Ethics Journal 3 - What role should emotions play in morality? Do you believe there are differences PDF

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What role should emotions play in morality?
Do you believe there are differences in the ways men and women deliberate about moral issues?...

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Your entry should share your personal ethical reflections in relation to the reading assignment. Possible reflection question(s): 

What role should emotions play in morality?

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Do you believe there are differences in the ways men and women deliberate about moral issues?

The journal is meant to facilitate your learning as you assess your personal moral code. Emotions play a huge part in morality. We tend to make good moral decisions in life because most know what it feels like to feel bad, hurt, guilty, embarrassed, or angry. Because we know what those icky things feel like we don't want others to feel that way. We tend to treat others the way we want to be treated so we tend to make our ethical decisions in life based off of that. I know exactly what it feels like to feel guilty for something I have done. I hate feeling guilty for hurting someone, so I choose not to hurt people because the last thing I want is to feel guilty. I always tell my kids that they should never make a decision about something when their emotions are running high. I tell them if they are hurt or angry, they need to take some time to sit back and think about what they may do before they decide to do it. Emotions can sometimes lead us to make bad decisions leaving us with unwanted consequences. I believe there is a huge difference in the way men and women deliberate about moral issues. Men have a tendency not to take things as seriously as women. Men also do not have as many emotions as women do. Women have a tendency to be way more emotional than men are causing us to see things way differently and taking things more seriously. A good example is a man is more likely to walk away from his child than a woman is. For whatever reason most men just don't seem to process emotions and feelings the way women do making it easier for men to make unethical decisions in life not just for himself but also for others. I have 3 children from two different men. One of my children's fathers doesn't care about where his daughter is or how she is even doing. He hasn't seen her in over 9 years. The father of my other two children passed away in 2009 because he made terrible decisions on how life was supposed to be lived. Both fathers not only didn't care about themselves but also didn't care about their children. As a mother I couldn't imagine living without my children and I couldn't imagine being away from them. I love them and want nothing but the best for them and it is so extremely important to me that I set a good daily example about how life should be lived and how we should treat others so that they learn to be kind, compassionate, loving humans. I always say that my son is not going to be a normal man when he is grown with his own family because he did not have a

father to teach him how men are supposed to be. I raised him to be more caring of others feelings and I believe that as a women forced to be not only the mother but also the father, my son will not be a normal "shallow" man. He will make better ethical decisions because he has been raised in a very emotional household with 3 other women. Men do not have the same kind of hormones that a woman has so they tend not to carry as many emotions that we do. It is easier for a man to brush things off and pretend nothing ever happened than it is for a woman to do. Women tend to base their ethical decisions more off of their emotions where a man has a tendency to base ethical decisions off of experience....