Category: Ethics

  • Social Workers Ethical Issues

    In a scenario where a colleague believes that a particular subset of clients does not deserve the same attention and care as other groups, several ethical issues arise. The most prominent value that social workers have to uphold is the person’s dignity and worth (National Association of Social Workers [NASW], 2017). It is vital to…

  • The Rule of the Golden Mean and the Virtue Ethics

    Virtue ethics states that practicing honesty, dignity, and generosity makes an individual a moral and virtuous person (MacKinnon & Fiala, 2018). From this perspective, Snowden’s action can be viewed as an act of virtue. Using his moral code and the vision of the situation, he preferred to report about numerous violations of basic human rights…

  • Engineering Ethics: Creative Middle Ground Approach

    Finding a creative middle ground is an essential strategy for issue resolution. It is sometimes feasible to identify a plan of action that satisfies both sides by using creative thinking but possibly not in the way that was initially intended (McGinn, 2018). However, there are situations when there is simply no creative middle ground or…

  • Critical Reasoning and Professional Ethics

    The ACM code of ethics is regarded as a collection of the principles, rules, laws, and even guidelines shaped to assist the computing professionals in making ethically responsible decisions while in professional practice. It also plays a key role in translating broad ethical ideas into more concrete statements regarding professional conduct. In addition, the update…

  • Ethical Lens in Developing Moral Competence

    Memorandum According to the golden rule, one should treat others how one wants to be treated in return. As a philosophical theory, the law of gold can be used to direct your actions in various situations, and many organizations throughout history have devised it. We will go into greater detail on this topic in the…

  • Ethics of Interrogation

    Introduction Research has recently resulted in an emerging scientific agreement about best practices to be applied in interrogation. Different government agencies and countries have started training their personnel in scientific interrogation methods that can be applied practically, and improvements in morality are made on old approaches that try to avoid the will of an interrogatee…

  • Importance of Ethics in Wartime

    “Ethics is the science that deals with conduct, in so far as this is considered as right and wrong, good or bad” (Dewey, 2998, p.1). Ethics is important in all spheres of human life as morality is the decisive factor that makes us human beings, that differs us from animals. Since human beings have to…

  • Ethical Self-Assessment

    Table of Contents Introduction Self-Assessment Findings Ethical Theory Identification Self-Assessment and Ethical Theory Conclusions References Introduction Ethics is very important for the human society, and various organizations establish their codes of ethics for their members to follow the organizational ethical values. The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) also has its code of ethics (ACHE,…

  • Engineering Ethics Education for Social Justice

    Table of Contents Ethical Dilemma Problems Faced Facts Issues Faced Relationship with Engineering Ethics Impediments to Responsibilities Ethical Approaches Ethical Canons References Incident at Morales is a case that provides the reader and the viewers with a moral problem that is arguably confronted at work and home and indicates the ability to attain an ethically…

  • Pharmaceutical Companies and Utilitarian Ethics

    Despite the fact that healthcare organizations have been raising awareness about opioid addictions and the problems caused by this epidemic in recent decades, it still remains a topical issue in many countries across the globe. One of the ethical questions often discussed in relation to this problem is whether pharmaceutical companies are morally obliged to…