Question

According to Crocker & Major (1989), one possible consequence of treating a stigmatizing condition is to improved social interactions of the stigmatized individual. How would you evaluate the ethical (moral) implications or consequences of this treatment?

Answer 1

There have been a number of stigma that have been attributed to different individuals. Social stigma would be referred to as the disapproval of or discriminating against a partiuckr individual on the basis of spcertain social or perceived characteristics that would be serving such that there would be a distinction between the different members of the society. Social stigmas may occur through race, gender or culture or even on the basis of the health of an individual.

This distinction has proliferated because there has been a segregation of classes or of races, with the least amount of intermingling and interactions . with decreased interactions, there have been a further increase in stigmatisation. Only when people interact with these “stigmatised” individuals, they would come to know if those perceived beliefs are true or if they actually apply to those people. Ethical and moral beliefs that would be compliant with the consequence of this treatment are:

• Right to equality: every person should be having equal rights to be participating in every activity that a “privileged” or non privileged person has. Also, they should have equal rights to interact with anyone they would want without any boundaries.
• Right to freedom of expression: just because a person is of a perceived lower race or gender, they wouldn’t be allowed to say or do things that they would want to. And this right to freedom would be exercised by this interaction.
• Justice