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Guidelines: Use the following Ethical Principles (Virtue Ethics, Natural Law, Utilitarianism and Options Validating the Options
Deontology) in assessing and finding the right action for each dilemmas. Check the Ethical Note: Encircle the letter of the correct Kindly check the ethical views to support
Principles that you use as basis for the right action in the table provided for each dilemma to answer. your answer
support the validity of your answer.
Submit your answers on or before 2:00 pm in the afternoon today (December 14, 2019) at
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1. Your supervisor enters your office and asks you for a check for $150.00 for expenses he A. Report him to a higher authority.
tells you he incurred entertaining a client last night. He submits receipts from a restaurant B. Forget about it and just do what he Virtue DUTY Utilitarianism Law of
and lounge. At lunch your supervisor’s girlfriend stops by to pick him up for lunch and you tells you to do. Ethics Nature
overhear her telling the receptionist what a great time she had at dinner and dancing C. Tell him you know his secret and use
with your supervisor the night before. What do you do? it on your own advantage.
EXPLANATION:

2. You have worked as a bank teller for several months when one of the other tellers who A. Report him to a higher authority.
has become a good friend tells you that her daughter is extremely ill and that seek must B. Forget about it and just do what he
have an operation to survive. She also tells you that she has no insurance and the tells you to do. Virtue DUTY Utilitarianism Law of
operation will cost $10,000. Sometime later you ask her about her daughter and she tells C. Tell her you know her secret and use Ethics Nature
you she is just fine now. She then confides in you that she took $10,000.00 from a it on your own advantage.
dormant account at the bank to pay for the operation. She assures you that she has
already started paying it back and will continue to do so until it is all returned. What do
you do?
EXPLANATION:
 3. In your spare time at work, you have developed a new spreadsheet program on the a. Take full credit on it.
personal computer in your office. It is even more powerful, yet easier to sue than b. Inform the company about your Virtue DUTY Utilitarianism Law of
anything on the market. You share your new program with a friend who encourages you discovery. Ethics Nature
to market it on your own because you could probably make an incredible profit in a very c. Keep it a secret
short time. This is a very attractive option, yet you developed it using company d. Sell it to the company itself.
equipment and during time that you were at work. What do you do?

EXPLANATION:

4. Your newspaper has published a report on a national study, which concluded that bottled a. Inform the people about your
water has virtually no health advantages over the tap water in more cities, including discovery. Virtue DUTY Utilitarianism Law of
yours. The study included comments from local health storeowners and water b. Keep it a secret since your earning Ethics Nature
distributors challenging the study. The Aqua Pure Bottled Water Company, advertising from it.
account worth over P750,000.00 a year, has threatened to pull its account with your c. As for an extra payment from Aqua
newspaper unless you run another story of equal prominence, focusing on the benefits Pure for not telling their secret.
of bottled water. What do you do?

EXPLANATION:

5. You are a rookie officer assigned to a training officer for the first six months of your A. Report him to a higher authority.
employment. The training officer is a 20-year veteran and is a close friend of thee B. Forget about it and just do what he Virtue DUTY Utilitarianism Law of
Assistant Chief of Police and the brother-in-law of the Watch Commander. The third day tells you to do. Ethics Nature
that you are working with him you respond to a burglary call at a local convenience store. C. Tell him you know his secret and use
It is 2:30 am and the manager has been notified. You are directed to wait 30-35 minutes it on your own advantage.
for his arrival. A short time later you observe your partner take a soda, candy and a bag
of chips. He consumes the soda and chips. When the manager arrives, the two of you
depart. What should you do?
EXPLANATION:
 6. Your company has a firm policy regarding cases of theft of company property. Used A. Report him to a higher authority.
company equipment is on a table to be sold by bid each month. You see a valued B. Forget about it and just do what he Virtue DUTY Utilitarianism Law of
employee who is 2 months from retirement slip an electric drill from the table and put it tells you to do. Ethics Nature
in his car before the day of the sale. What so you do? C. Tell him you know his secret and use
EXPLANATION: it on your own advantage.

7. A lady from out of town calls you to list her deceased parent’s home in Liberty. She is not a. Tell the lady of its real value.
sure what it is worth, but says she will be happy to get P5,000,000.00 for the home. You b. Tell her that the property is only Virtue DUTY Utilitarianism Law of
look at the home and feel it is worth at least P7,500,000, and realize it would be perfect P5M and sell it to your brother Ethics Nature
for your brother. What do you do?
EXPLANATION:

As Aristotle had emphasized, THAT the roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly
because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Advance Merry Xmas, Good LUCK!