Ethical Dilemas

Ethics and Morality

Ethics Dilemmas

The ethical considerations here are whether someone's right secure property are more valuable than the risk of your own life. Because the dilemma states that you fear you will freeze to death, I do not see that the cost of your own life would be less valuable than another's claim to secure property.

To some it may seem deceitful to the police officers to observe them under these conditions. Yet, it was the police chief's call to tell them the real reason for the observation, or not. The fact that they are acting violently is their choice and you have done nothing wrong in observing it.

The farmer is obligated to pay for income he receives and is not entitled to the medical deduction according to law. His action is clearly illegal, so it undermines all other laws to ignore it. However, it does not hurt anyone directly so I would be more likely to do it than other scenarios.

Ethically, it seems cruel to the actual test subjects to participate in this project. They may be morally incriminating themselves and may feel bad later when they realize what they would have done in a real situation.

5. The ethical dilemma is whether you can kill your son under duress and the threat of indirectly killing another person. Though it is horrible, your son likely understands the situation to know that you must kill him to save another's life. However, whether or not he understands I would choose to save another life because I feel like I should save as many people as I can in a bad situation.

6. Depending on the law, many psychiatrists have a duty to warn if they think that someone is in actual danger, regardless of confidentiality. If I really thought the threat was idle I would not act and would protect confidentiality. However, if I thought there was a good chance that he would follow through I would be both legally and morally obligated to warn someone.

7. The dilemma is whether or not it is okay to kill someone out of mercy to end their suffering. While I would have no problem with an individual choosing to take their own life, I do not feel that it is ethical to kill someone, sick or not.

8. It is not ethical or legal to torture or threaten a man with the torture of his family for any reason, whether or not you intend to follow through, and whether or not lives are at stake. Setting this precedent opens the door for abuse of power and the depletion of all civil rights.

9. The ethical issue here is whether or not you should save someone's life even though it is an inconvenience. I would not act as Roger Smith has acted in this scenario, as it is just wrong to ignore the immediate suffering of someone who will die when you can save them without any actual risk to yourself; the inconvenience of ruining his clothes and possible catching cold should not weigh into it when compared to the value of a human life.