Ethics?

In this society, there are many case happened in our life. In my opinion, different people have different emotional and perception so legal and policies are very important in this society. Nowadays, robber case and unethical case are increasing day by day. After I have taking this subject, I realize that different people have different perception about those cases. It will make people easy to get into ethics dilemma situation. Basically, ethics are all about people try to live their lives according to a standard of “right” or “wrong” behavior. Ethics also concerned with how people act and how people live in their lives.

I still remember that one of the examples in lecture class is regarding child was stolen the bread from bakery shop as the child has been starved for few days. He steals the bread because his parents were not able to work and getting sick. He wants to resolve his meal but he has not money so that he chooses the way to get the bread but unfortunately it was get caught by the bakery shop staff. The child start to explain why he was stealing the bread is because he was not able to work and lack of skills so that he only can choose the way to steal the bread. Assume that you are the staff of bakery shop; will you put yourself into his shoes and empathy the child situation? When this scenario came out in the class, students were started to discuss it is the child action consider as ethical and the reason is acceptable in real life. Since different people have different perception so there are different answers from different students. Some of the students think that this is unethical action as steal is an unethical action in our real life. It is about legal and policies that provides a very important guide to ethical decision making. For my opinion, I also think that steal is an action that is not ethical in our life. However, some people think that this action can be acceptable as the child is not willing to steal but he is no money to buy the food. Thus, people will think that should empathy the child but they forgotten every single problem also have the solution and choices. Even I was empathy the child but this is about ethics. He has the choice to choose do or not to do.

Meanwhile, this situation could be consider as dilemma ethics as people leaving an equally “right” choice undone. It meant like people contradicting a personal ethical principle in making the choice. In this case, why people will get into dilemma ethics is because students are not able to come out with an accurate decision and because of personal emotion. As the child is not willing to steal the bread but he has been starved few days so that he did this action. People will empathy his situation so that can’t bear to see the child starve for few days and his parents were getting sick at home could not take care of him. People will struggle whether to trust the child or not to trust. Normally people will empathy about his situation but actually this action is not ethical when comes to logical. Since different cases might make people get into dilemma ethics so that they have to know how to resolve when get into ethical dilemma. Therefore, I think that to resolve ethical dilemma situation have to be rational then only able to identify the situation and come out with the right behavior. There also have three steps to resolve an ethical dilemma. Step one is analyze the consequences which mean people have to think about the consequences what will actually affect to others. When come to this case, if send the child to the police station the consequences might be getting punishment according to the law. However, people will think that he just a child and he still young, we should give him a chance to repent and educate him about steal is an unethical action. Thus, I think that before doing decision has to know which consequences will affect more so that can make a right decision. Step two is analyze the actions. When come to take action, we have to analyze is this action suitable for the cases. If not, what supposed to do when encounter this kind of situation? Last step is make a decision. After analyze the consequences and action, we have to know which solution will be suitable then make a decision for the case. As every single problem sure have the solution to resolve it.

Thus, I realize that ethics is very important in our real life. Ethics make people understanding what they are doing and understanding right or wrong behavior. Ethics is a requirement for human life. It means people of deciding a course of action. Assume that our life without ethics, it will become random and aimless. People will do whatever they like and they will think everything is correct once without ethics. Thus, we have to set an ethical standard to ensure that our life can be more rational when encounter problem. Even some of the people still will do unethical action but they will get punishment based on the law. This is why we need to know about ethics and set the legal rules to ensure people will not do the wrong things. Therefore, ethics is very important in a country as ethics can lead people make a right decision and practice a good behavior.

In conclusion, I found out that ethics is not only about honest and not cheating people. Before that, in my mindset I think that ethics is become honest to everyone and not breaking the rules. However, I realize that ethics is not only about doing right and wrong behavior. It also will get into ethical dilemma so that we have to very clear about our standard and make a right decision. I also learn about how to resolve ethical dilemma situation and identify the right behavior to different kind of cases. I hope that the following class can learn more about types of ethics so that able to know ethics can be dividing into how many types.

Let’s fight with ethics !!