page and a separate reference page containing the full citations corresponding to the in-text citations you choose to use in the body of your paper.

Discuss possible generalizations of the analysis and the policy implications.

DOWNSIZING AND HETEROGENEOUS FIRING COSTS

The paper is organized as follows.

Section II

Presents the theoretical model of demand for labor with heterogeneous firing costs and productivity. Theoretical predictions concerning idiosyncratic firing thresholds are derived.

Section III

Portrays the data used for the empirical analysis. In

section IV

The econometric model is derived from the theory and is estimated using personnel data from a large firm in demise.

Section V

Calculates the difference in net present value of a firm’s remaining workforce that is downsized randomly or according to the structural model.

Section VI

Discusses possible generalizations of the analysis and the policy implications.

Section VII concludes.

Discuss the development of the “Urban Indian” identity and ownership of that label.How does it relate to the push for assimilation by the United States government?

There There Prompt

Discuss the development of the “Urban Indian” identity and ownership of that label.How does it relate to the push for assimilation by the United States government? (Why did 140,000 Indians migrate to urban areas in 1950-1960?) How do the characters in There There navigate this modern form of identity alongside their ancestral roots? Only 3 pages

MLA format with MLA citations and page numbers.

Discuss the difference between just and unjust laws as outlined by Dr. King.

Dr. King (150 words minimum) – In the Ethics textbook read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”.

Discuss the difference between just and unjust laws as outlined by Dr. King.

Use your own words to describe and define just and unjust laws. Include a quote from the portion of the letter that you determined best characterized just and unjust laws.

Provide in-text citation(s), where appropriate.

What are the prospects, with or without treatment,for a return to an acceptable quality of life (QOL) and what physical, mental,and social deficits might the patient experience even if treatment succeeds?

Quality of Life

Beneficence,Nonmaleficence, & Autonomy

1.What are the prospects, with or without treatment,for a return to an acceptable quality of life (QOL) and what physical, mental,and social deficits might the patient experience even if treatment succeeds?

2.On what grounds can anyone judge that some QOL would be undesirable for a patient who cannot make or express such judgement?

Do critical military mission considerations dictate that the need for preferential care?

Medical Indications

Beneficence and Nonmaleficence

1.What is the patient’s medical problem?

2.Is the problem acute? Chronic? Critical? Reversible?Emergent?Terminal?

3.Where the goals of treatment?

4.In what circumstances are medical treatments not indicated?

5.How can the patient benefit from medical and nursing care,avoid harm?

6.Do critical military mission considerations dictate that the need for preferential care?

7.Conscience clause: is there an indication for intervention/patient preference that does not align with physician willingness to treat?

Does doing the morally right thing ever make a person’s life worse off than doing the wrong thing?

Choose ONE of the prompts below as the basis for a clear argumentative and critical essay demonstrating your understanding of what we have considered thus far in our Ethics course.

The essay should be MLA-formatted and should showcase a minimum of five (5) well-developed paragraphs, including the introduction, three substantive body paragraphs, and a thought-provoking conclusion. You should have an explicit thesis statement which states your essential claim. Stay in Yd-person formal point-of-view. Provide a meaningful title for the essay, as well, which captures the overall significance of the analysis. DO PROMPT 2 UNLESS YOU FEEL PROMPT ONE WILL GIVE ME A BETTER PAPER

PROMPT 2:

Does doing the morally right thing ever make a person’s life worse off than doing the wrong thing?

Was the resource helpful?How will it support your research study?Did your thinking change after reading the resource?

Ethical Concerns of Facial Recognition Systems and Software

Use EBSCOhost’s Academic Search Premier database if possible. If not any database will do to search for articles on ethical issues raised by Facial Recognition Systems and Software. Locate at least four scholarly sources to support your analysis. Develop an annotated bibliography, providing a 150-word summary (main points and ethical issues), assessment (reliability, bias, and goal of each reference), and reflection (Was the resource helpful?How will it support your research study?Did your thinking change after reading the resource?) for each source.

You may use MLA format for your references.

See the Purdue OWL website for information on developing an annotated bibliography.

Have attached my Topic Selection for your review.