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A. Personal Dilemmas: 1. What Is A Moral Dilemma?

The document discusses what a moral dilemma is and defines it as a situation where available choices do not allow for moral outcomes. It then describes three levels of moral dilemmas: personal dilemmas involving individual decisions, organizational dilemmas involving businesses and institutions, and structural dilemmas involving networks of institutions and addressing issues on a large scale.

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A. Personal Dilemmas: 1. What Is A Moral Dilemma?

The document discusses what a moral dilemma is and defines it as a situation where available choices do not allow for moral outcomes. It then describes three levels of moral dilemmas: personal dilemmas involving individual decisions, organizational dilemmas involving businesses and institutions, and structural dilemmas involving networks of institutions and addressing issues on a large scale.

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1. What is a Moral Dilemma?

A moral dilemma exists when available choices and obligations do not allow for moral outcomes. In
such instances, a choice or an action is anticipated or required, and all of the available alternatives
violate some moral obligation. Moral dilemmas are not uncommon when organizations and
individuals are working to satisfy competing interests, or when personal morals and professional
obligations are directly opposed.

2. What are the three levels of Moral Dilemma

a. Personal Dilemmas
- Simply put, these personal dilemmas are those experienced and resolved on the personal
level. Since many ethical decisions are personally made, many, if not most of, moral dilemmas fall
under, or boil down to, this level.

TWO EXAMPLES:

1. Deciding which parent to live with

2. Choosing between cleaning the house or cleaning your room

b. Organizational Dilemmas
Basically, ethical cases encountered and resolved by social organizations are organizational
moral dilemmas. This category includes moral dilemmas in business, medical field, and public
sector.

TWO EXAMPLES:

1. Having to face with the pressures of meeting with the expectations of employees to increase
salaries/wages annually even though the business may not be profitable or when there is an
ongoing exercise to reduce and ‘cut costs’ company-wide,
2. businesses producing vaccines wanting to make quick profits and take advantage of the
Covid19 pandemic even though people are suffering and dying worldwide,

c. Structural Dilemmas
These structural moral dilemmas pertain to cases involving network of institutions and
operative theoretical paradigms. As they usually encompass multi-sectoral institutions and
organizations, they may be larger in scope and extent than organizational dilemmas.
TWO EXAMPLES:

1. Climate change: It is a global problem that requires collective action from all countries to
mitigate its effects . However, some countries may prioritize their economic interests over
environmental concerns.

2. Universal Health Care (UHC): It is the provision of the highest possible quality of health care
that is accessible, efficient, equitably distributed, adequately funded, fairly financed, and
accountable to every Filipino . However, the implementation of UHC in the Philippines has been
met with challenges such as inadequate funding and lack of health care professionals .

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