Activity 1: Recognizing Ethical Problems

Name five events in past months, weeks, or days that can be qualified as ethical
problems. Give your reasons. You can use stories or events published in newspapers or aired
on televisions.

Please give proper acknowledgment of the source. You don’t need to get the whole story. This
activity is meant to assess whether you can recognize ethical problems. It will be graded and
categorized as a performance outcome.

 Birthday big salu-salo for NCRPO chief Debold Sinas amid ECQ on May 8, 2020
(Rappler.com, May 12, 2020) – despite of the restriction to the social gathering, one of the
highest official of the one who enforce the law violates it, this is purely unethical.
 The pardon given by President Rodrigo Duterte to the mañanita celebrant Debold Sinasbut rather
promoting Debold Sinas; this shows that the president is tolerating the act faceto-face to the society
showing that law doesn’t enforce big name personalities.
 The bubble-like resignation of Ricardo Morales due missing funds of PhilHealth which is about Php 147
billion. The former Chief Morales resigned without any such acceptable cause, and not dealing the cases
filled against him.
 Duterte Jokes About Rape, Again. Philippine Women Aren’t Laughing (Nytimes.com, August 31, 2018).
President Duterte must promote human right especially to women but in the other hand the President
romanticizing the act, making it fun with the wicked turn, being a president it is unethical.
 “Pagmumura ni Duterte kay Obma, OKS lang kay Obama. (Newsnow.ph, September 10, 2016)-
disrespecting one of the most prominent President of United States, considering it’s a joke as a escape,
crediting as mental gymnast; this is unethical wherein disrespecting one’s leader

Quiz 1: Keywords to remember and contrast.

1. Define ethics
 Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and
recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". The field of ethics, along with aesthetics,
concerns matters of value; these fields comprise the branch of philosophy called axiology

2. What is the difference between ethics and morals?

 while their closely related concept morals refer mainly to guiding principles,and ethics refer to
specific rules and actionsor behaviors. A moral precept is an idea or opinion that's driven by a
desire to be good. An ethical code is a set of rules that defines allowable actions or correct
behavior
3.Differentiate ethics from aesthetics, etiquette, and technique.
 ETHICS moral principle that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity
 AESTHETICS a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especiall
in art.
 ETIQUETTE the customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular
profession or group .