...they should accept the responsibility that comes with producing a child. Therefore, the answer is not to get rid of the life that is to form into a newborn. Caring for the child is the right choice to be made. Why is keeping the child the correct answer you may ask? It's quite simple it's the right thing to do. Even if at the moment the soon to be mother believes it's not. That's the problem right there. She's thinking of herself instead of the bigger picture. In this case, it's the child. Just because the child has not yet a voice, how does that make it right to believe that it doesn't deserve the right to live? Exactly, this soon to be child does deserve the right to be born. Even if you think it’s right to abort a child just because it’s interfering with the mother’s responsibilities that doesn’t mean it gives them the right to abort a child. The statistics state that there are 1.3 million women who obtain abortions each year. But the large majority choose termination in response to an unintended pregnancy. However, "unintended pregnancy" does not fully capture the reasons and life circumstances that lie behind a woman's decision to obtain an abortion. (Finer, 2005, pp.9) How would you feel if you were created but you find out...
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...because I believe that my civic identity is similar to my overall identity as a person. It’s really important to me now because having a strong civic identity helps me to gain the confidence to be involved and participate in school activities and give back to the school and to the community by volunteering and by putting the time to participate in many activities. I also think it’s very important because my civic identity allows me to be aware of what’s going on in the government and helps to think about the issues all throughout the valley and the nation. I believe that knowing more about the government and knowing more about the laws helps my identity and my future decisions. For example, my future plan to register once I turn 18. Most...
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...1.Knowing yourself inside and out better than ever. That you are responsible on every decisions you make in your life. And truly allowing your natural way of being as this human form that you are, to live out your natural expression, living in tune with who you are, and this is what makes you feel whole. 2.) Decidophobia is the fear of making decisions. Examples : A.)First is when I entered college. I really can't decide on what course I will take. I am afraid that my decision might affect my future goals. B.) Second, I am unsure whether to pursue my call center career last vacation which calls for a graveyard shift. C.) Lastly, it’s about my personal life. What to do with my former boyfriend. Leave him or continue my relationship with him. 3. Decidophobia is the overwhelming, irrational fear of making decisions. The person coping with this phobia is painfully aware that life if full of choices and decisions are made based on those choices. The decidophobic individual may actually fear making the wrong decision and so is paralyzed from making any decision at all. What Causes Decidophobia? The person coping with Decidophobia has experienced a traumatic, real-life event. That experience is then automatically associated with making decisions. Perhaps, as a child, the decidophobic individual was never encouraged to make independent decisions that were well thought out. Maybe this person was consistently encouraged to simply go along with the majority or the status...
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...this life is to learn to act for ourselves. Learn to see a situation correctly and act righteously. In this paper I wish to discuss many of the thoughts I have had recently on setting a pattern for making ethical decisions throughout my life. I will present many of the traps I have fallen into or observed in others. Everyday I'm faced with decisions of right and wrong, most of which are easily and correctly dealt with. Sometimes however, decisions need to be made that are not easy or clear-cut. They require thought and often prayer. I like to draw on past experience to make comparisons that help give insight to new problems. Many times, however past experiences cannot be related to present problems and can confuse and obscure possibilities. Even the opinions or actions of friends faced with similar dilemmas may not be helpful. Often you feel pressured by piers that say, "it's no big deal", or "you'll understand later". It's important that I understand why a particular action or resolution is correct or incorrect. If I can't or don't it's difficult to feel I've been honest with myself. That for me can be a good measure of ethical behavior, my conscience. The ideal way to deal with difficult questions is to have a foolproof formula. Find steps that will always lead to correct decisions. Unfortunately I do not yet have such a formula and often learn by hard experience right and wrong. Let me start by saying I firmly believe the formula exists,...
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...Introduction II. Ethical Dilemmas A. The Layoff III. Prescriptive Approaches to Ethical Decision Making in Business A. Focus on Consequences (Consequentialist Theories) B. Focus on Duties, Obligations, and Principles (Deontological Theories) C. Focus on Integrity (Virtue Ethics) IV. Eight Steps to Sound Ethical Decision Making in Business A. Step One: Gather the Facts B. Step Two: Define the Ethical Issues C. Step Three: Identify the Affected Parties (the Stakeholders) D. Step Four: Identify the Consequences E. Step Five: Identify the Obligations F. Step Six: Consider Your Character and Integrity G. Step Seven: Think Creatively about Potential Actions H. Step Eight: Check Your Gut V. Practical Preventive Medicine A. Doing Your Homework B. When You’re Asked to Make a Snap Decision VI. Conclusion VII. Discussion Questions VIII. Exercise: Clarifying Your Values IX. Case: Pinto Fires Teaching Notes – Discussion Questions 1. If you had to choose just one of the philosophical approaches discussed in this chapter to guide your decision making, which would you choose? Why? Or, if you had to rank them from most to least helpful, how would you rank them? Probes to Stimulate Discussion "Think about your own ethical decision making. Do you already use any or all of these approaches? Separately or in combination?" "Consider looking into...
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...Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut? Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychologist Gary Klein debate the power and perils of intuition for senior executives. For two scholars representing opposing schools of thought, Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein find a surprising amount of common ground. Kahneman, a psychologist, won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2002 for prospect theory, which helps explain the sometimes counterintuitive choices people make under uncertainty. Klein, a senior scientist at MacroCognition, has focused on the power of intuition to support good decision making in high-pressure environments, such as firefighting and intensive-care units. In a September 2009 American Psychology article titled “Conditions for intuitive expertise: A failure to disagree,” Kahneman and Klein debated the circumstances in which intuition would yield good decision making. In this interview with Olivier Sibony, a director in McKinsey’s Brussels office, and Dan Lovallo, a professor at the University of Sydney and an adviser to McKinsey, Kahneman and Klein explore the power and perils of intuition for senior executives. 3 March 2010 “ My general view would be that you should not take your intuitions at face value; overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel laureate and a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. He is also a fellow at the Hebrew University...
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...own value to the business ------------------------------------------------- Transcript Philippa Lamb: According to a recent CIPD survey two in every three HR leaders believe they play an integral role in strategy making at the organisations where they work. The bad news is that only one in three business leaders agrees with them. So what’s causing that perception gap? Is HR overestimating the value it adds or is the profession just failing to demonstrate that value to senior management in a convincing way? I asked Peter Cheese Chief Executive of the CIPD why he thinks so many business leaders still don’t see HR as integral to strategy. Peter Cheese: It’s still therefore a reflection of the concern we’ve talked about for many years in the world of HR about how do we get the proverbial seat at the table, seen to be integral. It clearly has to be still a reflection that whatever business leaders feel is on their agenda HR is not either able to engage with that agenda or use the language that makes business leaders understand why, what HR people worry about should be part of the agenda but we still clearly haven’t fully closed that loop and I think in the context of this conversation part of it is still being able to talk in more quantitative terms about what we mean and many environments of course such as engineering and finance and so forth the culture is very, very numbers and analytical driven and we have to be able to respond to those sorts of contexts. PL: The key...
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...Spotless Mind. I will argue to the claim about the minds inconsistency in making decisions and why do people tend to escape from their destined life, the emotions conquering our decisions that we are making, and so, also some thoughts and points that I would like to argue about the film. The First or rather striking part is that Joel who met Clementine at the Montauk. Draw from their different personalities they became lovers. And an argument follows which results or makes a life decision and that decision is to erase all of their memory about Clementine and as so Clementine did it before he has done it... In that case they have both tried to become strangers in a way of erasing their memories... Secondly is Joel’s dreaming part in the movie, or in which case is, the memory clearing part. It automatically strikes me as a viewer that Joel try to escape from the real situation, even if his memory is being cleared and even it is not possible to bring it back or to stop it, he still fought for his feelings, and I’ll be arguing also with the following topics... Thirdly is what happened to Joel and Clementine at the start and at the end of the said. At the first cycle is that it so happens that they had a bad relationship which resulted in to forgetting each other. And at the second cycle they’ve become strangers again and so finding out what they did in the first cycle. This resulted into correcting what they have done wrong in the past cycle. The fourth thing that comes...
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...life was to achieve 'happiness' and avoid 'pain'. He wanted to produce a different approach to moral decision making to suit the advancing society of the industrial age and argued that "natural rights is simple nonsense".This principle focuses on the individual action and the consequences that come with it. His moral rule was the 'Principle of Utility' which clearly stated that we should aim to achieve the 'greatest good for the greatest number', therefore he equated moral goodness with happiness. Bentham then created the 'hedonic calculus' to measure happiness and show the process for making moral decisions; it included seven key criteria: intensity, duration, certainty, extent, remoteness, richness and purity. Overall, the calculus gave the principle reason and allowed people to understand what was classed as a morally correct act in terms of 'happiness'. Considering the consequences of an action is a sensible approach which is not outgrown by society as it's flexible and can be applied to any situation under any circumstances; however, the fact that it is so flexible and that there are very few solid rules means that it's open to subjectivism. As each culture has different beliefs, it doesn't allow for a clear understanding of what is actually right or wrong so it would be very confusing when labelling each action. Nevertheless, the theory enables tough decision making as it's relativistic, for example, it would be seen as acceptable for a soldier to kill an enemy soldier during...
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...life was to achieve 'happiness' and avoid 'pain'. He wanted to produce a different approach to moral decision making to suit the advancing society of the industrial age and argued that "natural rights is simple nonsense".This principle focuses on the individual action and the consequences that come with it. His moral rule was the 'Principle of Utility' which clearly stated that we should aim to achieve the 'greatest good for the greatest number', therefore he equated moral goodness with happiness. Bentham then created the 'hedonic calculus' to measure happiness and show the process for making moral decisions; it included seven key criteria: intensity, duration, certainty, extent, remoteness, richness and purity. Overall, the calculus gave the principle reason and allowed people to understand what was classed as a morally correct act in terms of 'happiness'. Considering the consequences of an action is a sensible approach which is not outgrown by society as it's flexible and can be applied to any situation under any circumstances; however, the fact that it is so flexible and that there are very few solid rules means that it's open to subjectivism. As each culture has different beliefs, it doesn't allow for a clear understanding of what is actually right or wrong so it would be very confusing when labelling each action. Nevertheless, the theory enables tough decision making as it's relativistic, for example, it would be seen as acceptable for a soldier to kill an enemy soldier during...
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...individual’s ability to convey effective skills of communication relating to one’s own interests. This entails making sound decisions, taking responsibility for those decisions and knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Self-advocacy is an individual’s ability to convey effective skills of communication relating to one’s own interests. The communicator needs to be an effective listener as well. Not just do all of the talking. Allow whomever is talking to present their views and decide what you would like to take from what they are saying and make it pertain to you. Self-advocacy is also speaking up for yourself and learning how to assert yourself effectively. It’s making decisions that pertain to you and your life. It’s also finding out who will support you on your journey to success in college and future endeavors. Another important factor in being successful in college as well as in any endeavor and being responsible is knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Utilize your strengths to your advantage. Be direct yet tactful when relaying your strengths. It is always important to respect others. For example, if you are a leader, speak with conviction without being inconsiderate. Also, allow those that you lead to give input. Listen carefully to what the person is saying and ask questions so that you have a clear understanding of what it is precisely that they are relaying to you. Your strength of effective communication in college can lay the foundation to a plethora of successes...
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...6 is about Free will and determinism. Nagel explains Free will is making your own choice and/or choosing something because you wanted to. He expresses it as an opportunity for you to choose either “A or B”. When you pick the preferred one, you could have chosen the other if you wanted to, but your Free will choose the one you wanted. He then explains that you may have Free will, but in reality it was already determined. Which is called determinism. Determinism is when the action or choice you have made was determined by certain circumstances, saying that whatever your actions led to was inevitable doing to your upbringing or just who you are as person. He even compares that the decisions we make are as responsible as a dog or cat. Free will to me is doing what you please knowing the consequences of your action. Everyone demonstrates free will differently do to boundaries we have set upon ourselves. Everyday when I wake up, I have the free will to choose what I...
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...Diane Vickers Critical Thinking and Ethics What is Critical thinking and Ethics? Critical Thinking is clear reasonable thinking and it is a part of everyday life and living. It’s a skill that will never go out of style. It frees us from nonsense and self-deception. Being a critical thinker can go beyond such self-justifying statements. Acquiring the ability is a major goal you should have. It informs reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Within having the critical thinking ability or skill you should know there are six levels of thinking: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating, which are always useful. These levels will bring you to know the two types of thinking. Convergent and Divergent. Convergent involves narrowing down the process. Divergent is the opening up process. Ethics, the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct in an area of study that’s deals with and is based on ideas about what is good and bad behavior, or what is right and what is wrong. There are three major areas of study within ethics you should know. Meta-ethics, Normative ethics, and Applied ethics. Meta-ethics concerns the meaning and reference of moral propositions. Normative ethics concerns practical means to determine a better course of action. Applied ethics concerns what a person is obligated to do in a situation. When showing good ethics you have to have a good attitude about things. Having...
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...To know when you were going to die would be horrifying but not knowing would be just as horrifying. This would be a very important decision to make. If I were in that situation, I would probably choose to turn over the paper and accept my death. My first reason why I would turn over the paper would be, making the most of what you have left. You would be able to make the most of what is left of your life and spend it all up to the last second you have left. You could use the time to spend time with your family and do fun things for the last time with them. Another reason why I would choose to turn over the paper would be, because I would be prepared to die. You would be ready for it, when you die plus, you could prepare and get ready for it...
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...established managerial structure is good because then there is authority and everyone kind of knows their place. We know who is responsible for making what decisions and so on. I think that it’s necessary to have a managerial structure to help prevent chaos, otherwise you might end up with a lot of people saying “you can’t tell me what to do.” I definitely think there are some disadvantages when it comes to having an established managerial structure as well. A lot of times, employees feel like they can’t make certain decisions or do certain things without their manager’s approval. There have been times at work that my boss is on PTO, but someone will email him needing an immediate approval for something in order to fix an issue that we are having with a client. A lot of times, the people then email me asking to approve in his absence, but I don’t actually have the authority to make the approval, so then I have to reach out to my boss who is supposed to be off work, and the client’s issue is further delayed. So I can see how having a managerial structure is both good and bad, but I do think it’s necessary, no matter what. 2 - Discuss how delegation / decentralization can be both an asset and a detriment to a manager Delegation can be an asset because like our book states, it gives the manager more time for other decision making, monitoring, planning, etc. Another reason why it could be an asset though is because most employees like being given tasks that would normally...
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