Sara Waseem
Student ID: 26620167
Group: 04 Study Guide Questions
Chapter 1
Question: Imagine that you are returning merchandise to a large department store. The value of the merchandise is $500. As you are returning the goods, you notice what you think is an error on the part of the clerk. Instead of crediting your account the proper $500 amount, the clerk credits your account with $1,000. In order to come to a correct understanding of what has happened in this example which will allow you to decide what it is you should do, identify how the five operations of moral questioning found in Chapter one play out in this example: What is it? Is it so? What am I going to do? Is that action the …show more content…
Is it so?
The clerk has given me a total of $1000 in return instead of giving me $500 dollars which was the value of the merchandise that I was returning. Thus, the clerk has made an error and is giving me more money than I should get back.
What am I going to do?
I could either tell the clerk that they have a mistake so that they could rectify the error or I could walk out with the extra money and not say anything. I am going to choose to tell the clerk that they have made an error.
Is that action the right thing to do?
It is the right thing to do because deceiving the clerk and the department store and taking the money would be morally unacceptable and wrong.
Are you going to do it?
Yes, I am going to do it because it would not sit right with my conscience to take money that does not belong to me and that I am the one who is responsible for the department store’s loss.
Chapter 2
Question: Describe the characteristics of drunk driving by answering the following questions: What are the contexts? What might be some of the intentions of a drunk driver?
What are the larger social structures that are affected by drunk driving? Explain the moral characteristics of drunk driving in terms of the three meanings of the term good (personal desire, social order, and longer range progress or decline of the social order (social structure)
Student ID: 26620167
Group: 04 Study Guide Questions
Chapter 1
Question: Imagine that you are returning merchandise to a large department store. The value of the merchandise is $500. As you are returning the goods, you notice what you think is an error on the part of the clerk. Instead of crediting your account the proper $500 amount, the clerk credits your account with $1,000. In order to come to a correct understanding of what has happened in this example which will allow you to decide what it is you should do, identify how the five operations of moral questioning found in Chapter one play out in this example: What is it? Is it so? What am I going to do? Is that action the …show more content…
Is it so?
The clerk has given me a total of $1000 in return instead of giving me $500 dollars which was the value of the merchandise that I was returning. Thus, the clerk has made an error and is giving me more money than I should get back.
What am I going to do?
I could either tell the clerk that they have a mistake so that they could rectify the error or I could walk out with the extra money and not say anything. I am going to choose to tell the clerk that they have made an error.
Is that action the right thing to do?
It is the right thing to do because deceiving the clerk and the department store and taking the money would be morally unacceptable and wrong.
Are you going to do it?
Yes, I am going to do it because it would not sit right with my conscience to take money that does not belong to me and that I am the one who is responsible for the department store’s loss.
Chapter 2
Question: Describe the characteristics of drunk driving by answering the following questions: What are the contexts? What might be some of the intentions of a drunk driver?
What are the larger social structures that are affected by drunk driving? Explain the moral characteristics of drunk driving in terms of the three meanings of the term good (personal desire, social order, and longer range progress or decline of the social order (social structure)