Discussion Chapter One: Making Ethical Decisions

Throughout the textbook, you will see a box in each chapter called “Making Ethical Decisions.” You will be given a short description of a situation and then asked what you would do in that situation. It is up to you to decide whether you will read these situations or not. I will have no real way of knowing if you read the boxes and answered the questions. Hence, reading them will be “on your honor.”

This is your first ethical situation in this course: You come to a “Making Ethical Decisions” box in your text. What do you decide to do? Read and answer the questions or skip it and go on? Post your decision to the discussion board and the reasons why you chose that decision. The questions below are a guide you can use to determine exactly what you will do. Don’t post your answers to these questions on the board, rather just post your decision as to what you will do.

What is the problem?

What are your alternatives?

What are the effects of each alternative?

Which alternative will you choose? Why?

Is your choice ethical? (Would you want your family and professor to know of your decision? Would you want it printed in the school paper? Is it fair to all parties involved?)

Don’t make this too stressful an exercise. You will get credit based on your participation and not on your decision.

Click the Discuss button below to go to the discussion board.