Ethics Essay Examples and Topics. Page 5

The choice of action is another imperative which guides my lifestyle based on the doctrines of the Bible as a mother and housewife. The moral content for our actions is imperative of the faculties of [...]

The objective is to test the practical validity of various ethical theories when seen from the point of view of conflicting moral situations, and how these theories can act as a guiding force to ensure [...]

Some of the methods include the use of interview schedules, where respondents are asked questions and the respondents respond directly while the researcher records the answers.

The concepts of social justice and ethical responsibility are closely connected with each other; the promotion of responsibilities among the population with the purpose of establishing and supporting the atmosphere of general justice and ethics.

In Allegory of the Cave, the Plato presents the idea that a person who has seen the fire or "the light" is able to see the reality and the truth.

The second concern of the ethical decision-making approach is the ideals. As the guideline imply that people are aware of the strongest obligations, the highest ideals, and the most important effects.

It is a way of reasoning exemplified by adolescents and adults who seek to judge the morality of actions by the views and mores of society.

The transformation in information technology has led to the emergence of new forms of violations related to computers. Ethics in this case refer to the basic rules and standards of conduct that are supposed to [...]

Ethical egoism does not support the interests of others and a radical view of ethical egoism views that it is enough for one to promote one's interest and it focuses only on one interest, that [...]

Finally, it could also be argued that Bill's decision not to tell his wife about his status creates a direct threat to her life and health, and thus the disclosure of this information would help [...]

Louis Pojman discusses the role and importance of merit and goodness in the life of people and the impact of merit on human relations and even historical events.

This paper illustrates the ethical aspects of hunting on the basis of human as the hunter versus animals as the hunted.

Besides, ethical theories such as virtue ethics facilitate an understanding of the ethical impasse of whether to terminate the contract of transgender employees or embrace their sexual identity in the workplace environment.

The basic pairs of components involved in both natural and socially classical experiments include the independent and dependent variables, pre and post-testing, experimental and control groups.

In order to protect her rights, the council should not interfere with her applications on the basis of what Phoebe did. In addition to punishment, she should be made to repeat the assignment and submit [...]

The ethical issues in the investigation process are often associated with the emotional overload and nervous breakdown of the persons who are attracted to this investigation.

It is necessary to underline the fact that this ethical resolution covers the necessity to provide weight to the choices and opinions of autonomous persons.

I do not agree with the ruling as it was unfair to the teacher bearing in mind that the court did not take the imitative of seriously dig into the case as with the technology, [...]

Thus, validity, ethical consideration, and integrity are critical for the qualitative research, and in the study of juvenile recidivism the researcher will try to follows the above principles to ensure presence of all these three [...]

While keeping this in mind, we will analyze the introduction of "holocaust denial" criminal charges into the penal code of many Western countries that simultaneously take pride in the fact that their democratic form of [...]

Police officers are the example for citizens of the country which they serve, and they should correspond to the position which is occupied.

People should live according to some rules and should value the moral rules according to which other people live. I am inclined to think that moral rules and values are mostly presented by our religion [...]

An example of an ethical dilemma surrounding the procedure is the case of rich man vs.poor man, or rather, the case of a person who can afford to buy an organ on the black market [...]

The necessary condition for being a proper client therefore, is being a creature or an individual conscious mind since to have true interest in his case is to be capable of having states of awareness [...]

If a woman finds that she is pregnant, and does not want to be, what is the best way out for her, the potential baby that she is carrying, and all the other people concerned [...]

The question, then, is whether our enjoyment of the way meat tastes is a good enough reason to justify the amount of suffering that the animals are made to undergo.

Ethics acknowledges people's interests, their freedom, rights to life and it also protects the law in that people should not violate it.

In view of Wiesenthal being a Jew, the dying man begged for his forgiveness, but Wiesenthal, after hearing all that the soldier had to say, kept quiet and walked out of the room after the [...]

In ethics, egoism is a theory that states that the end and motive of conduct is the promotion of one's own interest and not the interest of others.

Attitudes are an important component when it comes to practice with gay men and lesbians, and still, attention should also be given to external social and economic factors that influence and shape the personality of [...]

Relative is a view that is based on the fact that the truth and falsity, good and bad right and wrong are relative to an individual or a certain culture.

It means that each person should regard themselves as part of the organization as a whole and aim to form a clear and realistic picture of the roles they play in their companies.

French absolutism, largely relying on the power of the nobility and clergy over the common people, failed because the existing social construction was unable to respond to the needs of industrial society.

Furthermore they have to be the controls of such a being as we suppose God is. The notion of the utilitarianism is that the first and most significant principle that is believed can be resulting [...]

Finally, one of my professional goals is to increase the productivity and quality of the goods at whatever company I will be employed.

The present paper provides an overview of the two competing views and concludes that targeting children may be ethical if their parents are provided with a chance to opt out, and the product is not [...]

Moreover, the specified rule was selected as one of three primary ethical standards that an engineer has to meet due to the impact that it has on the long-term outcomes and the safety of an [...]

Stem cell research is a subject that has generally been absent from the current public and political debates, pushed to the backburner by issues such as the economy, the Iraq War, healthcare, and immigration.

Harte took some pictures of the rescue operation, including an image capturing the moment when the rescuers found the body of a drowned boy and showed it to the family.

The most relevant ethical issue is the replacement of people with robots in the workplace and the consequences that it brings today and may bring in the future.

For this reason, De Roeck and Farooq study in detail the relationship between employee social behavior, ethical leadership, and corporate social responsibility by considering all aspects that influence the results of the research.

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the results of the self-assessment, to clarify its relationship with a particular culture and the role of leadership decisions in cross-cultural situations.

Ethical conduct, both within the company and outside of it, is essential to this process, as it is easier to ruin the company's standing with a scandal than to rebuild its relationships.

The opinion article in the New York Times titled "The Internet will be the death of us" is centered on the idea that the Internet is a platform of hate and violence.

According to Christian beliefs, Paul should refuse to partake in the team's abuse of PEDs because it offers him and his teammates an unfair advantage over other athletes.

Adolescents who are in this stage begin to acknowledge and understand the beliefs embraced in their societies. The absence of a moral compass can make it hard for adolescents in this country to realize their [...]

In order to solve the problem of misunderstanding of the rules by registered licensees and streamline the requirement, the Education Subcommittee was charged by the board to make amendments in the standard.

In conclusion, it is appropriate to note that a clear answer to the matters of moral and instrumental values of human beings.

The notions of privacy, confidentiality, and privilege are central to the process of counseling and have to be adhered to so that rapport could be established between a patient and a counselor.

Value: If the story is published, the charity will likely attract significantly fewer donations in the upcoming charity event due to the loss of reputation from the former director's lack of discretion. Reputation: Both the [...]

Due to the lack of efficacy of the current system and the resulting reluctance among women serving in the army to report about the threats of sexual harassment, the existing code of ethics and the [...]

The mission of the company is to help children to enhance their academic performance and improve their grades while motivating them to become engaged in the learning process.

Regarding the increased topicality of such issues as tolerance, democracy, and multiculturalism in the modern world, ethics becomes one of the crucial aspects that should be considered in decision making. That is why ethical factors [...]

The given paper is devoted to the analysis of the case of Joyner and Arthur in connection to ethical dilemmas and values of social work.

Thus, the experience gained is one of the essential factors that can change the course of values under the impact of cultural aspects.

It is considered to be taboo in the US and some other English-speaking countries and is regarded as an act of ignorance, disrespect for people, and a lack of morality.

When in "The Taste of Armageddon", Anan 7 speaks about learning to fight in the proper way, he refers to the simulation of battles run by the computers; this form of war has preserved the [...]

Thus, the protagonist is facing the unknown in total solitude because the society around him is in survival mode, at the point of desperation, making each individual and group extremely pragmatic: All stop caring about [...]

The formation of a moral judgment should be essentially supported by the relevant reasons and evidence. It is crucial to ensure that the judgment is consistent and can be compared to other logical judgments.

The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him. Heinz became desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.

In this paper, I will pay attention to the importance of protecting vulnerable populations, the ways of how these populations can be categorized, and the guarantees that can be given to avoid possible violations.

The "loving" thing that Dora can do in the discussed situation is the selection of appropriate punishment for the employee and the provision of possible assistance in order to help him cope with the situation.

One of the tenets of my philosophy is that I must always endeavor to act in a manner that is beneficial to most people in the society.

Thompson accepts that every individual has the right to life, that is, the fetus has the right life, and also the mother has the right to life.

Professionalism, integrity, confidentiality, and respect are some of the sets and standards required in the field of therapy. The link below indicates the dates of publication and effectiveness of the ethical standards in marriage and [...]

There is also an argument that, whereas there is moral relativism in some moral beliefs, it is absent in the others.

In this case, we should expect people to argue that torture is wrong based on the fact that it does not derive happiness that is always desired from an ethical perspective.

On the whole, morality takes its origins in the tension between a person's desires or needs and the values of a society.

In this case, the court of law would have acted as a custodian of her rights and probably made a ruling that would have been in her best interest.

As such, the Immigration Act of 1924 was established, which promoted the immigration of foreign citizens into the US to meet these requirements, and also created several objective preconditions for foreigners to consider entering America [...]

The question that arises is whether humans are the only valuing agents in the world that are full of values. Although the environment is composed of humans and other millions of species, humans are the [...]

In other words, the biggest misconception that seems to have been accepted in society is the fact that the embryo is the standard to the right to life.

This paper evaluates the ethical standing of this question from a utilitarian point of view to establish the rightness or wrongness of the decision to shoot down the plane before it crashed.

Because ethics allows us to decide on the kind of action to follow, as such, it gives meaning and order to our lives.

He would advise me to take a course of action that would enable me to achieve my own personal interests at the expense of my neighbor's interests.

Moreover, the right to abortion is an extension of the right to freedom owing to the fact that an individual should choose what to carry in his or her body.

There are three key stakeholders in the given situation, which are the policemen, who set the terms; the father, who is to take the pivoting decision; and the family, who depends on the decision which [...]

In particular, it repudiates the idea that the nature of moral order results in sentiment and emotion. In such cases, it is necessary to ask for patient's consent to reveal the private data in order [...]

As a social worker, I have to decide whether to support the community group, which is unanimously opposed to the decision of the housing authorities to rent to the local mental health department to establish [...]

This paper examines critically the roles of cultural norms in the development of ethical standards and codes in the society and their impact on the general societal wellbeing.

As a Chief of Police, I would not allow police officers to accept gratuities because tokens of gratitude can be used to compromise their integrity, judgment, and impartiality in the administration of justice and law [...]

However, the main argument against considering the body as a commodity is that it would not be right to value a body in the same way we value other pieces of property.

The answer lies in the purpose and the implied public image of the police. The role of the policeman is to uphold the law dictated by the government and the constitution of the country.

One of the ethical concerns that arise in this case is obtaining the subjects' consent for conduction of the experiment and distribution of the results: due to the linguistic differences, between the languages that the [...]

Thus, to describe the phenomenon of public corruption, four major hypotheses exist the concept of "slippery slope," the society-at-large hypothesis, the structural or affiliation hypothesis, and the rotten apple hypothesis.

To be able to become a rational person, it is essential to think critically about the concepts and domains that the individual faces and the way it will be sensible to react to them.

Organizational managers should be aware of the constructs of moral, ethical, and legal standards to develop adequate models to address emerging problems.

An individual, referred to as the "agent", has to decide, which course of action has to be taken to achieve maximum benefit for all the parties involved. The major goal of any social worker is [...]

The purpose of this paper is to provide arguments that a moral justification of war is impossible based on a critical discussion of theories supporting the ethical justification of warfare and prove that they have [...]

The use of torture in averting the loss of lives is the right thing to do; therefore it is morally right.

This theory is similar to the virtue theory in the sense that both insist on careful consideration and assessment of a decision before embarking on it Nicholas and Paul, 2000).

It took decades for the government to acknowledge the necessity of the services offered in these clinics and even longer for the public to accept a woman's right to reproductive health care, the establishment of [...]

Due to the nature of technology, people are taken out of the loop of the operation of these technologies. Due to the automation of machines and their ability to change their code to adapt to [...]

One of the reasons why the killing of any human being is wrong is "the loss of his or her future".

On the basis of the act-utilitarianism, as an oncologist, I would give the trial drug to the genetics researcher since her recovery would benefit many people under the Malaria research.

This essay seeks to highlight Stance's argument that absolutism has and still is the backbone that provides the standard used to measure human behavior.

An analysis of the history of these people shows that they are skeptical of any government involvement in their business, specifically because the legal policies and foundation as stipulated by the federal and state governments [...]

Considering the events during the last century, the paper aims at exploring the background of the interaction of the Aboriginal Australian with people from other lands on the Australian soil, reflecting upon the historical impact [...]

Despite the common fallacy that there is colorless contractarianism within citizenship and role in the Canadian society, the reality is that racial contract has defined the political, decision, and social aspect of the society, as [...]

In conclusion, I would like to note that moral and ethical principles are a result of culture and people's own experiences.

Rule utilitarianism can be described by questions like "What would the majority of people do in that case?", "What decision would be best in that case?" Based on the concept of rule utilitarianism, the officer [...]

In the meantime, it is important to note, that the theory's key principle resides in the fact that a person is free to act by the inner desire that does not necessarily imply neglecting the [...]

This essay examines the CII's operations in the context of social work values and the administrative and micro-level steps for resolving any conflict between the CII's policies and professional values.

Abortion is aimed at the destruction of blastocyst, foetus, embryo or zygote and in the process kills the innocence any life that would be there.

The first fact refers to the idea that there is nothing more natural than hunting, and that is why it is normal.

From this point, the criteria for judging the book are the following ones: the author's approach to discussing the theories of justice and attractiveness of the proposed form of narration to the reader.

In the position of a district-level administrator, I should strive to avoid conflicts of interest by separating my personal preferences and my professional responsibilities.

The present paper aims to discuss the applicability of confidentiality and privacy provisions to prison research by addressing both the general rules regarding confidentiality of information in research and the specific considerations that apply to [...]

Many futurists believe strongly that new laws will be needed to tame the behaviors and actions of robots. That being the case, autonomous robots might take advantage of their rights to control human beings.

One of the most efficient types of leadership is transformational leadership that provides members of the group with a clear vision of the group's goals through enthusiasm and commitment. As can be seen, ethical leadership [...]

Thus, the ethical principles provided in the definite articles of The Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement concerning the issue of the participants' consent can be discussed as the moral protection for persons against the inappropriate usage [...]

The principle of moral relativism and its application in moral decision-making suggests that universally lawful moral principle is nonexistent. The principle of moral relativism maintains that the establishment of moral standards that apply to their [...]

According to the National Society of Professional Engineers, one of the key concerns of the latter must be the well-being of people and the environment in relation to the engineers' work.

The researchers, Osmo and Landau, sought to examine the relationship between the prevailing ethical theories, the existing ethical dilemmas, and the increase in ethical issues, the idea of ethical decision-making, and the existing problems in [...]

Is friendship possible in the modern world dominated by pragmatism and will it exist in the future? For instance, Cicero takes the point of view of the social entity, in other words, he defines friendship [...]

John is also likely to create lower pleasures of food and entertainment to his family compared to the higher preferences that can be offered to the veterans. Kant might probably suggest that John should use [...]

Sources reviewed to support the proposition that killer whales should not be used for entertainment and sports. However, I need to do additional research from sources that support the use of killer whales for sports [...]

The two players in the podcast 'Al Dura - What really happened?' are the FR2 Television Network who showed the raw video clip and the Palestinian government.

The topic "Ethics and Gender" highlights the major challenges affecting many people in the society. The essay presents the best arguments in order to support the importance of this topic.

The public opinion has been unequivocal as well: the greed deserves the scorn; it is unacceptable in the context of the social propriety.