The Ethical Dilemma Of The United States

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

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

On the night of July 20th, 2012 the term tragedy was rewritten as the largest mass shooting in United States history took place in a movie theater located in Aurora, Colorado. What is now known as “The Batman Massacre” resulted in twelve casualties, fifty eight injuries, grief ridden family members, and left the rest of the United States searching for answers. This horrific scene will be replayed in the minds of the survivors for life and will be one of grave devastation to the family members directly involved. The shooting has many dynamic angles to consider, especially the ones that involve the shooter. Included here is his background, the legal issues inflicted, and his motive to carry out such a

Nurses are faced with ethical dilemmas every day. There are a lot of different beliefs surrounding ethics and the code of ethics. Ethics and ethical issues have always existed, that is why they have put in place the code of ethics. The American Nursing Association (ANA) Code of Ethics isa guideline to help nurses determine which course of action to pursue. Every minute many ethical decisions are made, some may not comply with guidelines and others the patient’s will never understand. In this case study the nurse is put in an uncomfortable position and has two find a way to comply with the family, the patient, and the doctor’s orders.How can she report to the doctor the information the daughter has told her? How she approached

There are many examples of ethical decisions throughout American history yet few have had a more profound impact on shaping our country then the paths chosen by the American Revolutionaries. Let’s face it, had it not been for their actions our country would probably look much different today. If it were not for the foresight of our founding fathers, men like Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, or Thomas Paine (1776), who authored arguably the most compelling piece of political propaganda the world had seen to date, Common Sense. After reading Paine’s work I believe that many of the ideals and philosophies are still relevant in modern society, so much so that I was drawn into the relevance and found myself pondering the moral palaver which

There are many ethical dilemmas that occur daily in our hospitals across the world. Not everyone agrees with standards and policies that are required in hospitals or even with the law. If not everyone obeys the law, ethical cases form. In Springfield, Missouri, a holistic nurse got fired for fighting against Cox South hospital policies. Carla Brock has been a nurse at Cox South hospital and not only refused the flu shot, but also refused to wear a mask. She refused due to religious beliefs, she gets short of breath while wearing the mask, and she feels the mask is meant to intimidate and humiliate those who refuse the shot. The ethical question in this case study is to decide if Carla should have been fired for not wearing a mask after refusing the flu shot and what are other potential proposals. The four-way method will separate out what are the truths, consequences, fairness, and character, of this ethical case study.

The school shooting in Roseburg, Oregon was severe. On October 1st, 2015 Thursday 10:38 am at Umpqua Community College (UCC), the gunman went to the school and started shooting students. Many students were killed and injured. The gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26 years old, had an interest in guns, struggling with mental health issues, and had anger against religious people. This shooting was called, “One of the Deadly mass shootings this year”.

Jared Lee loughner was accused of domestic terrorism after the 2011 Tucson shooting where 6 people were killed and 13 were injured.After his arrest, two medical evaluations diagnosed him as paranoid schizophrenic and incompetent to stand trial. He was medicated while in jail as part of his treatment.

When news of an active shooter situation hits the media, word spreads quickly, especially when the event takes place at a school. Before long, expert psychologists, law enforcement personnel, and even ordinary citizens begin to look into the shooter’s personal life, attempting to find a piece of evidence that could help explain why they opened fire. The incident that took place on October 24, 2014 at Marysville Pilchuck High School is no exception. Fifteen year old Jaylen Fryberg entered the school cafeteria, took out a .40-caliber handgun, and began shooting at a table of his classmates (Carter, 2014). Four students would succumb to their injuries, and another three were critically wounded. Fryberg also took his own life in the shooting (“Marysville Shooter Texted,” 2015).

"I'm angry someone would do this to us. There are lives ruined, families ruined, and our whole school year is ruined" (Brackely 1). Casey Brackely, once a student that attended Columbine High School, remembers the tragedy of the horrific Columbine shooting that killed and injured many students. Mass shootings in the United States have been on the rise since the 1980’s, especially in the last decade. These shooters motives and profiles are almost all terrifyingly alike. Many of these shooters try to imitate and parallel the tragic shooting of the Columbine High School in 1999. These shootings have made peaceful organizations, such as an elementary school; become a place of violence and death. Currently, in the United States, an epidemic of

Even though many people noticed it, they wanted to ignore it. When asked to describe Jared, many of the students and instructors from Pima college thought that he was, “creepy, very hostile, suspicious and someone who had a dark personality” (“Jared Lee Loughner”). He would also post violent videos and talk about how the world should be and how he will fix it. When going through Jared’s “Google” history, “the FBI found that he was looking at Web sites related to lethal injection and Web sites about famous assassins days before the shooting, including the evening and morning hours leading up to the event” (“Arizona Shooting”). In addition, investigators said that Jared “also posted a note on his MySpace page hours before the shooting saying goodbye friends and posed in photographs with a Glock semiautomatic pistol that is believed to be the same one used in the shooting”(Goldstein and Lacey). All of these hints indicated that he was up to no good, but nobody was willing to get him any treatment. Then again, sometimes it may not be as easy as people think.

“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

I will be writing about the response to one of the dilemmas at the end of the chapter that was asked of a family member and then asks them why they decided that way (Pollack, 2017). I will try to identify their reasoning by determining if it is egoism, ethical formalism, utilitarian, ethics of care, religion, or some other ethical system.

The duality between professional morality and ordinary nonprofessional morality has concerned the world of various professionals such as physicians and lawyers when tackling how to treat patients and clients. In many of these professions, one encounters that one’s common morality sometimes at odds with one’s professional morality. In such cases, one ponders which morality should one follow to arrive at a decision. In the above scenario, while most agree that it is okay for an ordinary person to ignore the shooter’s medical need in favor of an innocent victim’s, some philosophers may argue that a doctor should refrain from making such discrimination in treatment because his professional morality requires him to act is the patients’ best interest and not based on patient’s previous actions. In such case, professional morality triumphs the ordinary nonprofessional morality. However, nothing could be further from the truth. While role morality does deserve some consideration, it does not simply override the common morality when it is at odds with nonprofessional morality. In this essay, I will tackle that despite the argument for role morality in the above scenario, it is morally permissible as a doctor to ignore the medical needs of the shooter on the grounds that he is the shooter, and that his innocent victims deserve priority in receiving medical assistance.