Ethical decisions require increased thought and awareness of the potential consequences of ones actions. It can be tough to make an ethical decision and even harder to analyze a scenario and decide who was right and who was wrong. After reading Chapter 2 of Ethics for the Information Age, I began to familiarize myself with ways to go about a problem and how to reason through it. Everybody has different thoughts pertaining to what’s “right” and what’s “wrong”, but as I read through the chapter, I picked out four ideas that stood out to me the most in terms of importance.
One idea that stuck with me as I read was the notion that ethics focus on voluntary acts rather than involuntary acts. Ethics pertain to moral choices and do not apply to instances where the person is not actually making an ethical decision at that moment. This is highly significant when understanding if an event or an instance actually ties back to the person who performed the action. For example, when something happens by accident or by reflex, we need to understand that there were no moral or …show more content…
When making a decision, sometimes personal relationships are very much relevant, as noted in virtue ethics. We tend to act in ways that will benefit those around us, as we want to help them and care for them. This idea can help to explain some (but not all) decision-making. For example, understanding why personal relationships are important will help us to understand why a student had to miss school for their mother’s funeral. Personal relationships give us a significant viewpoint into the decisions made by other people and can sometimes be used to rationalize why something was done the way it was. The social aspect of our lives is a significant component to how we are raised and who we ultimately become. It is only fair to understand that the people closest to us are those that can affect our decisions the
One idea that stuck with me as I read was the notion that ethics focus on voluntary acts rather than involuntary acts. Ethics pertain to moral choices and do not apply to instances where the person is not actually making an ethical decision at that moment. This is highly significant when understanding if an event or an instance actually ties back to the person who performed the action. For example, when something happens by accident or by reflex, we need to understand that there were no moral or …show more content…
When making a decision, sometimes personal relationships are very much relevant, as noted in virtue ethics. We tend to act in ways that will benefit those around us, as we want to help them and care for them. This idea can help to explain some (but not all) decision-making. For example, understanding why personal relationships are important will help us to understand why a student had to miss school for their mother’s funeral. Personal relationships give us a significant viewpoint into the decisions made by other people and can sometimes be used to rationalize why something was done the way it was. The social aspect of our lives is a significant component to how we are raised and who we ultimately become. It is only fair to understand that the people closest to us are those that can affect our decisions the