Ethical Perspective

Ethics are peoples moral obligation to treat people fairly, and want to better society. This means to actually care and understand about what is right and wrong. It is to compare and decide among alternatives when faced with a ethical situation. And it is about acquiring the skills to be able to justify your own decisions on ethical grounds. There are four ethical perspective types. They include character/virtue, obligation/deontology, results/utilitarianism, and equality/relativism. And sometimes your ethics can cause you conflict between yourself or others.

    Character/virtue type is about people believing that ethics rely on the ability of people to make sound moral judgments. They believe that individuals have the type of character to make difficult choices correctly. The obligation/deontology ethical perspective type is described as someone who believes that people should be able to make their own decisions. They believe that ethics are based on an individual level and moral decisions must reflect the free choice of any individual. Equity/relativism ethical perspective type believes that there are no standards of right and wrong. This style believes that those standards could change with different information or circumstances and that nothing can be classified as the correct standard for ethics.

    By completing the Ethics Awareness Inventory I found out I was the last ethical perspective type which is called: results/utilitarianism. With this style, we believe that we each have a moral right to experience the “good life.” According to this belief, a good life would be the satisfaction of the people who make up our society. If we are not satisfying the people around us, then we do not feel we are being ethical or hav ...
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