Question

Explain one moral dilemma that would affect your ethical decision-making during a disaster. Provide a detailed explanation of what the moral dilemma is and how you plan to control for personal bias. Identify a real life situation you can reference on this topic.

Answer 1

Ethics are the principles on the basis of which an individual works . Ethics guides an individual to differentiate between right and wrong .

Disaster is an emergency situation in which sudden accident or natural calamity cause huge loss of life and property.

I experienced a morale dilemma in making an ethical decisions during disaster management . In disaster management triage is the main part of the management system .Triage is categorising patients according to their severity . People who are sick and their chances of survival are less are managed at last so that the people in whom the chances survival is more are managed first .

This was the point where I was having the dilemma in relation to ethical principles . According to ethics ,we have to treat every patient without any discrimination, but I have to work more practically in emergency situations by saving the individuals who have more chances of survival rather than utilising time to save an individual whose survival chances are less .