Question

© Ethical Dilemma What is a recent ethical dilemma that you encountered in your practice? Why was it a dilemma and how was it handled? Submission Instructions: • Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points. You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.) All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible. Please post your initial response by 23:59 Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates by 23:59 Sunday. You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date.

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ethical dilemma that we encounter in our practice

- An ethical dilemma or ethical paradox is a decision making problem between two possible moral imperative, neither of which is unambigously acceptable oi preferable.. - The complexity arrives out of ritutional conflict in which obeying one would result in transgeoving other Some time called ethical paradox in moral philasphy, ethical dilemmas may be invoked to refute an ethical segltem. or moral code or to improve it so as to resolve pardox - enample @ A dinnaway tocelley is heading down the touch toward 5 workmen who will be killed If the trolley proceed on its present course, you are on a footbridge over the track that is in between the appecoaching forolley and five workomen. Hext to you on this foot bridge is a stranger who happens to o be ovey large. If you do nothing the trolley will proceed a coutsing death of five workmen. The only way to save the lives of these workmen is to push this stranged off the bridge and onto terack below a where his large body will stop trolley, Cousine his death 6 Aboution debate Coraded absolutism sucide Samaritain's dilemma

a Ethical dillema can be handled in various way @ by showing that the claimed situation is only apparent and does not realy exist 6 The solution to ethical dilemma invalue choosing the greater good and lesser evil Cas discussed in value theory. © The whole framing of problem omits creative alternative (such as peacemaking) Situational ethics or situated ethics must apply because the case cannot be removed from context and still be understand 6 Case-basing reasoning on this procees An alternative to situational ethics is graded absolutism According to some philosphers and socialist eg. karl Marx and Marxist ethics, It is the different life experience of people and the different exposure to them and their family in these rules (the rich. Constantantly rabbing poor, the four in a position of constantly begging and subordinate) that create social class differenes, y In other word, ethical dilemmas con become political and economical faction that engage in long term recuering struggle