Ethics of Emergencies

Ayn Rand, believes “ethics of altruism” as a destructive idea. Altruism is the willingness to do things for others, even if you are not getting anything from those acts. She believed it was a destructive idea, because it puts other people’s values before yours. If you do this, you are saying that your life should be sacrificed. Instead, Any Rand believed in ethical egoism. The book defines ethical egoism: “It holds that our only duty is to do what is best for ourselves. Other people matter only insofar as they can benefit us” (page 65). You can tell that Rand’s believes in ethical egoism when she said that if someone is suffering, you should help them if it will benefit you. If a man does not have any virtues, you should not help him, because it doesn’t do you any good. According to Rand, people act in a way that betters themselves. Yes, people may do nice things for others, but the purpose of this is for them to get ahead. In the book they used the example of Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg move to Hungary from Sweden to help save many Jewish people. According to

Do people have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk? Mountain climbing is an activity of climbing mountains. For helicopter services, each cost about $2 million apiece and the helicopter could only take one climber. The air is very thin on the higher level of the mountain, climbers may have faced bad weather. Members of climber are increasing in the climbing season, many of them are in the death zone that there are traffic jams. People do not have the right to rescue services when they put themselves in a risky because people may die, and bad environment.

Jeanna Bryner, the managing editor of Live Science relinquished an article called “Human Suffering: Why We Care (or Don’t)” in order to explicate the different factors that affect our decisions in availing or not. One of the fascinating reasons mentioned was “To make any difference in Darfur… a person would have to make a much longer-term commitment that could be quite taxing, physically and monetarily.”(par. 17). Bryner expounded that in order to avail others, we need to give up an abundance of time in our lives, and not everyone can do that. Availing others can additionally be hazardous, for example, if we wanted to avail people in Darfur who are under a perpetual genocide, we might have to peregrinate there and there’s an immensely colossal chance of losing our lives. A plethora of times it is physically arduous to avail others. To us the benefit of staying home with our families and having a stable life largely affects our decision of availing others. All those societal factors make us act nonchalant to human suffering, but they are not the only reasons to why we act the way we do.

Ravandeep Kaur (Group B) Unit 3: Health, safety and security in health and social care.

Many concerns and objections have been filed in opposition to the Department of Health (which includes Social Services, Fire and Emergency Management, and Human Services) administrator by departments, citizens, and so on. The City Manager has contracted me regarding: unethical practices, unprofessional leadership, poor fire and emergency response time, unethical practices, insufficient customer and patient care, and much more concerning various governmental departments and external stakeholders. In regards to the latest questions of the City Manager a thorough search into the accusations will be put into play. Supplementary to the issues already being presented, the school board have made concerns to the capability to conduct daily transactions.The school board has a collaborative association with an assortment of government departments and they have levied department directors with non fulfillment to work together on a number of efforts that will be revealed later within this report. This report will provide an underlying support for the City Manager to discourse and perform leadership techniques that outline the actions that should be carried out in order to prevail over the previously mentioned complaints.

The concept of compassion and generosity through resource sharing in essence establish themselves onto many of the world’s major religions, political systems, and moral foundations. Most would agree with the Golden Rule, “Do to others what you want them to do to you.” (Matthew 7:12) as a common moral adage suggests, or that “Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?” (Isaiah 58:7). Although many would agree that compassion and generosity through resource sharing is just, is it realistic? Garrett Hardin in his essay “Lifeboat Ethics” argues that not only is resource sharing is unrealistic, but that it is also unfavorable since it stretches the few limited resources available to the point of ruin. He does this through rhetoric, or the use of logos, ethos, and pathos. In this essay, we will define logos, ethos, and pathos, analyze how Hardin’s uses these rhetorical appeals in his essay, and conclude how effective he was using these appeals to persuade his audience.

Further evidence against selfless altruism comes from the evidence that individual attributes appear to effect prosocial and altruistic behaviour being displayed. Ruggiero et al (1981) found that taller, heavier and physically stronger people are more likely to put themselves in harm’s way to help others in an emergency. This would suggest that an individual has first considered the cost to themselves of helping,

This chapter provides an overview that describes the basic types of hazards threatening the United States and provides definitions for some basic terms such as hazards, emergencies, and disasters. The chapter also provides a brief history of emergency management in the federal government and a general description of the current emergency management system—including the basic functions performed by local emergency managers. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the all-hazards approach and its implications for local emergency management.

Many citizens become equipped with the instincts to care and protect. In disaster situations, citizens begin helping one another and coming together as one whole. The recent disasters in Texas have shown the true colors of America. At the end of August 2017 Texas experienced “50 inches of torrential rain” (Schram). In times of tragedy lines of race, age, and religion blurs and the Texans became reduced to humans helping other humans. As explained by Martin Schram, a seasoned journalist, “The world watched news showing strangers helping strangers, saving the lives of whole families, elders, and invalids, hauling them into their small boats.” This is when we see less concern for oneself and more concern for others, and what else is a true demonstration of virtue? Aristotle once said, “‘virtue is concerned with emotions and actions;’ to have good character is to ‘hit the mean’ with respect to both”(Sherman 154). People acting on good morals and following those morals by acting express a well rounded

There are unique ethical and legal obligations of the Emergency Room Physician. Commonly faced issues include patient “dumping”, organ donation, and Do-Not Resuscitate orders. These issues have ethical and legal considerations for the Emergency Room Physician in regards to their responsibilities and actions.

Emergency management faces many challenges in today’s modern society. In the years prior to 9/11 emergency management was primarily focused on natural disasters. That has since changed; we now face a diverse variety of risks and hazards on a constant basis. As we continue to grow in population current and newer have compounded into more problems that emergency planner must face and find solutions for.

Communication is widely regarded as one of the most essential elements in successfully managing an emergency situation. The dissemination of information, which is both timely as well as accurate, to the parties concerned goes a long way to lend a hand in ensuring that the recovery activities in an emergency situation, together with its management takes place effectively. For that reason, five critical assumptions are used to provide the basis of disaster management strategy.

According to Aronson, Wilson, and Akert (2013) prosocial behavior is defined as an act performed for the benefit of another person. Altruism is referred to as the want to help another individual even if it means no benefits, or possibly a cost, for the helper (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert, 2013). One particular factor, the bystander effect, has a profound impact on whether or not people help others. The bystander effect states that as the number of people who witness an emergency increases, the likelihood that any of those people will help decreases (Aronson et al., 2013). Processes associated with the bystander effect such as pluralistic ignorance, diffusion of responsibility, and victim effect all impact the likelihood of prosocial

Ethics can be dangerous to your career. The danger may come not from your own ethics but from the ethics of people around you and the organization of which you are a part. Employees have various moral decisions to make. Many of these decisions should be made on the basis of our moral obligations, but sometimes the morally preferable action could require courage and be performed beyond the call of duty. One defense against involvement in wrongdoing is vocalizing when there are unethical practices being made. While being prepared for organizational challenges that will inevitably test your personal values, moral beliefs, and commitment may be doing the right thing, is it ethical when one’s job is on the line?

This extract will elaborate on some of the legal considerations that the emergency manager must consider when conducting searches, seizures, and evacuation operations during an emergency management activity. Unfortunately with the unforeseen nature of the emergency and/or disaster one must consider whether this event involves imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, harm, lost of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, the choices that must be made by local officials frequently are not easy to make in a split of a second (Nicholson, n.d.). Most of their decisions may not be the most popular choice but must be the course of action that will benefit the cause.