PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Szasz, Surrogate Decision-Maker
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Ethical issues: definitions, a law is a set of rules (i. e. norms of behaviour) that you must follow, ethics should follow. are a set of core values; (i. e. doing the right thing). A set of guidelines that you: there is a significant amount of overlap between ethics and laws. For example, sleeping with a client is unethical, but it"s not illegal. Your license may be revoked as a practitioner, but the police and law authorities won"t get involved: the heinz dilemma showcases an issue which has no easy answer due to situational circumstances. For example, we would say that it"s never morally alright to steal. But in this dilemma, a man"s wife is dying, and the drug needed to save her life is too expensive for this man to steal. Are there higher morals in this case, about what"s right and wrong: legal issues, people in social conflict: people who display abnormal behaviour are in social conflict.