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Life Skills - Understanding Ethics Exercise
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In your professional and personal lives, your personal ethics will guide you through your life. Your ethics are built on your values, attitudes, morals, beliefs, and behaviors among other influences in your life. Your value system was developed over time through influences from your family, religion, ethic background, culture, friends, education, etc., which in turn developed into your moral standards. In addition, as your life experiences and education expand so does your understanding of the complexities with regards to ethical decisions and ethical dilemmas. Your personal value system is unique to you. This exercise will help you understand your ethical and moral standards. Comment on the following seven questions. Make sure you have read through Chapter 1 of the text before you start. Provide a minimum of 1 paragraph (3-5 sentences) for each element of the assignment. Proper length and appropriate articulation required for full points.
1.
Clearly articulate your personal values?
My most important personal value revolves around helping others, especially when it is evident that they are struggling. Whether this be a stranger or your closest friend. We truly have no idea what a person is going through, regardless of how close we may be to them. Following that, it is important to do this in the humblest way possible. Helping others should not be done for recognition or for a reward of some kind. It should be done with the utmost integrity. 2.
Where do you think your personal values and morals came from?
My personal values and morals come from seeing what I did not want to do. I saw so many situations where there were people who really needed a helping
hand, even if it was taking the time to have a small conversation, left in the dust. I
have had several people in my life who ended up committing suicide. Two good friends and my grandfather took their own lives. I always wondered if there had been others who held similar values around to be a support for these people if they would still be here with us. Another situation that has always stuck with me
is there was a girl in my high school who had mental health issues. She was made
fun of all the time, and I could see the hurt in her eyes. I would always ask her to come sit with me at lunch and ask her to sit next to me in any classes we had together. It was not until 15 years later that she told me that taking those few moments to talk to her were what stopped her many times from attempting to take her own life. At the time I had no clue that was the case, you just never know how much a simple hello can mean to a person.
3.
Write your definition of what you think ethics means to you?
To me ethics means operating in such a way that it results in a positive impact. It means doing things in such a manner that does not cause harm to other people intentionally. It also means taking responsibility for your actions, which means it is extremely important to think about the things I do before acting.
4.
Do you think your personal values and morals and ethical behavior can ever be challenged? If so, how and why? If not, how and why? Yes, I do believe my personal values, morals, and ethical behaviors can be challenged. There are times when it can feel like people expect me to set aside what I need to do for my life to help them with theirs. Once it is expected of me to be like that and my life situations are not even a consideration, it becomes hard to operate in a way that reflects my personal values and morals. There are times when I get burnt out, especially when I am struggling in my own life. I do not expect anyone to do for me the things I would do for them. Sometimes it becomes hard to find a healthy balance that still allows me to progress in my own life. 5.
What might you be willing to do or how far can you stretch your personal values when faced with an ethical decision or in the middle of an ethical dilemma when others are involved?
There are times I will set aside the things I need to do to operate the way I feel is right. It can become detrimental to my own life, and it is something that I struggle with finding healthy boundaries. There have been times, especially after my head injury, that I did not have the strength to operate this way and for a while I felt like I had to set aside my personal values and morals to regain strength. I try to remind myself of the example of the air mask in an airplane. You must put your mask on
first, then help whoever put their mask on. If you cannot breathe, how can you help anyone?
6. Of the Ethical Theories listed in Chapter 1 of your book, which one closely aligns with your personal ethics and why?
7. Discuss an ethical dilemma you have had to deal with and how you handled it.
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