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Title: Military Ethics


1
Military Ethics
2
Overview
  • Group Exercise on Values
  • Ethics Defined
  • Sources of Ethics

3
Exercise
4
Exercise Values
It was customary in some German Concentration
camps to release a woman if she became pregnant.
  • A married woman in a concentration camp faces
    eventual death. She makes a decision to attempt
    to become pregnant by one of the German guards.
    Measure her decision against your value system,
    and go stand by the sign that reflects your
    position.
  • A married woman in a concentration camp has four
    children and a husband safe in Berlin asking her
    to escape. She decides to become pregnant by a
    guard.

5
Exercise Values
  • An elderly gentleman expressed his desire that
    should a heart transplant be needed by someone at
    the time of the elderly mans death, his heart be
    used for transplant. The elder gentleman is now
    near death and is being sustained in life by a
    breathing apparatus. His is unconscious and,
    according to all possible medical predications,
    has only a few days to live. A young man of 35
    is in need of a heart transplant within 24 hours
    to be able to live. The doctors and the family
    of the elderly man decided to kill him painlessly
    with a drug in order for the transplant to be
    possible.
  • Young people should be able to practice birth
    control or get abortions without parental
    knowledge.

6
Exercise Values
  • Lt Col Oliver North had a deep conviction that
    aid to the Contras was vital to this countrys
    national interests. After Congress passed a law
    making it illegal to provide aid (through
    appropriated funds) to the Contras, North chose
    to deliberately mislead Congress regarding some
    of his activities. When U.S. national security
    is a stake, it is occasionally acceptable that
    DoD members provide Congress with false or no
    information about classified projects, even if
    such activities run counter to the spirit, in not
    the letter, of the law.
  • There should be be no restrictions on visits by
    members of the opposite sex in the dormitory
    rooms.

7
Exercise Values
  • The use of drugs should be an individual
    decision, not one made by society.
  • Loyalty is more important then integrity.
  • Women should be allowed to fight in combat in
    defense of their country.
  • Sexual orientation should have no bearing in
    selection or promotion for any job.
  • Ones career should come before ones family.

8
Exercise Values
  • Affirmative action should be abolished
  • Race/gender should be an admissions criteria for
    graduate school.
  • Abortions are akin to murder.
  • The use of drugs should be an individual
    decision, not one made by society.
  • There should be no separation of church and
    state.
  • The ends sometimes justifies the means.

9
Ethics
  • the study of good and evil, or right and wrong,
    of duty and obligation in human conduct, and of
    reasoning and choice about them

10
Sources of Ethics
  • Customs
  • Rules
  • Goals
  • Circumstances

11
  • Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for
    life.
  • Albert Schweitzer
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