ASSIGNMENT IN ETHICS
1. Do we have a moral responsibility towards less fortunate people?
2. Is it wrong to divulge a secret someone who has confided in you?
3. Should we eat meat? should we wear animal skins?
4. Should we try to keep people alive at all costs, no matter what their physical or mental condition?
5. Is it wrong to kill someone in self-defense?
6. Should people be given equal opportunities, regardless of race, religion, or gender?
7. Is it wrong to ridicule someone even if you believe it's in "good fun"?
8. Should you "bend the rules" to advance your career?
9. Is it all right to manipulate people into doing what you want if you believe it's for their own good?
10. Is there anything wrong with pornography?
11. Should we always try to take other people's needs into consideration when we act or should we first make sure that our own needs are taken care of?
12. Should we experiment with animals in order to improve the quality of our lives?
1. Do we have a moral responsibility towards less fortunate people?
- Yes, we have a moral responsibility to them, most especially if we have the means to help them, but not to the extend that they are already depending on us and with our help. Because sometimes helping them gives them the mentality that why would I work if there are many people who will go to help me?
2. Is it wrong to divulge a secret someone who has confided in you?
- Yes, most especially if I will divulge it just for revenge.He or she trusted me his/her secret so it's my responsibility to keep it and not to divulge it.
3. Should we eat meat? should we wear animal skins?
- I think yes, we should eat meat because it is a good source of protein, but we should limit it because anything that is excessive is not good. I think it depends on the place where do we live and to the culture also.
4. Should we try to keep people alive at all costs, no matter what their physical or mental condition?
- I think yes, because it's their right to live and if we really do love the person we should still keep him/ her alive no matter how it costs or no matter his/her condition.
5. Is it wrong to kill someone in self-defense?
- No, because it's our right to protect ourselves and what if the person who will going to kill me is really a killer and he/ she killed many people already so if Iwill kill him his bad activities will be stopped, so he/she could no longer kill anymore.
6. Should people be given equal opportunities, regardless of race, religion, or gender?
- Yes, because it's our right, and there should be an equal opportunity and treatment regardless of race, religion and gender because in the first place, it's not a standard as to how they work nor perform its up to the person on how he/she will do his/her job properly.
7. Is it wrong to ridicule someone even if you believe it's in "good fun"?
- Yes, given the freedom of speech does not entitle us to ridicule other people just for fun.
8. Should you "bend the rules" to advance your career?
- Of course not. If I will bend the rules just to advance my career, my self-confidence will go down and it will just haunt me throughout my life that I became successful because I did wrong from the past.So it's better to be successful that you do your best and all your capabilities just to reach your dream.
9. Is it all right to manipulate people into doing what you want if you believe it's for their own good?
- I think yes, as long as it will not harm her/him most especially if it's the best thing to do, to guide or manipulate him/her, but you must know your boundaries and limitations in manipulating him/her, because how could he/she become matured if all the time you're right there to tell or to guide him what is the best thing to do.
10. Is there anything wrong with pornography?
- Absolutely, it triggers people to do such crime like rape and harassment. It will just add up or fire up to their sensual libido of a person.
11. Should we always try to take other people's needs into consideration when we act or should we first make sure that our own needs are taken care of?
- It depends, when my family is involved I need to take into consideration their needs first than mine, butsometimes you need to be selfish so that you will satisfy yourself.
12. Should we experiment with animals in order to improve the quality of our lives?
- I think yes, most especially if it will help us to know what is the cure diseases or it will give us new knowledge about life. and we know for the fact that science is very broad, so we need to continue experimenting in order to discover new things and to improve the quality of human living.