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Case StudyA 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 wanti...

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Case Study 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) -

Ethics and law are related in that they both reflect ideals and guide behavior, but they are not the same. In certain cases, the law appears to permit immoral and destructive activity, while in others, flaws in the law raise the question of whether people should follow them at all. The key question addressed in this case study is whether the new post-reform visa laws have effectively legalized an activity that is fundamentally unethical. The government, as well as the general public, are both stakeholders in such events. The government's recognition that they could profit from people's urgency and readiness to pay to get a visa faster may have been the motivation for legalizing this sort of corruption under the guise of the premium track. People themselves contributed to the emergence of the issue by bribing officials rather than aggressively raising their voice against the delays in the issuance of visas. As is the case here, the concept of being ethical and the legality of a certain event can be incompatible. Following the revisions, the concept of creating a premium track for obtaining a visa with a payment is now legal in many nations and commonly implemented around the world. As a result, this activity cannot be considered criminal because it is transparent. The money extracted can be viewed as remuneration for government employees who will be required to put in more effort for processing functions. This system cannot be said to be illegal if the rights of the other applicants are not violated. This is understandable given that there are two ways to apply for a visa, and there is no evidence that only those who apply through the premium track will be granted visas. The only difference is the amount of time it takes for the visa to be processed. From an ethical and therefore moral standpoint, such a premium track will result in individuals with disposable monetary privilege having easier access to the company without taking into account any exigency that may be the precise cause for their decision to move to the country. From an ethical standpoint, it could be argued that such a change

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is attempting to legitimize an unequal arrangement. The law appears to permit exceedingly destructive unethical behavior. This will facilitate the spread of inequality and, as a result, contribute to the worsening of global injustice. On ethical and moral grounds, such a behavior is completely unjust, but its legality cannot be questioned. There is apparent favoritism on the side of the government towards those who can afford to use the premium technique. There are a variety of perspectives from which such a practice can be condemned. The first is how it worsens inequity. It is a well-known truth that wealth inequality exists throughout the world, allowing some people to spend such large sums for visas while others are unable to have three square meals. Premium track visa programs increase rather than ameliorate the effects of pre-existing economic inequality by purposefully distorting people's ability to live in a country where they can feel safe and succeed. As a result, it is clear that such a premium track exacerbates inequality, and that encouraging such activities will exacerbate global inequities. The fact that such a legal road to "buying" visas and therefore access into the corporation will reduce everything to purely fiscal entities in the eyes of citizens and those emigrating to the country demonstrates the country's lack of solid moral roots and, as a result, its lack of integrity. It will set in motion a mental process in which people begin to assume that anyone with a substantial amount of discretionary income may have access to everything and everything in the country. As a result, the entire goal for which the transparency reform was introduced would be defeated. Object of the act: It's commendable that it aims to improve the reform process and money management, ensuring that funds are channeled to the right people and that corruption is avoided; Circumstance: A former corrupt country has made tremendous steps to conduct government operations in a transparent and fair manner through education and prosecution; Intention: To enact legislation that improves the openness of their acts.

LEARNING ACTIVITY 4

Title: One Choice One afternoon when I was still in Manila, my best friend called me and told me that she would be out drinking with her other friends after their class, but her mother doesn’t know. She reminded me to tell her mother that we’re together if ever her mother asks about her whereabouts. I have a close relationship with her mother as I go into their house sometimes. And another problem is it was raining as the night comes. Going home to their house takes an hour and longer if she rides during rush hour.

Two or more behaviors Based on moral standards Can do each behavior but cannot do simultaneously Condemned to choose even the wrong/bad or fail for doing what ought to be done

To tell her mom the truth, or keep it as a secret to satisfy my friend and our friendship To tell her to go home so she gets home early and not to worry her mother, to keep our relationship I would like to maintain our friendship; I also like to be honest with her mother so I could be seen as a good influence to her daughter I would like to tell her that her mother is worried whenever she goes out, and give her advice whenever she’s out to drink. I want to have an honest and good relationship with my best friend and also her mother....