tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204358997085828680.post8116321689995104635..comments2023-10-31T02:08:57.631-07:00Comments on 2010 ILC at Brown: “Every End is a New Beginning"Madeline Kronenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809038721402994691noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204358997085828680.post-16500512279338111172010-07-24T03:57:20.098-07:002010-07-24T03:57:20.098-07:00Lupe,
The whole question of ethics is an interest...Lupe,<br /><br />The whole question of ethics is an interesting discipline.<br /><br />Many issues are cut and dried and there’s no question about what needs to be done. Others—such as the one you mentioned—are a bit more difficult. We sometimes have to ask ourselves what it is that we need to accomplish. Are we surrogate police officers or morality police set on this Earth to keep people in? In a case like this don’t we need to keep things in perspective? In a situation like this is the goal to keep people form smoking on campus or is it to punish those that do? If you believe it’s the latter then you have an obligation to rat on your friend and issue some tough love. You can always visit her at the juvenile detention center on weekends.<br /><br />Or, you can talk with her to help her understand what she needs to do. <br /><br />Where the ethics issue comes into play, though, is whether you feel obligated to enable your friend and become a coconspirator in her continuing efforts to ignore the rules.<br /><br />When you take the path of the first set of options, you can easily fall into the trap of becoming what we see in totalitarian societies such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union where even family members are convinced they need to turn in their loved ones “for the betterment of the people”.<br /><br />It doesn’t matter whether a person is a male or a female, big or small, when they walk with an air of confidence the evildoers of this world can see this and will, most likely, avoid them and prey on someone they feel they can lord over and subjugate.<br /><br />Towards that end, so much of what you’ve been taught and what you’ve learned these past couple of weeks will allow you to walk with the swagger of a confident person. The meek may inherit the Earth but only after the strong and mighty have left town.Don Gosneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com