This morning, I'm teaching a workshop on ethical decision making. It is an unusual class, one prone to sparking a great deal of introspection. You can tell the participants are reviewing their own conduct as we go over various points and unless there are some saints present, the memories aren't always comforting.
That's good. The subject requires humility and a willingness to confront the convenient rationalizations we can so easily construct. Near the end of the workshop is a challenging case study and its Right versus Right scenario permits some fencing over which "Right" shall prevail.
Always interesting.
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Of course, I'm dying of curiosity as to the "right vs. right" scenario that was presented, but I can think of many others.
In my Ethics, Leadership & Faith class for my MBA (it was a faith-based program), we were posed with scenarios such as whether a landfill that had been in the same place for many years should be required to move operations since a nearby municipality decided to approve zoning for a school within range of the landfill's waste.
No easy either-or decisions are the true test of leadership. Kinda reminds me of the Kobayashi Maru test.
:)
My ethics are more ethical than yours! I win, you lose! I'm the king of the castle!
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