What is an Ethical Issue?
An ethical issue is a problem or situation that requires a person to choose between two options, where both options are morally wrong. Ethical issues can be divided into three categories: personal, professional, and social. Examples of personal ethical issues include whether or not to take your spouse’s last name after marriage and how much money you want to inherit from your parents when they die. Professional ethics refer to the right thing for a particular profession such as teaching, accounting, law enforcement, etc. For example, what constitutes a conflict of interest in medicine? Social ethics have to do with the values and beliefs within society.
Ethical Issues
Ethical issues are concerned with what is right and wrong, good and bad and how we use that information to decide our actions in the real world. What happens when you want something, but it’s not right? How do you choose between right and wrong at that moment? It can be tough, especially if the decision is something big or important like choosing whether or not to break up with your partner of 10 years, take a job that requires you to relocate across the country, or lie about something so big that no one would ever trust you again.