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How to Make Ethical Decisions
by Jon Kimes
I am a strong believer that most
people want to do the right things and as such we value, at an organic
level, ethics. Ethics has been described as the study of moral
standards and how they affect human conduct. Some people have an
innate sense of ethics but from my experience most do not.
Here are six principles* which, when evaluated, are simple and
effective and they can easily be applied to the dog fancy and the
decisions we are called upon to make on a routine basis.
The six principles which comprise ethics are:
1) Autonomy –> respecting an individual’s rights
2) Beneficence –> the desire to do good
3) Nonmaleficence –> the desire to do no harm
4) Justice –> to ensure you treat equal situations
equally but also ensure you treat unequal situations unequally.
In short, you must ensure your decision takes into account the whole
situation.
5) Fidelity –> loyalty and faithfulness
6) Veracity –> saying what is true, not lying
With this composite list you should be able to analyze every ethical
delima and determine the correct course of action by analyzing the
impact of each of the six elements and how they act upon the outcome.
*Rick
Cohan speech called, “Organizational Ethics, Bioethics and Compliance.”
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