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CMV-101 Topic 6b Ethical Decision-Making
1. Topic 6 Assignment
Due Sun. December 11 @ 11:59 pm
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3. Due Dates
• Ethical Decision-Making due Sun. Dec 11
• Quiz 6 due Sun. Dec 11
• Everything (including late work) due Wed. Dec. 14
• Final Exam due Fri. Dec 16 @ 11:59 pm.
• No class on Fri. Dec. 16
4. Topic 6 Assignment
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16. What Moral rules
Shape your decision?
What Natural laws
Shape your decision
What Government (Civil) laws
Shape your decision
17. What are Ethics?
Ethics (moral philosophy), the discipline concerned with what
is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The
term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values
or principles. “How shall we live?”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ethics-philosophy
18. What rules govern our ethical choices?
• Moral or Social
• Natural Law
• Civil Law
19. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially or culturally
appropriate?
• Natural Law
• Civil Law
20. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially appropriate?
• Natural Law - I’m hungry!
• Civil Law
21. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially gracious to do?
• Natural Law - I’m hungry! I’m diabetic!
• Civil Law
22. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially culturally approp?
• Natural Law - I’m hungry! I’m diabetic!
• Civil Law - Did I pay for that slice?
23. Should I take that slice of pie?
• Moral Law - what is socially gracious to do?
• Natural Law - I’m hungry! I’m diabetic!
• Civil Law - Did I pay for that slice?
• Biblical Law — Be generous
24. Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed
down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your
lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured
back to you.”
(Luke 6:38 ESV)
25. Do nothing from sel
fi
sh ambition or conceit, but in humility
count others more signi
fi
cant than yourselves. Let each of
you look not only to his own interests, but also to the
interests of others.
(Phil 2:3–4 ESV)
31. Worldview:
China’s One Child Per Family Law
• The State should plan the growth of society
• Therefore, the State plans families
• Therefore, families should be loyal to the State and only have
one child per family.
32. World: Chinese Communism
• Each person is responsible to the State
• Each decision considers the good of the State
• Each outcome should align with the directives of the State
• Don’t have more than one child per family
33. World: Christian Worldview
• Obedience to God
• God commanded Adam & Eve to be fruitful and multiply
• Every child is created in the image of God!
• Kingdom of God is greater than the kingdom of people.
36. Worldview: DILEMMA
1. Parents have a daughter
2. Mother accidentally gives birth to son
3. Do they get ride of the daughter because
the son takes care of the parents?
37. Social:
You need a SON
Natural:
You had a Child!
Civil:
ONe Child per family!
Biblical:
Be fruitful & Multiply
Image of God
DILEMMA
40. Mauna Loa Observatory
11,135 Feet elevation
Built in 1965
Solar observatory warns of solar storms, changes in the Sun
Coronal mass ejections
Measures climate change, CO2 levels in the atmosphere
Front line of Tracking global warming and climate change
41. Mauna Loa Observatory
11,135 Feet elevation
Built in 1965
Solar observatory warns of solar storms, changes in the Sun
Coronal mass ejections
Measures climate change, CO2 levels in the atmosphere
Front line of Tracking global warming and climate change
43. Mauna Loa Observatory
Scientific - Modernist Worldview — scientifically important
Civil Law — Land belongs to the Federal Government
Hawaiian Traditional Worldview — sacred land, belongs to Pele
44. How does a Christian Worldview
guide our Ethical decision-Making
45. Act 1 - Creation
God created humans in his image
Humans have god-given value
Humans created to
fl
ourish
46. Act 1 - Creation
Humans created to care for earth
47. Act 2 - The Fall
Su
ff
ering exists because of Sin
Disorder & con
fl
ict are because of sin
48. Act 3 - Redemption
Jesus came to atone for sin and
restore our relationship with God
49. Act 4 - Restoration
God is in the process of restoring our
relationship with Him
God is the process of restoring His
creation
52. Step Two
Identify the Stakeholders
(The interested parties)
Describe the bene
fi
ts for each option
Describe the consequences for each
53. Step Three
Identify the laws or principles
a. What are the civil laws?
b. What are the moral social rules?
c. What are the natural laws?
d. What are the Biblical principles?
54. Step Four
Present an argument for option 1
Support it using the four laws
including Scripture
59. Ethical Decision-Making
1. Define the dilemma, Identify the options
2. Identify the stakeholders (interested parties)
3. Identify the laws or principles (gov’t, moral, natural, Bible)
4. Present the argument for option 1
5. Present the argument for option 2
6. Argue for your option & support it from a CWV
7. What are the consequences, & how will you alleviate/minimize them?
61. The Dilemma
You arrive home
You realize you have a $50 bottle of
champagne in your cart you didn’t
pay for.
62. Step One
Identify the Options
Option 1 — keep it for New Years!
Option 2 — return it to Safeway
63. Step Two
Identify Stakeholders
Safeway — its their property
You! — You’ll enjoy it! You don’t have
the time to drive back to Safeway
Friends —they will enjoy it!
64. Step Three
Identify Rules & Laws
Civil Law — it’s shoplifting
Social Law — don’t ask, don’t tell
Natural Law — alcohol is not healthy
66. Step Four
Argue Option 1
Don’t ask, Don’t tell
The joy you bring to your friends will
override any guilt you have for not
paying.
67. Step Four
Argue Option 1
We must use our time wisely
“Make the best use of the time,
because the days are evil”
(Eph. 5:16)
68. Step Five
Argue Option 2
Drive back to Safeway,
Return the bottle
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Exodus 20:15
69. Step Six
Present Your Argument
Return the bottle of champagne
because (1) You can bless your
friends another way, (2) Your time
belongs to God, not yourself, and …
70. Step Six
Present Your Argument
Alcohol has calories, sugar, is not
healthy, and one of your friends might
get drunk, drive home and die in a car
accident, leave their child motherless,
and that will been your conscious forever
71. Step Seven
Christian Worldview
God created men and women in His
image. Stealing diminishes His image
God created men and women to honor
Him. Stealing does not honor Him
76. Wealth or Environment
1. Russia attacked Ukraine
2. US sanctioned Russia,
3. Oil prices spiked, in
fl
ation
skyrocketed, Americans are
su
ff
ering
77. Wealth or Environment
1. Russia attacked Ukraine
2. US sanctioned Russia,
3. Oil prices spiked, in
fl
ation
4. We can drill in the Arctic
78. Wealth or Environment
1. Russia attacked Ukraine
2. US sanctioned Russia,
3. Oil prices spiked, in
fl
ation
4. We can drill in the Arctic
5. But we will endanger wildlife
