The FIORD Method

FIORD is an acronym that stands for; Facts, issues, options, recommendation, and decision. It is used to help people with ethical dilemmas and complications. This can be extremely beneficial in the work place. Though, it can also be extremely beneficial in every life decisions. Today, I would like to discuss my experience with community day using the FIORD Method. I will start with the facts. For community day our dignitas class went to Hawks ridge. Our role was to cut down Buckthorn, which is an invasive tree. Though, there was some issues with this. There are some people that believed this was wrong. They thought that plants should have the right to grow, otherwise known as tree huggers. Cutting down trees can also lessen the C02 in the air. This was required for our dignitas class, so we did not really have much …show more content…
We could either take the saw and cut down the buckthorn, we could use a spray on the stump so that the tree could not grow back, or we could hall away the buckthorn out of the way. There are some consequences with each of these tasks. First off, if you are cutting down the tree, you are killing it and this could go against any of your personal morals. If you are spraying the stump, this could go against your morals because than the tree cannot grow back, therefor, killing it for good. The last option was hauling away the tree. This doesn’t have much of a consequence, unless you have a problem with helping killing the buckthorn. The impact that this could have on the community can be both a positive and a negative. The positive being that there are less invasive buckthorn at Hawk Ridge, which means it gives more trees and plants more room to grown. The negative being that people of the community might have a problem with us killing this tree, since they might believe killing anything is wrong. The recommendation that I personally had was to cut down the buckthorn. I recommend this because of the way I