Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Blog Assignment #10

STEP ONE: THE DETAILS OF THE CASE

(1) Choose one inquiry, from inquiries 1 - 28 (pages 114 - 117). Indicate which inquiry you chose, and then briefly explain it in your own words: A cook drops two expensive steaks during a dinner rush, he then picks them up places them on plates and puts them in the window to be served to the guests.

(2) Stakeholders: The cook, the restaurant, the other cooks, the guests, the managers.

(3) Are the details given sufficient? Why or why not? Yes, it tells you exactly what happened. It gave me sufficient details to form an opinion.

(4) What additional questions does this inquiry raise? How often do the cooks serve food that has fallen on the floor? Is this common practice?

STEP TWO: THE RELEVANT CRITERIA

1. Obligations (aka "duties"): Optional this week
2. Moral Ideals (aka "virtues"): See breakdown of ideals below
3. Consequences (aka "outcomes" or "results"): Optional this week

NOTE: Not ALL of the following ideals will apply! Only consider the main ones that you believe apply, in the inquiry you chose. Don't just pick the easy ones to consider, because you didn't take the time to thoroughly read the chapter and learn what each one of these actually means. I will quiz you when we do group work on Thursday.

* Cardinal Ideal/Virtue of Justice: This is usually referring to the traits of an individual. I believe this applies because he is serving guests a dirty product, and they deserve to seek justice upon him.

* Cardinal Ideal/Virtue of Courage: The cook should have the courage to tell his boss he dropped the steaks and cook new ones for the guests regardless of the consequences.

* Cardinal Ideal/Virtue of Honesty: The cook should have the courage to tell his boss he dropped the steaks and cook new ones for the guests regardless of the consequences.

* Cardinal Ideal/Virtue of Forgiveness: If the guests found out what the cook did, they should forgive the cook.

* Cardinal Ideal/Virtue of Repentance: The cook should say sorry to all parties involved and abstain from doing it again.

* Cardinal Ideal/Virtue of Reparation: The cook should instead of serving the food; he should cook them new steaks.

* Conflicting ideals- The cook should definitely repent from doing it again, but the guests should also forgive him, as this makes it better for all parties involved.

STEP THREE: POSSIBLE COURSES OF ACTION

Alternative #1: The cook does not serve the steaks, and cooks them new ones.

Alternative #2: They serve the steaks, but do not charge the guests for the meal.


STEP FOUR: THE MOST ETHICAL ACTION

Examine the action taken or proposed and decide whether it achieves the greater good (the most widespread "respect for persons")...if it does not, choose one that will, from your alternatives. Where the choice of actions is such that no good can be achieved, choose the action that will result in the lesser evil.

I do not think the steaks should be served. That is plain nasty. While the guests will be pissed off that their food is taking so long, it is without a doubt the best course of action. I also think because they had to wait so long the food should be free.

SELF EVALUATION

1. In your own words, describe something new that you learned from this week’s assigned reading material and guidance.
I learned a lot of the definitions for the ideals/virtues.

2. In your own words, describe in detail some insight you gained, about the material, from one of your classmates' blogs this week. I honestly didn’t read any of the classmates blogs this week.

3. Did you post a thoroughly completed post to your blog on time this week? Ha ha ha, no I did not. This was a make up assignment.

4. Did you ALSO print this out, so you can bring it to class and earn total points? This was a make up assignment.

5. Of 25 points total, my efforts this week deserve: I will take whatever points you give me. This is a make up assignment, I am just very thankful you allowed me to complete it. So whatever points you give I will take with gratitude.

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