The Parable Of The Sadhu By Bowen H. Mccoy

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The Parable of the Sadhu is a real life, true story about the author, told by the author, Bowen H. McCoy. McCoy and a group of his international buds are hiking through Nepal, trying to reach the peak. Not an ordinary group of men, but a group of men with several cultural backgrounds. While they’re hiking up this mountain, on a strenuous adventure, they run into a Sadhu, an almost naked, holy, Indian man. He wasn’t an ordinary man that looked like he was living good. By the looks of it, the sadhu was near death. He was suffering from exhaustion and hypothermia. These group of individuals wrapped warm clothing on him, so he wouldn’t get cold, also gave him food, so he wouldn’t die. These individuals in the group were aware that this Indian man …show more content…

But it couldn’t come to a compromise. A few individuals from the group split apart from the rest of the group to take the sadhu back down to a village far a village far down. Not after too long, they left the man without taking him to the village, and continued their trip going upward. No one from there on knew of what had happened to the sadhu. Whose responsibility was it to take care of the man and make sure he survives? The reason why McCoy wrote this article was to persuade readers to do the morally right things, keeping you’re individual moral ethics, even if you’re in a messed up scenario. Make sure to take care of a man when he’s dying. Cognitive Dissonance, which is, “the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change”, is one discomfort that can mess an entire company. Cognitive dissonance is most likely to occur when this unmusical stress or discomfort is known to everyone. Cognitive dissonance is pretty much having stress and having the internal discomfort because of one having conflicting beliefs. When one thinks about it, they’ll try to stop thinking about it so they don’t get emotionally …show more content…

In the business field, our ethical responsibilities are to make sure that our behaviors don't cause unjustified harm, suffering, waste or destruction to us, and the world around us. Same concept in all other aspects. Positive economic activity is one responsibility we all have in society at large because it creates wealth and paths for others to live a better quality life and take that step away from

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