Ethics: Should They Deserve To Be In Prison

Throughout the fourth unit, we discussed ethics. We started out by stating that we are presented with five different doors (reality, knowing, God, humanity, and ethics). Whichever one you enter in skews the view of the others. For our generation, we typically enter through the door of ethics. I can personally see this in today’s world. As a generation, we are very concerned with what is ethically right. This can be seen with our own humankind as well as animals. Whenever I get on Facebook, I often see videos of cops mistreating individuals and even videos of animals being mistreated. The tag with these videos usually has to do with something along the lines of this is unethical; this person deserves to be in prison. I’m not saying …show more content…
Everyone gets emotional about some sort of topic and the ethics that come along with it. By being a psychology major, ethics is very concerning to me. All the well-known experiments conducted in my field can no longer be repeated due to ethics. The one that stands out to me is the Stanford Prison Experiment. This is where students were both the prisoners and the jailors. As the experiment progressed, the experimenter saw that the students who were jailors were ruthless as if this were their actual job. As the experiment progressed, the people in “prison” were put at risk and the experiment had to be ended early. Due to ethical standards, nothing along these lines can ever be produced again. This experiment and many others have helped to show me that human life is very valuable. Before deciding to study psychology, I had a high ethical standard for human life. Now almost halfway through my major, I now know how to vocalize those ethics. This will translate into my future career as I care for those who have some sort of mental illness. They deserve the best treatment possible and care that I can …show more content…
It is very easy for people to think about what they think is ethical and what is not. As I’ve been at Concordia, I have developed the ability to think critically about the world around me. As I came to Concordia as a freshman, I did not vocalize my opinion and kind of accepted things for how they were. Thanks to many of my professors, I have learned that I do not have to take what I learn as the only truth. I have been encouraged to find things for myself and develop myself through my studies. This has helped me develop my process of ethical decision-making as well. Every individual has a different way of analyzing what goes on around him or her. This is nice to know, as I am not forced to think of ethics in a way I personally cannot. For example, what is legal may not be ethical for every person. The third major component of ethical decision-making is will/determination. This was kind of confusing for me as we studied ethics. As I understood ethics, I thought of black and white decisions. As it turns out, this is not the case. If you are emotional about a topic and think about it thoroughly, you will develop the determination to make it a priority. This is important to every individual, because if you have the determination on an ethical issue, it will develop into a