Ethical Dilemma Faced In College Environment - No Longer Drink And Drive In College



Ethical Dilemma Faced In College Environment - No Longer Drink And Drive In College

Brief Synopsis of the Ethical Issue

Teens face ethical dilemmas at school and at home regularly. Sometimes they face situations that experienced adults find challenging. If you are working with a group of teens, you can help them with the dilemmas by discussing scenarios involving ethical decisions. Using open-ended questions helps teens come up with solutions on their own. These exercises help teens prepare for possible dilemmas they may face. Drinking and driving resulted in the deaths or injury of over 37,000 people. The age group from 16-24 (college level) years is responsible for over half of the fatal incidents due to alcohol related crashes.This paper identifies ethical decision making regarding the specific topic. This paper is based on presenting the ethical dilemma Faced In college. Specifically this paper talks about an ethical issue I faced as a college student, and refer these ethical theories. I choose to no longer drink and drive in college.

Introduction

Teens often face ethical dilemmas when it comes to academic performance. Scholarships and college admissions often hinge on good grades. Some teens may reason that copying a term paper or peeking at another student's test is justified if it gets them the grades they need. Some may rationalize cheating or plagiarism because they feel it will help them achieve loftier goals in the future. Some teens may even find an opportunity to get a needed answer on an unplanned exam. Teens must think of the repercussions for their actions. What if they get caught cheating? How would others look at them if they knew they cheated? What if they received a scholarship over another student who earned his grades without cheating? If they cannot do their own work now, how can they be expected to do so at the college level?Lawrence Kohlberg was a developmental theorist of the mid-twentieth century who is best known for his specific and detailed theory of children's moral development. His work continues to be influential today and contemporary research has generally supported his theory.

Lawrence Kohlberg believed that the development of moral reasoning, like personality, intelligence, and social development, was driven by natural inborn forces and progressed through levels and stages. According to Kohlberg's theory, moral development proceeds in a linear, step-wise fashion; i.e., moral development proceeds gradually from one stage to the next, in a predictable, ordered sequence. Although Kohlberg recognized each child progressed through these stages at different rates, and acknowledged that some youth may never reach the highest stages, his theory does not account for regression back to former, previously mastered stages as do some other developmental theorists.

Kohlberg developed a six stage theory of moral development, and he grouped these six stages into three, higher-order levels of development: 1) the Pre-Conventional Level, 2) the Conventional Level, and 3) the Post-Conventional or Principled Level. Each level is then further sub-divided into two stages to ...