Class Readings
Incompetent
Rigid
Intemperate
Callous
Corrupt
Insular
Evil
Parents “reframed” the decision
“I shouldn’t be late and unfairly burden the staff”
“I can pay $X and buy the staff’s time to watch my child longer”
__________ _______ occurs when the ethical aspects of a decision disappear from view.
Ethical fading
Our beliefs can be enforced through this phenomenon...
Hint: Think about the social media news story
Cleaning a toilet with the flag
“According to Jonathan Haidt at the University of Virginia [now at NYU], our moral judgments are usually rapid and intuitive; people jump to conclusions and only later come up with reasons to justify their decision. To see this in action, try confronting someone with a situation that is offensive but harmless, such as using their national flag to clean a toilet. Most will insist this is wrong but fail to come up with a rationale, and fall back on statements like ‘I can't explain it, I just know it's wrong’.”
The belief that there is a consistent, objective standard that should never be broken in any circumstance is known as ____________.
Half of you got:
“If someone sues me and I win the case, they should pay my legal expenses”
The other half of you got:
“If I sue someone and I lose the case, I should pay their legal expenses”
Our answers might reflect the _____ - _____ _____.
"As a simple example, a U.S. News & World Report survey asked some people: ‘If someone sues you and you win the case, should he pay your legal expenses?’ 85% percent of the respondents thought this would be fair. The magazine asked others: ‘If you sue someone and lose the case, should you pay his costs?’ Now, only 44% of respondents agreed, illustrating how our sense of fairness is easily influenced by self-interest.
If we are not careful, we will not even notice how the self-serving bias influences our ethical decisions. Authors Bronson and Merryman report that ‘[i]f you’re a Red Sox fan, watching a Sox game, you’re using a different region of the brain to judge if a runner is safe than you would if you were watching a game between two teams you didn’t care about.’”
Retrieved on December 21, 2014 from: http://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/video/best-self-part-2-moral-decision-making
The belief that everything is up to each culture and there are no objective truths is known as _______.
Which of the Big 3 from Moral Philosophy focuses on the following: What kind of person should I be? How can I be compassionate, fair/just, honest, respectful, responsible etc.?
“… self-interested goals are generated automatically, they occur before the effortful and slower process of deliberation gets under way. This starts a cascade reaction, in which the decision that is ultimately reached will often be based on self-interest…”
This quote addresses the concept of the _____-_____ _______"Few people, facing an ethical dilemma, say to themselves, ‘Here, on one hand, is the great, the good, the wonderful, and the pure and, on the other hand, the awful, the evil, the miserable, and the terrible—and here I stand equally torn between them.’”
Rushworth Kidder is talking about which type of decisions here?
Which of the Big 3 from Moral Philosophy focuses on the following: What will bring the best results (e.g. create the most happiness) and least harm for all who might be affected?