CHAPTER III GE ETHICS | Assignments Ethics

NANO, REALYN D.

BSBA FM- 1F

I. LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Study Activity:

Case Analysis 2:

Case study 2

“A country with a history of corruption and bribery has made great efforts via education

and prosecution to conduct government business in an open and fair way. The country has made

considerable progress. As part of its reform, the country overhauled its visa procedures for

foreigners wanting to live in the country. In the previous corrupt environment, people with

money would secretly pay off a government employee to have their visa application approved

quickly, while other visa applications took much longer. Now the government has made the

application procedure transparent and established a new procedure in law. The new procedure

offers two visa tracks, the "Regular Track", which does not require any payment, and the

"Premium Track", which requires a US $10,000 payment. The Regular Track takes just as long

to process a visa application as an application without a bribe took before the reforms. The

Premium Track moves along just as quickly as a visa application with a bribe took before the

reforms. Most people wanting to immigrate to the country cannot afford the Premium Track.

What are the issues of integrity, ethics and law posed in the case study? What options

does the country have, and what should it do and why? Classify the moral determinants

of Human Acts in this case. ( Object of the Act, Circumstance, Intention )” 1



Ethics and law are two very distinct things; one might allow for damaging and

immoral behavior, while the other can make people wonder whether they should

abide by them. In this case study, we investigate the extent to which a

fundamentally unethical practice has been effectively made lawful under the

current visa reform regulations. By bribing authorities instead of speaking out

against the delays in the issuance of visas, people themselves contributed to the

rise of this type of corruption. It appears that the government gives those who can

afford it preferential treatment. The consequences of visa programs are worsened

rather than improved by pre-existing economic conditions.

It will trigger a mental process whereby individuals start to believe that anyone

with a sizable amount of discretionary wealth may have access to anything in the

nation. The entire purpose for why transparency reform was introduced would

thus be lost.

1 The case authored by Akshay Vyas, appear on the website of the Markkula

Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Santa Clara

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NANO, REALYN D. BSBA FM- 1F I. LEARNING ACTIVITIES Study Activity: Case Analysis 2: Case study 2 “A country with a history of corruption and bribery has made great efforts via education and prosecution to conduct government business in an open and fair way. The country has made considerable progress. As part of its reform, the country overhauled its visa procedures for foreigners wanting to live in the country. In the previous corrupt environment, people with money would secretly pay off a government employee to have their visa application approved quickly, while other visa applications took much longer. Now the government has made the application procedure transparent and established a new procedure in law. The new procedure offers two visa tracks, the "Regular Track", which does not require any payment, and the "Premium Track", which requires a US $10,000 payment. The Regular Track takes just as long to process a visa application as an application without a bribe took before the reforms. The Premium Track moves along just as quickly as a visa application with a bribe took before the reforms. Most people wanting to immigrate to the country cannot afford the Premium Track. What are the issues of integrity, ethics and law posed in the case study? What options does the country have, and what should it do and why? Classify the moral determinants of Human Acts in this case. ( Object of the Act, Circumstance, Intention )”^1  Ethics and law are two very distinct things; one might allow for damaging and immoral behavior, while the other can make people wonder whether they should abide by them. In this case study, we investigate the extent to which a fundamentally unethical practice has been effectively made lawful under the current visa reform regulations. By bribing authorities instead of speaking out against the delays in the issuance of visas, people themselves contributed to the rise of this type of corruption. It appears that the government gives those who can afford it preferential treatment. The consequences of visa programs are worsened rather than improved by pre-existing economic conditions. It will trigger a mental process whereby individuals start to believe that anyone with a sizable amount of discretionary wealth may have access to anything in the nation. The entire purpose for why transparency reform was introduced would thus be lost. (^1) The case authored by Akshay Vyas, appear on the website of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Santa Clara

VI. ASSIGNMENT:

MORALITY OF THE HUMAN ACTS  Freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to speak, the father of his acts. Human acts, that is, acts that are freely chosen inconsequence of a judgment of conscience, can be morally evaluated. They are either good or evil. Differentiate between Human Acts and Acts of Man HUMAN ACTS ACTS OF MAN

Man is as possible and accountable with the consequences of his act.
Actions are done intentionally.
Actions are done with full knowledge and willingly. 1. Actions are done involuntarily. 2. Actions are done instinctive. 3. Actions are done unconsciously. Elements in Determining Morality  The object chosen is a good toward which the will deliberately directs itself. It is the matter of a human act. The object chosen morally specifies the act of the will, insofar as reason recognizes and judges it to be or not to be in conformity with the true good. Objective norms of morality express the rational order of good and evil, attested to by conscience. The intention resides in the acting subject. Because it lies at the voluntary source of an action and determines it by its end, intention is an element essential to the moral evaluation of an action. The end is the first goal of the intention and indicates the purpose pursued in the action. The intention is a movement of the will toward the end: it is concerned with the goal of the activity. It aims at the good anticipated from the action undertaken. Intention is not limited to directing individual actions, but can guide several actions toward one and the same purpose; it can orient one's whole life toward its ultimate end. The circumstances , including the consequences, are secondary elements of a moral act. They contribute to increasing or diminishing the moral goodness or evil of human acts (for example, the amount of a theft). They can also diminish or increase the agent's responsibility (such as acting out of a fear of death). Circumstances of themselves cannot change the moral quality of acts themselves; they can make neither good nor right an action that is in itself evil. EVALUATION

being hungry 16. Blood donating
writing a love letter 17. digestion
watching movies 18. breathing
abortion 19. observing
gambling 20. reading Human Acts Acts of Man Day dreaming dreaming Taking a bath Body reflexes cheating Being hungry Writing a love letter Imagining Watching movies Neural impulses Abortion hearing gambling digestion listening breathing Washing of clothes observing Blood donating reading

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