Ethics And Its Effectiveness And Application, Ethical Concerns Over The Usage Of Nudging

People from all walks of life face many ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas have consequences. Our worldview determines how we deal with these dilemmas, and guides us to the right decisions. In this essay, I will examine an ethical issues through my Christian worldview. I will also present other viewpoints, and compare them to mine.

In Stanley Milgram’s ‘The Perils of Obedience’, Milgram reports from his studies of how far an individual can go in obedience to instructions and he pointed out that individuals can go as far as causing serious harm to the other people. Basically, the experiments are meant to test the choice that an individual would make when faced with the conflict of choosing between obedience to authority and obedience to one’s conscience. From the tests, it was found out that a number of people would go against their own conscience of choosing between what is wrong and what is right so as to please the individual in authority (Milgram 317). However, the experiments conducted by Milgram caused a wide range of controversy for instance; according to Diana Baumrind, the experiments were immoral. Baumrind notes in ‘Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience’ that Milgram did not only entrap his subjects, but he also potentially caused harm to his subjects (Baumrind 329). Based on the arguments that have been presented by the two authors, it is apparent that the two authors are concerned with real life situations, authority and ethics but the difference is that they both view these perspectives from different points of view as indicated by their writings. By and large, they also tend to show the importance or the insignificance of the experiments.

Apply the ethical decision making model presented in week one lectures (adapted from Beemsterboer, 2010; Velasquez et al, 2009) to the case study.

Author Thaler and Sunstein wrote about how to influence choices people make or not making any choices. The essay stated that when people don’t make any decision this can create problems and or make them worst. Something had to be done to cause people to react or make choices to address or direct them in the arears that where important to the organizations.

Discuss the ethical dilemmas PMHNPs sometimes find themselves in and name the opposing ethical principles

However, one’s [present] choices might threaten one’s future freedom, therefore restrictions that would prevent such a situation are justified as well. Soft paternalism is also useful to protect individuals from any decision they would most likely regret later, for example ones taken in ‘temporary states’ (of fear, anger, or depression), especially when there is no turning back possible . So paternalism is justified when restrictions are for the own good of individuals, whether they acknowledge it or not, and prevent them from potential irreversible damages. Finally, unlike Mill who ‘endows the average individual with too much reason and rationality’ , Dworkin, like Hart, suggests that individuals may not always correctly understand or appreciate some situations and dangers , so paternalism should be justified to prevent them from harming others. In the end, the author justifies several cases of paternalism but also suggests, whenever it is possible, to opt for prevention over

I will discuss two ethical questions featured in Walden Two. First, is behavioral

Learning to treat oneself with instantaneous subconscious response, in particular one that reduces psychological tension and intimately physical tension, is rewarding. Once we have time to reflect on whether our actions are mentally ethical

The Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment applies to morally right behaviors. The man sending the electric shocks knew it wasn’t right to torture the other one by getting the questions incorrect. So he wanted to call it quits, due to him knowing he was causing unreasonable pain to others, not knowing that the other person was an actor. The man suggested to stop but professor Milgram who is the authority figure encouraged him to continue, making him ignore the feeling of the wrong he was doing.

In this experiment, subjects are explained that this is “a ‘learning experiment’ to ... study the effects of punishment on memory” (4). Yet, the real intention here is to measure the participants’ compliance towards the experimenter. This controversy is unethical as subjects are volunteering for a cause that does not exist. They are misled since they are not exposed to the real purpose of this study.

When humans hear the term “blind spots,” they often have a flashback to an event in life where they were driving and attempted to merge into another lane. Typically there are two outcomes from this event: the neighboring driver honks to alert that there is an impending car accident or that accident actually occurs. The same can be said for ethical decisions where humans often do not know they are making a decision with ethical implications. Unfortunately, there is usually not another person to honk at us alerting of the impending danger. The book Blind Spots, by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, explores these blind spots which pervade ethical decision making for individuals, organizations and society. Throughout the book, the authors offer various areas of day-to-day life where unethical gaps thrive and they offer mechanisms to understand and manage these gaps.

Ethical behavior is significant to the development of persuasion, and important to the behavior of humans.It also influences persuasion by developing the progression of persuasion, and increasing those who are accountable for it. A person’s ethical behavior originates with morals and changes into what way an individual is required to connect to encourage effectively and dependably and finishes with who obligation it is to take responsibility in a persuasive interchange. The significance of our ethical behavior is realized within all our origins as human beings and stands as the groundwork of our different societies. We are directed by our ethical customs in the cultures which we create and live. “ The persuader’s determined actions means more under deontological ethics than under teleological ethics”( Magee,2014). According to David B. Resnik, J.D.,( 2011), ethics is defined as standards for behavior that differentiate between tolerable and intolerable conduct. Ethical morals of behavior that specify how an individual should conduct them self centered on ethical responsibilities and qualities.

After spending a good amount of the semester discussing and learning about Robert Cialdini, it is safe to say that no good discussion on influence and persuasion can go very far without talking about the man who wrote the book on influence. After learning about Cialdini, we now know what he identifies as the six weapons of influence. The six weapons are reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity. By weapons, what Cialdini really relays, are the six behavioral triggers that tend to create habitual and expected compliance. To see if these influences really exist in the real world, we made trips to places where we were going to be potential customers, being sold a product or service by someone. We

If you had someone’s life in your hands and an authority figure tells you to destroy it, what would you do? I hope I would do anything in my power to keep that other person safe and defy the authority. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on that said topic: the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.

In this paper, I am going to discuss the importance of ethical behavior and its significance in persuasion. I will also define two ethical theories and