“Everybody’s doing it”, has come out of my mouth on several occasions, especially when I was a teenager. If everybody’s doing it, it must be o.k. That way of thinking, has caused me my share of trouble. One story that stayed with me for over 35 years is when my high school basketball team won the state championship. Our coach decided to have a cookout at her home in our honor. Not only were we invited, but some of her adult friends as well. She had sodas for the team, but alcohol for the adults. One team mate stated that if she stole the alcohol we all had to take a drink. We all said no, but eventually one by one, we all agreed.
She brought in a blender of daiquiri first, and after we made up in our mind, that we really wasn’t drinking alcohol, …show more content…
Even though our parents gave us money, we decided that we can purchase one ticket and the other person can open the side door and let us in free. We decided to try this because we had seen it done on numerous occasions by others. I left my money in my blue jean’s pocket and my mother found it while doing laundry. She wanted to know how I still had the money that she gave me for the movies. She immediately thought that I didn’t go to the movies, but decided to venture off to some other place that I didn’t have permission to go. Either I tell the truth or a lie; it didn’t matter because I was going to be in trouble. I had to return to the movie theater to pay for my ticket and the other parents were also notified.
On both occasions, I chose to follow the crowd and lie to try to keep from getting into trouble. I found that if I had done the right thing, I wouldn’t have had to lie or try to cover up my bad decision of doing it because everybody else around me was doing it. I had a moral obligation to do the right thing, regardless of how others may have felt about my decision. This viewpoint aligns with Kant’s Categorical
She brought in a blender of daiquiri first, and after we made up in our mind, that we really wasn’t drinking alcohol, …show more content…
Even though our parents gave us money, we decided that we can purchase one ticket and the other person can open the side door and let us in free. We decided to try this because we had seen it done on numerous occasions by others. I left my money in my blue jean’s pocket and my mother found it while doing laundry. She wanted to know how I still had the money that she gave me for the movies. She immediately thought that I didn’t go to the movies, but decided to venture off to some other place that I didn’t have permission to go. Either I tell the truth or a lie; it didn’t matter because I was going to be in trouble. I had to return to the movie theater to pay for my ticket and the other parents were also notified.
On both occasions, I chose to follow the crowd and lie to try to keep from getting into trouble. I found that if I had done the right thing, I wouldn’t have had to lie or try to cover up my bad decision of doing it because everybody else around me was doing it. I had a moral obligation to do the right thing, regardless of how others may have felt about my decision. This viewpoint aligns with Kant’s Categorical