ETHC 3P82 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Change Blindness, Social Contract, Peer Pressure
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Normative myopia (not seeing the issue at all), unintentional blindness (focus only on one issues), When ethical decision making goes wrong why do good. People make different ethical decision in some situation. Reason why good people do bad is because of stumbling blocks: purposely choose to do unethical thing even if person is good: intellectual and cogitative: Ignorance, min decisions and min decision making process: willpower and motivation. Peer pressure, not courageous, easier to do wrong. Why do good people engage in bad acts. Denial of victim, denial of harm, denial of responsibility, higher loyalty, reference to ledger and competition comparison. Script are basically reaction we have programmed in our head to react to a particular ethical situation which we become immune to such as reporting death to family members: active thinking reduces this issue. When it comes to moral development it comes in three stages in. Scripts each have two steps: pre conventional.
