- About social values not laws
- Treat others as you would wish to be treated
- Evaluating how things affect others – particularly negatively
- Respectful treatment – treated as an equal (human) being
- Privacy protected/safe environment
- Health and well being (and property) protected
You find some good images on the web that would look good on your site. You copy and paste them to your blog.
I think this kind of behavior is related to morality. First of all, this website was created by others. Not something that belongs to you. When we need to learn from others, I think we need to inform the author to get the power to use. Or when we use it, indicate that this is something that references someone else.
You are in a hurry to finish an assignment and you find the perfect explanation of a difficult concept on wikipedia. You decide to copy it into your work.
Obviously, this kind of behavior is to copy other people’s works. When we use resources that are useful to others. We need to add a quote. And clearly indicate where these resources come from. We can refer to the content expressed by the resource. Explain through your own thinking. If it is just a simple copy. This means we steal the creativity of others.
You are a medical researcher and you think you have discovered a new drug that cures lung cancer. It worked well on mice although a few of them died of heart problems. You want to test it on people. You recruit 100 lung cancer patients into your treatment programme. You don’t tell them about the new drug. You treat 50 patients with usual drugs and 50 with the new drug to see which is better.
This is obviously an immoral thing. First of all, you can’t ensure the safety of this drug. Some experiments work well on mice and do not necessarily harm the human body. Second, I think people who participate in the experiment need to know about the new drug. This is their right. They have the right to know. Therefore, if you can’t guarantee the safety of the drug. That is irresponsibility for the lives of others. Therefore, this behavior is very unethical.
You are doing your PhD about drug abuse among students. You interview 30 students about their drug use. You discover that one of the students is actually a fairly big time dealer and you report him to the police.
I think this is a good example. First of all, when we encounter illegal crimes. We should bravely stand up and call the police. In addition, drug abuse can have a huge impact on society and people. For example, the abuse of drugs poses a great threat to the physical and social development of people. Therefore, I think that when we find someone who abuses drugs and trades. We should call the police immediately for help.
You are a researcher looking at the effect of violent computer games on children. You recruit 20 children into your study. Over a month you regularly show them images of violence to see if it has an adverse effect on their behaviour. One of the children becomes quite distressed each time and so you stop showing her images and drop her from the study.
I think this is a very unethical act. First of all, every child is in the stage of growth. If you turn them into the goal of studying violent computer games. They are very susceptible to interference from this information. There may be a tendency to violence in the future. We need to study these situations in other ways. There are indeed big problems with the use of children. However, when the researcher sees that the child is very depressed, the study is interrupted. This seems correct to me.
You want to research how easy it is to hack into your organisation’s computer system by persuading people to divulge login and password details. You recruit a small team to ring up key people in the organisation and persuade them to give either their own or their boss’s details.
This behavior is clearly unethical. And this behavior is also illegal. It is a criminal act to divulge the information of others without the permission of others. In addition, the disclosure of the boss’s personal information may lead to the closure of the company or the theft of trade secrets. On the other hand, if someone else’s bank card password is compromised, the personal property of others may be seriously threatened.
You are doing an initial research in area of a town where may bars and pubs are located, to estimate the level of problematic social behaviour in the area. your research is independent from the police, because you want to observe their behaviour as well. You observe both abusive and violent behaviour.
I think this behavior and morality are not interrelated. First of all, this is to study the level of social behavior in the region. We observe them by studying some behaviors of some professions. This will not affect anyone else. Moreover, this is not an issue of illegality or crime. Therefore, I feel that this behavior and morality are not interrelated.
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