A test for Ethics: Today in
the class a surprise quiz was called for and everyone was nervous and I am ready to write whatever I know. But suddenly maam went outside and I was
trying to peep into my neighbour’s answer sheet to find some better answers. Its
just another act of our female kamalhasaan(viji Maam) to make us feel nervous. Once
maam came back she asked us how many got ready to copy by seeing her going out
of the class. Many hands were raised and mine is one among them.
Then Maam explained about
bounded ethicality and explained how people behaves unethical without knowing
whether they do right or wrong? She also explained how we should be aware and
cautious of what we do. Bounded rationality speaks about the cognitive
limitation of peoples mind when dealing with constraints in line with ethics It’s
tough to be ethical every time in life for humans. We think and believe that if
our action doesn’t hurt others then we are doing an ethical act. But many time
it affects someone at some microscopic level without our knowledge.
For ex: while evaluating papers
of students many times this would have happened in a teachers life. if a student fell short of one or two marks to
get pass in a exam the teacher tries to add up that one mark by giving some
extra marks for answers which he doesn’t deserve to get that one mark just for
the sake to make him pass. Did the teacher lost his ethics and moral value in
his/her life at this point? Just a simple thought strike my mind. May be the
answer is certainly yes. But still they do that. That internal conflict
everyone faces against their moral values is really tough to fight. In the above example its more about the life of some person looks so valuable for the teacher than his/her own moral values. So ethical
decision making is something like we has to first fight with us against our
feelings to achieve for the higher moral values. Its really very tough. But at the max one should be ethical in life.
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