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Ethics Class INSTRUCTIONS: Answer The Following Ethical Problems/dilemmas Using The Four

The document provides instructions for answering 5 ethical dilemmas or problems using a 4-step process. For each problem, students must: 1) study the case details, 2) identify relevant criteria like obligations and consequences, 3) determine possible courses of action, and 4) decide the most ethical action. The 5 dilemmas address issues like celebrity endorsements, sexual promiscuity, refusing blood transfusions, police surveillance powers, and underworking or overworking as students.

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Ethics Class INSTRUCTIONS: Answer The Following Ethical Problems/dilemmas Using The Four

The document provides instructions for answering 5 ethical dilemmas or problems using a 4-step process. For each problem, students must: 1) study the case details, 2) identify relevant criteria like obligations and consequences, 3) determine possible courses of action, and 4) decide the most ethical action. The 5 dilemmas address issues like celebrity endorsements, sexual promiscuity, refusing blood transfusions, police surveillance powers, and underworking or overworking as students.

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ETHICS CLASS

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following ethical problems/dilemmas using the four (4)
steps hereinafter enumerated. As such, your answer to each problem should be
divided into four (4) parts.

The answers in this activity should largely be your own. For parts where relevant
authorities and/or expert commentaries are necessary, you may do so, but kindly cite
your sources as you use them, and not at the end of the document. Plagiarised
statements and/or concepts shall not be given credit. Answers should be
handwritten, which will be submitted to this email (atorni.luna813@gmail.com) either
by scanning or taking pictures of the same.

The deadline for this is on June 12, 2020. Thank you and stay safe!

 Step 1: STUDY DETAILS OF THE CASE


Cite and lay down all relevant details provided in the problem. Note what
circumstances distinguish this case from similar ones. If there are details that
you believe are unavailable yet important, consider what they might be,
provided that they are still related with the problem itself.

 Step 2: IDENTIFY THE RELEVANT CRITERIA


2.a) Consider and cite any obligations that might exist among the individuals
involved – for example: contractual obligations, obligations of friendship or
citizenship, business or professional obligations.

2.b) Consider and cite relevant socially acceptable ideals – for example:
prudence, justice, temperance, courage, kindness, honesty, compassion,
forgiveness, repentance, gratitude and beneficence.

2.c) Consider and cite all significant consequences –direct and indirect;
obvious and subtle; immediate and delayed; physical, emotional, and
intellectual; intended and unintended – of the action on the person performing
the act as well as on others.

2.d) Consider and cite applicable ethical theory/doctrine that we discussed in


class, including Kantian ethics.

Explain all the obligations, ideals and ethical theories that you will cite.

 Step 3: DETERMINE POSSIBLE COURSES OF ACTION


Identify and cite the various alternative responses to the situation. Note that
this step may require you to use your imagination.

 Step 4: DECIDE WHICH ACTION IS MOST ETHICAL


In light of the aforementioned criteria and considerations, decide which
response is ethically preferable. Explain your answer thoroughly.

PROBLEMS:

1. One device increasingly used in modern advertising is the testimonial. An athlete,


former politician, or movie/TV star is paid hundreds of thousands of pesos to lend his
or her name to a product and become its spokesperson. The celebrity recites
someone else’s words to praise something he or she may not even use in order to
influence readers or viewers to use the product. Discuss the ethical issues this
advertising practice raises.

2. Sexual promiscuity is frequent indulgence in intercourse with a variety of partners,


indiscriminately selected. Is sexual promiscuity immoral? Explain.

3. Members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious sect believe that blood transfusion
is sinful. If they or their children suffer a serious accident and lose enough blood to
require transfusion, they must in conscience refuse it. This poses a dilemma for
attending physicians. Consider the following cases and decide whether the physician
should or should not administer the transfusion. (In each case, the patient is not
likely to survive without the transfusion).

a. The patient is an adult and, while conscious, demands for her not to receive
blood.
b. The patient is an adult but is unconscious; his wife states that were he
conscious he would not accept blood.
c. The patient is a child; he is unconscious; his parents refuse to sign the
permission form.

4. The job of the police is to protect the health, safety and welfare of the general
public. To meet this responsibility, they obviously must not only prevent any activity
that threatens the public but also anticipate such activity before it actually threatens.
Many police officials believe that this latter responsibility is moral justification for
maintaining close surveillance of political actions groups and for dispersing large
groups of people listening to inflammatory political speeches. Others disagree,
claiming that this line reasoning leads to the denial of the constitutional rights of free
speech and free assembly and to the establishment of a police state. Which position
is more ethically justifiable?

5. Is it ethical for students not to work to their capacity? Is it ethical for them to study
so diligently that they strain the limits of their physical and emotional endurance?
Discuss the various degrees of underwork and overwork that occur among college
students and decide in what circumstances each becomes a moral issue.

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