Case Study:
A fresh engineering graduate gets a job in a prestigious chemical industry. She likes the work. The salary is also good. However, after a few months she accidentally discovers that a highly toxic waste is being secretly discharged into a river nearby. This is causing health problems to the villagers downstream who depend on the river for their water needs. She is perturbed and mentions her concern to her colleagues who have been with the company for longer periods.
They advise her to keep quite as anyone who mentions the topic is summarily dismissed. She cannot risk losing her job as she is the sole bread-winner for her family and has to support her ailing parents and siblings. At first, she thinks that if her seniors are keeping quiet, why she should stick out her neck. But her conscience pricks her to do something to save the river and the people who depend upon it. At heart she feels that the advice of silence given by her friends is not correct though she cannot give reasons for it. She thinks you are a wise person and seeks your advice.
What arguments can you advance to show her that keeping quiet is not morally right? (8 Marks)
What course of action would you advise her to adopt and why? (7 Marks)
Our attitudes towards life, work, other people and society are generally shaped unconsciously by the family and the social surroundings in which we grow up. Some of these unconsciously acquired attitudes and values are often undesirable in the citizens of a modern democratic and egalitarian society.
Discuss such undesirable values that are prevalent and how such undesirable attitudes can be changed (5 Marks)
In the present times, when unethical environment is quite prevalent, individual attempts to stick to ethical principles may cause a lot of problems in one's career. It may also cause hardship to the family members as well as risk to one's life.
Critically analyse the above viewpoints (5 Marks)
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1) After being a whistle blower/ revealing about the secretly waste being discharged in the water, she can still find a proper job to support her family but now if she keeps quiet then a lot of people will be affected not just her and it will cause alot of damage which she will be held responsible for as well in the future. Her selfishness in this matter can be seen which is totally morally and ethically wrong.
2) Sending a annonymous mail to one of the officers who keeps a check with the industrial work or any social worker will be able to help her keep her identity hidden as well as get the problem solved.
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