MATE, NIKKA MAE M.

BA PSYCH 1.2C
ETHICS

1.The Robin Hood Robber: You witness a man rob a bank, but instead of keeping the money
for himself, he donates it to a local orphanage. You know that this orphanage has been
struggling for funding, and the money will allow the children to receive proper food, clothing,
and medical care. If you report the crime, the money will be taken away from the orphanage and
given back to the bank.
What should you do?
If I witness this situation, I will report this crime because what he did was wrong, even
though he wanted to help the orphanage. And the money that he wants to give to the
orphanage comes from robbery. If he is willing to help and he doesn’t have money, he
must ask for help from others through soliciting and it must be good if the money that the
orphanage will use in comes from the heart.

2. The Unfaithful Wife: You are an emergency worker that has just been called to the scene of
an accident. When you arrive, you see that the car belongs to your wife. Fearing the worst, you
rush over, only to see that she is trapped in her car with another man whom she’s been having
an affair.
You reel back in shock, devastated by what you have just found out. As you step back, the
wreck in front of you comes into focus. You see your wife is seriously hurt and she needs
attention straight away. Even if she gets immediate attention, there’s a very high chance she’ll
die. You look at the seat next to her and see her lover. He’s bleeding heavily from a wound in
the neck, and you need to stem the flow of the blood immediately.
If you attend to your wife, her lover will bleed to death, and you may not be able to save her
anyway. If you work on the man, you can save his life, but your wife will definitely die. What
should you do?
If I am the husband, the first thing I will do is save them, and I will not think if they are
having an affair because I will prioritize their safety. I will immediately call for another
emergency worker to ask for help so that both of them can carry them to the hospital to
cure. If they are already heal, I will ask my wife what’s going on between them so all of
my questions are answered.
3. The Sick Patients: You are a skilled doctor with five (5) patients who all need different
organ transplants. There are currently no organs available to give them, and if they don’t get
their transplants soon, they will all die. You have a sixth patient, who is dying of an incurable
disease. At the moment, you are giving him medicine to ease his pain and prolong his life. He is
a compatible organ donor for your five (5) other patients, but the medicine he is taking will
keep him alive just a day longer than they have left.
If you were to stop giving him medicine, he would die before them in a very painful way, but
you would then be able to use his organs to save the other five (5). What should you do?
If I will be the doctor even it is hard I will stop giving him medicine because there was
five patients who will die if I didn’t do any transplant. It is hard to choose who will I going
to save but the first things comes to my mind is five patients is greater than the patient
who are healthy. I will not cause any harm to the healthy because I will just lessen the
medicine that he is taking. It is hard decision but many people can get positive results.

4. The Plagiarized Report: You are an English teacher at a high school. One of your students
is a very bright and gifted girl, whom you have always enjoyed teaching. She has always
achieved high grades throughout her school years, and is now in her final year and getting ready
to graduate. Unfortunately, she has been very ill this term and missed several weeks of
schooling. She has just turned in a report which is worth 40% of her final grade, but you realize
that she did not write it herself. She has copied a report found online and tried to pass it off as
her own work.
If you report her plagiarization to the school authorities, it will be entered on her permanent
record, making her ineligible to attend the prestigious university that she has dreamed of
attending. If you refuse to accept the report, her final mark will be very poor and may harm her
chances of being chosen for the university. If you mark the paper as though you believed it was
her own work, she will do very well, and stand every chance of getting her desired
university. What should you do?
If I am the teacher I will tell her what plagiarism is and I will give her time to change her
work because If I will report her , in just one mistake she did may affect many things
specially her dream to go to universities. I know that she is hard working and always
achieve a high grades so I will give chance to prove that even it is not through copy she
can pass her report.