BLOG 14 (INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS)
For this blog, we were asked to become a member of the NEWU.org website and to take the online “INTRO TO ETHICS” class that is hosted free from the site.
After taking the course I can confidently say there are definitely some things in regards to ethics that I had never considered.
The main section of the course that really interested me was the “ETHICS IN PRACTICE” section. To me there is really no better way to learn about ethics than reading about REAL WORLD applications or good and bad ethics (although this course discussed mostly BAD ethics). Inside this category there were two topics that really interested me because they are two things that I had never really put much thought into. The first was “conflict of interest” and the second was “deception”.
Conflict of interest, although something I have never put a lot of thought into, definitely can happen in real life. The example they gave that I liked the most was of a news reporter who had been appointed to a council at the white house. So, when that happened the dilemma was that where does the loyalties really lie in this situation?
Deception, although possibly less common the conflict of interest, does happen. One of the examples I really liked that that they use is reports after 11SEP2001 trying to “TEST THE SYSTEM” to see what flaws our system might have. Well, that definitely using deception and can be very dangerous.
Here is a link to the article
“Beware the Dangers of ‘Testing the System’”
I also found a pretty neat INTRO TO ETHICS video on youtube for anyone who like me and retains more info by watching a video:
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