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According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – “Situation Ethics is a Christian ethical theory that was principally developed in the 1960s by the Episcopal priest Joseph Fletcher. It basically states that sometimes other moral principles can be cast aside in certain situations if love is best served; as Paul Tillich once put it: 'Love is the ultimate law’.”
How have we applied this theory on Indian Reservations? Here are just a few examples:
Is it okay to cast aside moral principal and use your authority as a board member to create a job for a sibling who just graduated from college because you love him/her?
Is it okay to cast aside moral principal and use your authority as program manager, director, or CEO to hire an unusual high number of your relatives in key administrative position because you love them?
Here is what I think situation ethics and it application on our reservation; it has made the problem with addressing unethical behavior much to complicated. I don't think it is complicated at all. Most of the ethical violation that occurs on Indian reservations a child in kinder garden will know is wrong.
What do you think?
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People who conduct themselves unethetically will jusify their reason by any means necessary. They will blame it on love for someone or something, they will blame dumb and say they didn't know they couldn't do that. The bottom line is they need to have more strict guidelines and penalties. Just as children have these consequences, so should those Adults who should know from right or wrong and still commit faults!
Last edited by Willie (2007-09-11 23:54:47)
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