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 STEPS IN RESOLVING ETHICAL DILEMMAS

At times, the situations occur where one cannot make immediate decisions as the moral reasons come into conflict. The moral reasons can be rights, duties, goals or obligations, which make decision making complex. The problem with ethical decision making is that one single decision affects lots of other decision and the key is to ensure a win-win situation is arrived upon. Reasonable solutions to ethical dilemmas are clear, informed, and wellreasoned.

STEPS IN RESOLVING ETHICAL DILEMMAS 1. Moral clarity: Identify the relevant moral values. The most basic step in confronting ethical dilemmas is to become aware of them. This means identifying the moral values and reasons applicable in the situation, and bearing them in mind as further obligations are made. These values and reasons might be obligations, rights, good ideals (which might be desirable but not mandatory), or other moral considerations.

2. Conceptual clarity: Be clear about key concepts. This means the ability to understand the concept, understand the reason for its existence, understand the processes involved, to as extent that one is able to make it simple enough for the common man to relate to it in simple terms.

3. Informed about the facts: Obtain relevant information. This means gathering information that is pertinent in light of the applicable moral values. Sometimes the primary difficulty in resolving moral dilemmas is uncertainty about the facts, rather than conflicting values itself.

4. Informed about the options: Consider all (realistic) options.

Initially, ethical dilemmas seem to force us into a two-way choice: Do this or do that. Either bow to a supervisor’s orders or blow the whistle to the town authorities. A closer look after reveals additional options. (Sometimes writing down the main options and sub options as a matrix or decision tree ensures that all options are considered.)

5. Well-reasoned: Make a reasonable decision. Arrive at a carefully reasoned judgement by weighing all the relevant moral reasons and facts. This is not a mechanical process that a computer or algorithm might do for us. Instead, it is a deliberation aimed at integrating all the relevant reasons, facts, and values – in a morally reasonable manner. If there is no ideal solution, as is often the case, we seek a satisfactory one, what Herbert Simon dubbed “satisfactory”

Often a code of ethics provides a straight-forward solution to dilemmas, but not always. Codes are not recipe books that contain a comprehensive list of absolute (exceptionless) rules together with precise hierarchies of relative stringency among the rules.

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