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Explanation about Moral Dilemma Assignment in Ethics- GED 107
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Cuadra, Clariza Jane O.
BS Psychology 2101
ACTIVITY 2- ETHICS
1. Based on your own views, what is moral dilemma?
Before anything else let me share what is moral dilemma means based on a
book written by Deborah Holt. She said, “A moral (ethical) dilemma is a situation that
involves a choice, decision, act/action, solution that may include an unpleasant
problem or situation where you feel you simply do not know what to do or which way
to turn.’’
On my own views, Moral Dilemma is a situation wherein we are afraid to
make any decision or action that will give us an unpredictable result. Admit it or not,
most of the time we want to make choice whereas the results will be transparent with
our eyes, or it’s something we want to have. And in this situation enters the
2. Differentiate the three levels of moral dilemma and cite an example to each level.
There are three (3) levels of dilemma, according to Mañebog, Jensen (2021).
These are the Personal Dilemmas, Organizational Dilemmas and Structural
Dilemmas.
Personal Dilemma
Simply put, these personal dilemmas are those experienced and resolved on
the personal level. Since many ethical decisions are personally made, many, if not
most of, moral dilemmas fall under, or boil down to, this level. French philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre gave an example or a case that could exemplify a personal moral
dilemma.“Sartre tells of a student whose brother had been killed in the German
offensive of 1940. The student wanted to avenge his brother and to fight forces that he
regarded as evil. But the student’s mother was living with him, and he was her one
consolation in life.’ “The student believed that he had conflicting obligations. Sartre
describes him as being torn between two kinds of morality: one of limited scope but
certain efficacy, personal devotion to his mother; the other of much wider scope but
uncertain efficacy, attempting to contribute to the defeat of an unjust aggressor.”
(Holt, n.d.)
We can give many other examples of personal moral dilemmas. If someone
makes conflicting promises, he faces a moral conflict. When an individual has to
choose between the life of a child who is about to be delivered and the child’s mother,
he faces an ethical dilemma.
Organizational Dilemmas
Basically, ethical cases encountered and resolved by social organizations are
organizational moral dilemmas. This category includes moral dilemmas in business,
medical field, and public sector.For example, a hospital that believes that human life
should not be deliberately shortened and that unpreventable pain should not be
tolerated encounters a conflict in resolving whether to withdraw life support from a
dying patient. This is a common moral dilemma faced by healthcare organizations and
medical institutions.
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