Could you give some examples of ethical issues on morality?

Answer 1

Some examples of moral issues: * If you see your best friend's husband 'with' another woman - do you tell your friend or stay out of it? * You know that your friend, cousin, brother, etc has commited a crime - do you report them to authorities or not? * You are an unwed, young girl who just found out you are pregnant. You never believed in abortion, but now that you are faced with this, knowing how life will be for an unwed teen mother, do you have the baby and keep it, do you have it and give it up for adoption, or do you have an abortion? * You are a struggling, single parent, with no money, and no one to help you financially. Your baby is out of diapers/formula and you have absolutely no money with which to buy any until payday. Do you steal them or ask strangers on the street for money?

Answer 2

A moral dilemma is a situation where a solution may be morally wrong, but it is the preferable one. The essence of a moral dilemma is choosing between two or more competing values or beliefs.

Example (personal vs. impersonal benefit)

I once found a large sum of money at a railway station. Some people might have been tempted to keep it. Perhaps if you had a low income and lots of bills to pay, this might be quite a temptation. I thought it would be a challenge to find the owner (his plane ticket was among the papers) and imagined the joy he might feel -- the pleasant surprise at having his money and papers returned. I managed to get his money back to him, and as a reward he made a donation to my favourite charity.

Example (necessity vs. legality)

In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. the drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $400 for the radium and charged $4,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money and tried every legal means, but he could only get together about $2,000, which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying, and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said, "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from if." So, having tried every legal means, Heinz gets desperate and considers breaking into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.

Example (shifting the burden)

Consider the choice between having to kill one innocent or two will die later. You face either the burden of having killed an innocent person (even if you saved two others) or the burden that two innocent people died because you did not kill one. This dillemma gets worse when chance is factored in (i.e. kill one for a 75% chance of saving two or a 75% chance that you will kill one while saving two).

Vivisection, the bioindustry and emergency triage are areas where this example applies.

Answer 3

What, if anything, should be done when in vitro fertilization results in a woman carrying six or seven live fetuses? Exactly how old is too old to become pregnant ? Fifty, 60, 65? Are the results of genetic testing really confidential? And who should get one of the precious few donor organs: the youngest patient or the sickest?

Answer 4

Racism, sexism, lying, stealing, cheating, prostitution and dealing drugs are examples of moral issues.

Answer 5

Moral issues can effect the workplace. Discrimination, side deals, gross negligence, and stealing from a partner are some moral dilemmas that people may face in a business setting.

Answer 6

Not lying is good moral. Stealing is bad moral.