Question

Duty-Oriented Reasoning: A Matter of Principle Juan and Joe are good friends. They both graduated from the same program and have gone to work in the same radiography department. Part of their duties is to be sure that the standby equipment is ready for service on the wards. Juan and Joe are working the night shift, and while playing around, Juan inadvertently bumps the equipment, tips it over, and breaks the standby instrument In that it was an accident, Juan asks you, as a friend, not to tell anyone it was his fault. "Acci- dents do happen The two of you switch out the equipment,sending the broken plece down to In the morning your boss comes in and notices that the equipment has been sent down maintenance, and put a working instrument on standby. to maintenance. He asks what happened, and Juan says, "I dunno. Someone from out of the

Answer 1

Here in the present scenario, we can see Juan and Joe both are good friends and working in the same radiology department for a night shift. One of their responsibility is to make the equipment in a stand by mode for the ready for service for the ward.

But accidentally from the Juan the equipment has been bumped and tips it over and breaks the stand by instrument

2. What principles are involved in this case?

Like any professional, we have to be much sincere and dedicated to our profession, superiors and organization. We have to be very truthful to all of the professionals and consumers.

Here what happened Juan and Joe are good friends and each of them are very understandable with each other.

When the Boss asks regarding the reason for the maintenance of equipment Juan says that someone out from the department results in the bumping of the equipment, he is sincere to his profession, then also he lies to the boss. As a principle, we don't lie to our superiors we have to sincere to our job. We have to be truthful to our superiors. other than friendship.

3. Maybe the principle of sincerity to the profession results in conflict with each other

4. Surely some principle has a higher value than others. Because here the "Principle of sincerity" is having a higher value than "Principle of confidentiality"