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Ethics needs to be taught. People have to encounter ethical challenges and consider how to respond to them before being put in the position of having to make a
by meepmorp 6y ago
Ethics needs to be taught.
People have to encounter ethical challenges and consider how to respond to them before being put in the position of having to make a real ethical choice. Ethics isn't just about a gut check on "right vs wrong," and having a rational framework to apply to situations helps people reason about the choices they make.
And, let's make it mandatory, not elective.
- rationalethic 6y agoWhat makes you think ethics are rational? I see no evidence for that. Who decides what the correct moral framework is? Christian ethics are different from Critical Theory or Scientology informed ethics. Should you be required to take a course in Scientological ethics, if there is a political majority that votes that you shouldn't be able to be professional without completing that course? Boy I'm glad I didn't finish college. What a bunch of crap.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoWhy is this being downvoted? A younger colleague participated in such a course (because he was on an NIH-funded project), and it was case study after case study, together with "how would you have acted in such a situation, and why". He reported that he found it extremely useful.
- meepmorp 6y agoPeople hear ethics and think moralizing; who wants to sit through that?