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Hamad Aldarweesh

Rhonne Goodman

Critical Thinking 116

April 10, 2014

Ethics and The Personal Ladder.

Ethics plays a huge role in our culture and society. It influences our behavior. We will limit Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Indent

ourselves in daily life by doing or not doing things because of ethics. Ethics keeps humanity at large in check. In the individual’s path to success towards goals in life, we sometimes have to bypass these ethics in order to move forward. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Thesis statement?

We argue that we are trying desperately to move on up by bending the rules, but we are not cheating. Is cheating becoming so commonplace these days that this line has been blurred? Have we already created the generation that accepts cheating as a career tool, or have they been here already? By the way, when as the last time you paid for an mp3? Hackers are everywhere. Ethics don’t apply to me when I would have to pay otherwise. Ethics is basically down the drain. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: indent Comment by Rhonne Goodman: spelling Comment by Rhonne Goodman: unclear Comment by Rhonne Goodman: are

When is it ok to cheat? What is cheating anyways? I suppose the thirst the human has for success will fuel his steady climb to the top of the chain. What’s going to stop him? What’s going to not stop him? There are many questions. Speaking in very basic terms, ethics plays a couple of different roles in different situations. My aim to explore these different situations and also arrive at conclusions via the assigned texts. Personal research is included as well. How do ethics affect the decisions that are crucial to making it in life? It may dependent on the individual’s belief systems and his definition of “success”. Ethics can help you achieve your goals; it can also do the opposite. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: indent Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Don’t announce, just do it Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Why are you telling the reader the assignment? Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Missing word Comment by Rhonne Goodman: they

In the text “Cheating: It’s All-American – and It’s Great!” Joel Stein shines the light on his own amusing perspectives on what steroid use means for the athlete and also what the American people want to watch nowadays. He discusses the attitude of the collective in support of athletes in their decisions to take performance enhancing drugs like steroids.

“We are disgusted by David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez for taking steroids – even though steroids made Boston relevant for the first time in 200 years”. I would agree to this, and I am sure there are many out there who would agree with this statement. People nowadays care more about seeing somebody hit that baseball out of that stadium than question why he is capable of it in the first place. “We need to stop pretending we are honest and instead be honest about cheating. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: citation? Comment by Rhonne Goodman: End of quote, citation?

Stein also suggests that we relook at how steroid use objections are not too different from those objections made against wearing makeup or dying one's hair. The Washington Times article “Baseball’s power and its drugs” by Howard Bryant discusses other ways in which ethics are influencing the sport of baseball in America. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Underline the title

The current baseball scene is like nothing America had ever dreamed. Baseball is hitting hard in America, and sales of tickets and merchandising are very strong. The competition is strong as well, with a generation of steroid tainted athletes in the daily lineup hitting crazy balls out of shows at ballparks around America. The power struggles in-between the owners and markets are real.

What I concluded was that the lines in ethics for what’s right or wrong have been blurred. Steroids are being used at alarming rates in professional sports, and they are selling out stadiums and breaking records in the process. “Steroid use in baseball has been an open secret at least since the 1990s while almost everyone who could or should have done something about it looked the other way.” But these problems of steroid use are not just a problem in baseball but in almost every single sport. Our number one heroes are disappointing us, lying to us back to back. Everybody knows what’s going on it’s, definitely no secret. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Integrate the quote and cite. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Comma here

The New York Times article “Finding That Today’s Students Are Bright, Eager and willing to Cheat” has been one of my favorite text of this course. A summary of an upcoming young scientist’s confession to bending the rules in order to win a completion that put her in good standings. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: Comment by Rhonne Goodman: underline Comment by Rhonne Goodman: plural

It speaks to the morale of an upcoming student body who is very willing to cheat. The general point stressed in this document is that the ethical values of our youth have indeed been stained. Cheating is, quite simply put, one hundred percent acceptable today. What happened to stating the truth and nothing but the truth? It simply doesn’t happen anymore.

Technology can worsen this situation too. Not only will our children grow up dishonest people, they might not even know they are doing something bad. I know it’s hard to preserve our ethical integrity. Sometimes we might look at something somebody did wrong and be angry with the situation, but also not fully understand it.

One example of this is the Colombian and Mexican drug trade. The way in which the drug trade works, poor people are given well-paying jobs which otherwise would not be available. They would suffer poverty if it were not for their salaries from guerilla and Colombian paramilitary groups. Similarly we have to be conscious of the fact that Poor Mexican farmers also put food on their plate and support their families with money made from the drug trade. Can you really be angry with them for being part of it? There are no better options for them.I am conclusive that ethics plays a crucial role in our success in the world. Comment by Rhonne Goodman: This is not a conclusion andit does not fit well.

Hamad,

You have a really strong voice. But you have to learn how to correctly cite or your paper will appear to be plagiarized. Where is your Works Cited page? If you need to, the Writing Center can help.

RG