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This document contains assessment tasks and questions from an ethics course. It includes 3 sections: 1) Questions about differentiating ethics and morality, providing examples, and discussing rationalization. 2) A scenario about a student accessing a private college's computers without permission to complete school work, and questions about whether her actions were wrong or helped others. 3) A case study about a mother-in-law failing to follow the dying wishes of scattering ashes, as stated in a will, and questions about the ethical issues and options in this situation.

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This document contains assessment tasks and questions from an ethics course. It includes 3 sections: 1) Questions about differentiating ethics and morality, providing examples, and discussing rationalization. 2) A scenario about a student accessing a private college's computers without permission to complete school work, and questions about whether her actions were wrong or helped others. 3) A case study about a mother-in-law failing to follow the dying wishes of scattering ashes, as stated in a will, and questions about the ethical issues and options in this situation.

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Lailanie R. Saladino Mrs.

Jivio

HRST – S4B4

MODULE 1 ACTIVITIES INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS

ASSESSMENT TASKS 1

Answer the given questions below. Copy first the question before you give your answer.

1. In your own words, differentiate ethics and morality.

2. Cite at least three real life situations or scenarios to show their differences.

3. Is it ok to rationalize? When and why?

4. Why do we say that ethics is not a factual knowledge like other disciplines?

5. What would be your biggest reason to resort to environmental ethics? To development ethics?

ASSESSMENT TASKS 2

Answer the given questions below. Copy first the question before you give your answer.

Judy, a gifted high school student, wants to become a lawyer in the future. Because she comes

from a poor family, she needs a scholarship in order to attend college. Some of her classes require

students to do extra research projects in order to get an A. The school has 3 few older PCs but there are

always long lines of students waiting to use them during the school day. After school, she usually works

at a parttime job to help support her family.

One evening Judy visits the library of a private college few miles from her family's apartment, and

she finds plenty of unused PCs connected to the Internet. She surreptitiously looks over the shoulder of

another student to learn a valid login/password combination. Judy returns to the library several times a

week, and by using its PCs and printers she efficiently completes the extra research projects, graduates

from high school with straight As and gets a full-ride scholarship to attend a prestigious university.

Questions:

1. Did Judy do anything wrong?

2. Who benefited from Judy's course of action?

3. Who was hurt by Judy's course of action?

4. Did Judy have an unfair advantage over her high school classmates?

5. Would any of your answers change if it turns out Judy did not win a college scholarship after all and is
now working at a burger joint?

6. Are there better ways Judy could have accomplished her objectives?

ASSESSMENT TASKS 3

The class will be divided into three groups to share thoughts to the class on the assigned case

CASESTUDY2

A woman who live her life short and unhappy died recently. But before her death, she discussed

her wishes with her mother-in-law. She had nobody to tell her wishes being orphaned by her parents

and immediate family. Her mother-in-law said she would do what her dying daughter-in-law’s wishes.

What she wanted was for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near a place she had lived one of those

few brief happy times of her adult life. In her will, it was also stated that the mother-in-law would take

control of her estate.

When the woman died, instead of scattering her ashes in the ocean as she wished, her motherin-law
buried her ashes in a family plot near her in-law’s home. She claimed she wanted to keep the

ashes close to her because of her own grief.

Assume that the mother-in-law is legally required to follow the wishes stated in the will, but that

no one will check and it is very unlikely that the mother-in-law will have any problem with the law.

TO THINK ABOUT:

What are the issues of integrity posed in the case study?

What are the issues of ethics posed in the case study?

What options does the mother-in-law have?

What should she do and why?

What are your thoughts about this case?

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