War is generally considered to be an intense business. The choices made in war, also tend to matter a bit more than those made in another environment, like, for example, selling insurance in an office. Consequently, wars tend to lead to important moral and ethical dilemmas. Choices like whe...
In this article, the challenges and dilemmas surrounding dialysis and renal transplants in war zones, particularly in the Middle East using Gaza as a model, are discussed.doi:10.1016/j.semnephrol.2020.06.009Thalia Arawi PhDSeminars in Nephrology...
We look at how three movies put their characters through significant moral and ethical dilemmas. What would you do in each situation? Passengers On its 120-year journey to a distant colony, a spaceship carrying thousands of passengers, all asleep in suspended animation pods, suffers a malfunctio...
b.A theory or a system of moral values:"An ethic of service is at war with a craving for gain"(Gregg Easterbrook). 2.ethics(used with a sing. verb)The study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person; moral philosophy. ...
Moral dilemmas also provide interesting social matter for students to examine in position and research papers. Common topics for such assignments often include: The Death Penalty Doctor-Assisted Suicide Ending the Drug War The Draft Abortion Government Spying Prison Reform Legalizing (or decriminalizing...
Ethicaldilemma2 AbstractEthicaldilemmasare prevalent in all areas of life. In each helping profession‚ethicalguidelines and codes require that professionals act morally and in the best interest of the client. As a prospective counseling psychologist‚ I would need keen judgment to recognize and pro...
Rather, an Ethical Avatar creates the potential for wrestling with ethical dilemmas within a game world. Internally, as an expression of a game’s design, including an Ethical Avatar takes a position toward the game in which its data representation operates as a political entity, as a set of...
What follows in this article is an attempt to bring a philosophical perspective on an enterprise still in its tormented beginnings, rather like an essay on the applications of Just War Theory to the conduct of a particular conflict, written in a foxhole with the first shells of that conflict...
This article advances a critical analysis of John Rawls's justification of liberal democratic nuclear deterrence in the post-Cold War era as found in The Law of Peoples. Rawls's justification overlooked how nuclear-armed liberal democracies are ensnared in two intransigent ethical dilemmas: one in ...
7 Ethical Decision Making and Behavior As we practice resolving dilemmas we find ethics to be less a goal than a pathway, less a destination than a trip, less an inoculation than a process. —Ethicist Rushworth Kidder WHAT'S AHEAD This chapter surveys the components of ethical behavior—moral...