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Name: Thomas C. DePew
Date: 11/19/2023
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Week 2 Assignment (3% of Grade)
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Lesson 2 Review: Conduct & Moral Responsibility
The purpose of this activity is to reinforce what you have learned so far about conduct and moral
responsibility.
1. How do religion, law, and philosophy each provide different grounds for justifying a moral principle?
How can each perspective be applied to the analysis of the moral principle “Stealing is wrong?
(Minimum word count: 60)
Looking at religious moral principles it is based on one’s belief system. This is to say that a higher power
or powers sets the principles that their followers must abide to. For example, in Christianity followers’
belief that they must follow God’s 10 commandments. In those commandments one is thou shall not
commit adultery. Now while in other religions it is morally acceptable to say have multiple partners or
even spouses in Christianity it is viewed as morally offensive to the god, they believe in and is prohibited.
Now law is defined as a morally inept act followed by consequences. Every country, state, county, city,
even villages have their own laws that citizens must abide by. In this case murder falls within this moral
principle and is punishable with time in prison, since it is against the law to murder someone, if murder
occurs then the person who committed this crime should be held accountable for their actions.
The previous two are written down somewhere for either everyone or certain people to follow either in
a bible or other religious book or somewhere in a code book available to all citizens for reference. Now
getting into philosophical perspective this is solely based on someone’s moralistic standpoints going back
to religion for a second to provide the example when it comes to adultery in the Christian faith it is
absolutely against the morals of god to commit adultery or simply to have an affair if you are married to
someone. Now shift that over to say the Mormon Church where it is morally acceptable to practice
polygamy or plural marriage which means that a man or woman can have multiple husbands or wives.
This example further proves that the philosophical perspective shows that the moral is implied on
someone’s personal moral values.
2. What are the basic differences separating ethicists from moralists? (Minimum word count: 60)
The differences are simple, and it all lays on how it is discussed. Moralists tend to push their agenda
more onto the other person than an ethicist would. A prime example of this is the discussion of physician
assisted suicide. Moralists will continue to push that doctors need to uphold the Hippocratic oath and
preserve life and not take it. Whereas on the other hand you have ethicist much like Dr. Kevorkian who
was a doctor who believed in physician assisted suicide for those that were suffering and were
essentially in hospice care and were inevitably going to die. His belief was that if someone was given
simply speaking a death sentence due to an illness such as cancer or something to that effect that he
was preserving life by assisting the patient in what as their final wishes.
3. Identify and briefly summarize four different kinds of “discussion stoppers” in ethical discourse.
(Minimum word count: 60)
People who disagree about morality, so how can we reach an agreement on moral issues, who are we to
judge and impose our own values on others, is morality a private or public matter, and is morality a point
different from cultures or groups determining for themselves. We all have disagreements on topics and
even though we cannot agree on all maters the one thing that can be agreed upon is that is that morality
should be dismissed. Some people are just not comfortable in situations here they are being judged
based on their moral values. Being a judgmental person is a learned trait as you grow you need to get
away from being judgmental while still making a moral decision in whatever situation you are in. Morals
should really be a private matter, but it quickly becomes public when laws are created. You see this
mainly in the news every single day when talking about Congress or Capitol Hill in general.
4. What is moral relativism? How is it different from cultural relativism? (Minimum word count: 60)
Moral relativism differs from cultural relativism in a way, but they are seemingly connected. While moral
relativism does not make moral judgments on culture moral behavior can be displayed within a group
and can be eventually accepted and considered normal. Cultural relativism is the assumption that the
group or communities’ belief system affect behavior that is morally right or morally wrong in a sense. So,
while they differ in meaning moral relativism and cultural relativism do have their differences but are
connected in more ways than many want to agree with.
5. What is moral objectivism, and how is it different from moral absolutism? (Minimum word count: 60)
Moral objectivism is a gray area between ethics and moralism. This is a disagreement between ethics,
moralists, and absolutists. Within perspective there absolutely can be a multitude of answers to moral
questions, even though there is an agreement or disagreement on more than one set of moral issues.
Objectivist suggests that moral dilemmas exist but are not limited to one definitive answer, but many
plausible solutions exist.
6. What is professional ethics? (Minimum word count: 60)
Professional ethics are applied ethics with moral decisions that need to be made that could affect other
professionals’ decisions. A good example of professional ethics would be the ethos of the Marine Corps
of Honor, Courage, and Commitment also known as the core values of the Marine Corps. It embraces
overall morals and values of the individual person while keeping the organization in mind. Every Marine
upholds those values as they joined the organization for a reason and saw that the values of the Marine
Corps aligned with their own personal morals and values and is making them a great asset to the Marine
Corps.
7. What is a profession, and who is a professional? (Minimum word count: 60)
Profession has been defined over time with association with a specific vocational job or occupation. A
person who has skills or mastery type knowledge within a particular field. A professional is someone
who can have an effect in social situations. Going back to the Dr. Kevorkian example from earlier, the
doctor thought he as helping to preserve life with his thoughts and beliefs on physician attempted
suicide, but it was brought to light by lawyers representing the families of the deceased by using the
argument that it should be a banned practice as the patients involved may not be in the right state of
mind. Which brings us to today and the states that support physician assisted suicide the process is long
but it ensures the mental stability and understanding of the patient before the act is carried out, and
even so the doctor never physically performs the procedure it is always carried out by the patient.
8. Who is a computer/IT professional? (Minimum word count: 60)
These professionals are personnel in the computing and information technology field that branch out to
different professions within the field. Fields that fall under Computer/IT professionals consist of software
engineers, hardware engineers, support specialists, network administrators, and programmers. From
here the specialties breakdown further into fields such as software development, user support, cyber
security, application development, and engineering.
9. Do computer/IT professionals have special moral responsibilities that ordinary computer users do not
have? (Minimum word count: 60)
Yes, there are different moral obligations regarding computer situations than those regarding regular
computer use. Software developers and engineers oversee in developing critical elements in software
that can either do good or cause irreparable harm and influence other to either cause harm or not to. A
good example would be banking software systems. These specific factors have a customer’s finances
involved and can be affected by those with say different moral responsibilities at hand in the
development.
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10. What are professional codes of ethics, and what functions do they serve? (Minimum word count: 60)
This is essentially the decision-making process in any profession. They guide and regulate everything and
everyone in specific areas of a profession. This code was designed to identify values and ideals through
basically trial and error through lessons learned, education, guidance, accountability, enforcement, and
inspiration. Overall this code is in place to guide the decision-making process and behavioral and ethical
enforcement by focusing on the appropriate actions that need to be taken if they are broken by anyone.