FIELDAD, Jorelly Myles F.

BSN II-A
1. President Duterte has been called by so many names both positive and negative.
From your own point of view, what kind of person is he considering the different
layers of identities he possess.
 Pres. Duterte is known not only for his skills in leadership but also his strong
character which we knew him more than what he does. He’s under the enactment
layer wherein our identities emerge from what we say and do and how we act in
certain situations therefore depending on how Pres. Duterte shows his own
character is how he can show the people his superiority as well as his role as the
President of our country.

2. Is being ethical and moral the same? Amoral and Immoral? Give examples.
 Ethics are rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human
actions or a particular group or culture while moral are principles or habits with
respect to right or wrong conduct. So ethics therefore is what the society provides
us with and moral is based internally on our own principles.
 Example for ethics would be in our society those who commit crimes according to
the law differs from how heavy the crime is committed with fines depending on
what will be the judge’s call.
 Example for morality is when you are bullied and for you to pay back is to do the
same but you know yourself that it is wrong to you even if it will help feel the
revenge you always wanted but you rather shut yourself up because in your mind
it was already wrong in the first place.
 Amoral mean lacking a moral compass. Amoral behavior has no real intention to
harm others, but no effort to avoid it, either. Immoral means actively violating
standards of morality. Immoral behavior has an intention to harm other, justified
or not.
 An example of amoral would be a person who is drunk driving and has
accidentally met an accident with another car. It is amoral because he wasn’t
meant to encounter such accident thought him being drunk, accidents would be
unavoidable.
 An example of immoral behavior would be when an obsessed fan of Christina
Grimmie, a famous singer during her time was fatally shot in a murder-suicide
situation. The fan intentionally wanted to kill Christina making it immoral in
nature.

3. What lessons in ethics can you deduce from the Covid-19 crisis that we are
experiencing now? What ethical dilemma/s is being observed? What's the "new or
emerging ethics" that you observe because of the pandemic?
 With the current situation of our nation towards this pandemic of the Covid-19
crisis, the government now acts like the utilitarianism theory where they focused
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BSN II-A
more on the greatest number with the greatest outcome for the betterment of
everyone.
 An ethical dilemma being observed now is the execution of the GCQ. The ECQ
in some parts of our country has been lifted into GCQ because of signs that the
said locality has been identified as low risk due to no number of cases as well as
PUMs and PUIs. It is though a 50/50 chance decision because in our current
situation, there still isn’t a known cure and the decision of GCQ is likely
experimental in nature.
 The concept of Teleology, where we must act according to our purpose in life, in
this pandemic, we started to know the role that we have, the nurses and doctors
who sworn in their names to provide the best health care they can, the police with
their oath to protect civilians with accordance to the law, the elected officials
looking over their community men, and us, our purpose to protect ourselves to
stop this spread, we act to what we are to do because of what we are now.

4. Is the law always a reliable standard for determining moral behavior? Can we say
that what is legal always moral? And what is not prohibited by law, always moral?
Justify your answer.
 Yes. Moral behavior are acts intended to produce kind and/or fair outcomes we
need guidelines such as the law to produce a decision that is based on facts and
has a fair judgment status knowing that the law has a supreme power and it is
reliable therefore using it as a standard for determining moral behavior is right.
 No. Morality comes within a person’s character and not all acts depends on the
law but rather we people also have what we call conscience within us that will
balance which is right or wrong and that we have different perspective of what we
think is good to us that might either be legal or not.
 Yes. Because it was within your own decision on with your own perspective.

5. Do you believe in "situational ethics?" Have you ever experience it? What are your
observations regarding this norm of morality?
 Yes. I have experienced it in the case like in our culture talking back to your
parents is always wrong even if you know you have the right argument to talk
them back about it but because of our culture, children are always wrong on it.
 From what was taught to us when we were little that this words or scenarios have
already been passed down from generation to generation, it has become true in
nature and a practical base for right or wrong because in the past it was used and
has been proven to be more on good results that is why even without its existence
in the law, it is used as a practical basis for right or wrong.