Question

Requirements: Your response should contain the following three parts, and should be developed with clear and concise paragraphs. Include a reference page for the source of the ethical issue if it is not what you have experienced.

Word Limit: 300-500

1. Identify an ethical issue you have witnessed or read about or heard about in the news.

2. Describe the issue: what is the issue? How is it an ethical issue? In describing the issue, identify the source: state where you saw, heard, or experienced the issue; state who or what is/are involved.

3. Offer a resolution to the issue using a specific ethical theory.

Answer 1

I have experienced an ethical issue within an educational varsity, wherein there is standard scoring set and norm which a professor is expected to adhere to while correcting papers.

Professors are ethically bound by the rules of the university, to be fair and just in all their dealings with the respective students irrespective of any differences.

But, I experienced that one of the professors, engaged in mood based marking, which was actually symptomatic of a bias towards certain students.

2. The issue was of marking incorrectly, the ethical issue was that it was done so based on personal preferences as opposed to grades truly deserved. The professors and his respective module class was involved in the afore mentioned predicament.

3. The ethical theory which would help resolve the above conflict would be the deontological ethical theory, as it is involved with taking into one's obligations and duties as well as role while making a decision.