I
will probably title my blogs with clever (annoying?) word puns, unless I either
run out of word puns or get tired of it myself. Why, you may ask? Because this
is my way of showing creativity! Pod-on (Pardon) me for amusing myself, but I
hope that this will entertain you too!
So
the main topic of the week was making ethical decisions. I sort of
felt that using the iPod case was too overused. Although, it was
effective in getting to the point, I felt that I was already familiar with
this as I had already picked up these lessons from ENVISOC the previous term. Utilitarian
and Kantian Ethics was already taught to me and I knew how to make an “ethical”
decision by applying these theories. What was surprising to me was
that being “completely utilitarian” was actually a bad thing. With
the example of a purely utilitarian doctor, my eyes were opened in the sense
that you could make unethical decisions even if you were purely
utilitarian. I felt that I could have been completely utilitarian in
running a company in the future and reinforce the tough decisions with the
rationale of being a utilitarian decision maker. I guess this is why
Kantian ethics are also necessary in the decision-making process due to it
respecting human dignity.
I
thought that ethics in decision making was just choosing what you felt was
right; and that if more people are needed to make a decision, then we should
just vote for the decision. However, the lesson showed us a decision
making model so that you can weigh each course of action to take and have
actual numbers to back up the decision. Although the numbers produced are
objective, it would still give you an idea that there was a logical way of
reaching the decision.
In the end, the lessons taught this week
helped me to realize that each decision we make can have a different impact on
many different people. If these decisions were made in a company scale,
then the implications would be much bigger.
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