Misfit Ethical Dilemmas

I feel it is a person’s choice and it is different than suicide. It has to be well thought out and talked about with a team of people involved including physicians, psychologists, and family. I also think it is based more on

The Misfit stated that he didn’t have a rough childhood, growing up with the “finest people in the world… God never made a finer woman than my mother and my daddy’s heart was pure gold” (O’Connor 413). It’s commonly thought that serial killers are motivated by their troublesome pasts, yet the Misfit didn’t seem to experience that. This creates ambiguity because O’Connor does not disclose what caused the Misfit to turn into a vicious killer. However, a possible explanation is that he has always suffered from psychological issues and the turbulent events he experienced contributed to his mental instability such as his time “in the arm services” and seeing “a man burnt alive” (O’Connor 415). Another example is when the grandmother touched the Misfit’s shoulder and said, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” causing him to shoot her three times in the chest (O’Connor 417). The grandmother’s motivation for saying that the Misfit is her child and the Misfit’s motivation for shooting her after that statement are ambiguous. A possible explanation may be that the grandmother was in shock due to her situation and wasn’t in a clear state of mind when she said that. The statement and physical gestures presented by the grandmother must have agitated the Misfit in some way that resulted in her instant death. However, the true

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.

Ethical dilemmas occur when there is a disagreement about a situation and all parties involved question how they should behave based on their individual ethical morals. (Newman & Pollnitz, 2005). The dilemma that I will be addressing in this essay involves Michael, recently employed male educator working in the nursery, and parents of a baby enrolled at the centre. The parents have raised concerns about male educators changing their child’s nappy as they have cultural practices that do not allow this practice to take place. This situation is classed as an ethical dilemma as there is a dispute between cultural beliefs and legal requirements within the workplace. There are four parties involved (parents, child, educator and director), all

In the conversation between the grandmother and the Misfit, the Misfit talks of his past and how he was arrested for killing his father, which he denies committing. He claims that no one believed that he did not kill his father because there were papers that claimed that he did. This results

Instead of grieving for the death of her family, she tries to talk him out of killing her. She even tries to buy her own life. She seemed to care more for herself than her family. If she cared more for them, she would have offered more for their lives. At the very end of the story it seems the misfit got to know the grandmother very well in those few moments he spent with her. He said, “She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

The health care colleague interviewed, Faith McClure, has about thirty three years experience in the field. She was the Medical/Surgical Director at my facility, and currently a case manager in my office. This is to emphasize her experience and expertise in the medical field. She obviously had strong feelings about pharmaceutical marketing and was happy to contribute.

The misfit realizes that when holding a gun to the Grandmother, she then has the ability to be a “good” woman. The Grandmother was never a “good” woman, only in her eyes and her beliefs. She lacked compassion and respect for others. She held herself at a higher ground. If the Grandmother could have lived her life with a gun pointed at her or the punishments that The Misfit had endured, maybe she would have gained the compassion for others that she

The grandmother says, “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” (O’Connor Par 86). She is trying to figure out what kind of values the Misfit has and if she can persuade him to spare her life. “In hope of winning the Misfit over, the grandmother often compliments him,” (Yao, Par 3). “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!” (O’Connor Par 88) If her life was not in the hands of this convict, she would not repeatedly tell him that he is a good man. She does not convey these feeling about the Misfit when she is telling her son about him before the trip. The grandmother says, “If you would pray, Jesus would help you” (O’Connor Par 118). This is the only time that she refers to religion, and only does so hoping that he will have a change of heart in the name of Jesus. The Misfit is not easily spiritually enlightened by the grandmother’s words. “I don’t want no hep, I’m doing all right by myself” (O’Connor Par 121). The Misfit sees through her insincerity. As the grandmother grows more desperate to convince the Misfit her life is worth sparing, she tries to find some common ground with him. “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” (O’Connor Par 136) This is the grandmother’s one last attempt to manipulate this murderer into thinking that she is

In addition to the Grandmother’s actions, she is the cause of the family’s fate when she makes a mindless decision to blurt out the identity of the Misfit. In addition to the Grandmother’s actions she is the cause of the family’s fate when she makes a mindless decision to blurt out the identity of the Misfit. When her family members are lured into the woods, the Grandmother only tries to spare her own life. She makes suggestions that “the Misfit is too good a man to shoot a lady” (Hendricks 204). The Grandmother resorts to motherhood to manipulate the Misfit into being one of her babies to overcome him.

I have two issues and wanted to know if we have a policy on each one?

One of the largest decisions that I have had is trying to convince the Co-owner of my dog that the most humane thing would be to let her go peacefully. Claire is a dog that we own due to having been in a relationship together for the better part of a decade. Recently, Claire has been diagnosed with cancer and it unclear how long she will have to live. I believe that the most human thing will be to allow her to live out her last days in peace, at some point in the near future we will have to make the decision to put her down. Andy, the Co-owner, wants to try a high risk surgery and chemo and radiation therapy. Not only is this treatment plan highly risky, it is not predicted to have a high probability of success. The odds against Claire are

A friend and CEO of a mid-sized chemical refinery in Vernal, Utah hired you to be the Vice President for Research, Development, and Safety one year ago. Shortly after starting your new role, you discovered that the prior management team had kept secret potentially devastating information. The company had built its building on top of thirty 5,000-gallon tanks used to store highly toxic chemicals. Even though the tanks were drained 20 years ago, the toxic sludge remains, and might be slowly leaking out of the rusting tanks into the water table beneath it. This water naturally flows to the Navajo reservation about 25 miles away and might already be causing medical issues at the reservation.

“Brad is a production engineer at a bicycle company and part of his job includes inspecting broken bikes and drafting the design repairs for their repair” (Bartlett). Brad is considering replacing a broken brake cable with a more durable material, even though the customer did not request it in their order and specifically requested that “No aesthetic changes be made to the bike” (Bartlett). Brad’s manager suggests that his considered actions would go against the company’s policy of “The customer is always right.” Should Brad disobey the manager and the customer to possibly lose his job or go along with

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?