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Ethics in Practice What Is Your Public Service Answer?
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Get Help Now!Now that you have completed this course in ethics, think about those questions we posed at the beginning of the course. Have you come to a clearer understanding of the questions? Have you developed an ethical approach that you can incorporate into your own thinking and work? Let’s review the questions. How would you answer them now?
1. Is the changing relevance and definitions of ethics a symptom of our modern times, when we know so much that used to be hidden from our view?
• Why is the definition of acceptable behavior different today? • Is it really different, or do we just know more about what is happening? • Or is it that in today’s world we hold ourselves to a higher standard of moral actions and expect
the same of our government and public servants?
2. Why are we harder on elected officials today when indiscretions in these human beings have been around as long as our country?
• Is it because we know more about our elected and appointed officials due to freedom of the press and overall news coverage?
• Or is it that we hear the critical voices more loudly for the same reasons? • Is it just that we are more disappointed when we realize someone we idolize has clay feet? • Do we have a higher moral standard today than existed even 50 years ago? • Are we more savvy about the issues that can arise from unsavory characters and therefore are
more critical when a problem comes to light?
3. Should public servants advance only their own perspectives and the viewpoints of their followers?
• Do we actively seek out viewpoints different from our own? • Do we only consider those perspectives that reinforce our views, not challenge them? • If we expect an elected official to vote from the perspective of their values that we share, is it right
to expect them to also consider others?
4. How should public servants deal with taxes to make sure that they do not unwittingly hurt a major part of the population?
• Can taxes ever be truly equitable, or is some inequality always going to exist? • If taxes are regressive, hurting the poor more than those who have assets, how do we make
ethical decisions about what and whom to tax? • Should those who have more be responsible for paying more?
5. Is it ethical to cut funding for programs that protect the most vulnerable?
• Who is charged with protection of the most vulnerable? • If government is responsible, can these programs ever be cut and the decisions to do so still
remain ethical? • What ethical decision-making process should be followed?
6. How do we manage the ethical dilemmas in our own public service lives?
• What is our own personal moral and ethical compass that we follow in our daily lives? • How much do our personal values influence or direct our professional and public actions? • How do we need to revise or add to our personal code of ethics to reflect our greater appreciation
of ethics in our public service lives?
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As you work through each of these ethical questions, you’ve probably noticed that even the questions we ask reflect our moral stance and guide our ethically considered response. Indeed the questions we ask are as important as the answers we bring. Perhaps even more so. What additional questions would you bring to these public service discussions? These are the questions that will move you from the classroom and into the complex and challenging world of public service.
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