Name: BLESSED MAE M.

JACINTO Year and Section: BSED1

Activity No. 4 (Midterm)

Immanuel Kant and Right Theory

Situation Analysis

Direction: Visualize you’re in a situation like what was mentioned below, how will you handle or manage
it?

You are the network administrator for a rather large company. You have a young family and
need your job to support them. As part of your responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor
the emails for the organization. Usually this just means occasionally allow through emails for staff
members that have been accidentally blocked by the spam filters.

One day you get a helpdesk request from a staff member asking for an email to get released.
Normally it is standard procedure except this time the request has come from the wife of a very good
friend of yours. You recognize the name on the helpdesk request so quickly attend to the problem. As
part of the procedure you need to manually open up the email to ensure that it isn’t spam, so you do
and you discover that it certainly isn’t spam. You find that it’s actually an email to your friend’s wife
from her lover. You scan the rest of the contents of the email and there is no doubt that she has been
having an affair for some time now.

You release the email, but you can’t decide what to do. Your initial reaction is to call your friend
up and tell him about the email; however you quickly realize that company policy is very strict about
revealing the contents of confidential emails of staff members regardless of the contents and unless
someone’s life is in immediate danger, under no circumstances are you permitted to reveal the
information.

In any case you know that revealing this information presents great risk, because even if you
don’t do it directly, there is a good chance that the dots will be joined somewhere along the line and you
will be found out. However, you feel that by not telling your friend that you are aiding his wife get away
with adultery and this troubles you greatly. What would you do?

I am not perfect that I did a lot of mistakes in my life but I try to make decisions or do things to the best
of my abilities and knowledge, and I choose based on the situation. This moral dilemma is compromising
that the options in that situation; I tell my friend what’s going on regarding the email and the affair but
revealing the contents of staff emails, will cause to lose my job, I don’t tell my friend about the situation
but I’m helping his wife to get away with adultery. If I am the network administrator, I would keep the
information I had that I don’t tell my friend about the situation though I’m helping his wife to get away
with adultery. I can’t lose my job because I have to support my family which I put in a lot of effort to get
where I am now. I understand that our friendship can be ruined, but he will understand if he is in my
situation. I know that adultery is wrong and is not the way God would want the wife to live her life.
Adultery is wrong because it violates one of the most important promises a person can make that is
written in Divine Law. My friend will also know what her wife is doing because there is no such thing as a
secret that can’t be revealed. I am not tolerating her wife to do adultery because she knows what she is
doing in her life. In my life, both friendship and work play a special position. But nothing is permanent in
our life. Friendship is always a blessing. If he is truly my friend, I will not be forced to choose between
him and my profession. If he finds out what his wife is doing and is upset by my decision, there will come
a day when he understands it as well.