Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Moral Responsibility........#sike

Today in my Ethics course we were discussing pornography, indecency and moral responsibility. We discuss various topics in class because as future journalist, we are morally responsible for everything we write.

Some of my classmates felt that now we don't have the luxury of "freedom of speech" anymore. Many classmates agree that everything we write , it will eventually come back to haunt us in some way. It seems that everyone has an opinion and there will always be someone to oppose what you say.

We as journalist constantly have to make decisions and take that "moral agent" role that we learned about in Ethics.

We ended class watching videos about celebrities and community leaders that are constantly making ethically wrong decisions.

Take a look at this clip:


While most students agreed that this was inappropriate for the cops at work and morally wrong, it was two students who felt they shouldn't be in trouble because we need more cops. (the nerve)


You be the judge? What would be the ethical decision you chose?

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