Objectivism And Ethical Frameworks

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I personally believe this action to be unethical. It is down-playing the true significance of the crimes that are being committed. It is a means of taking a short cut in order to deal with an issue. It is our duty as officers to come up with legitimate strategies to help with the crime problem. As a police officer and within the police officer precinct, it is our duty to thoroughly do our jobs and record the true nature of the crimes. If the statistics of the crimes do not accurately measure where it is that we need to be putting our resources, it would be a great disservice to these communities. While I personally believe that this is an unethical action to be taken, I would say that amongst most of the ethical frameworks, this is also unethically permissible, except for one which I will describe in the last paragraph. I don't think that lying is an acceptable ethical decision to be making within a business, and while obtaining a career as a public service servant or law enforcement agent. …show more content…

I believe that with this framework, it would be not to support the decision to label car prowling as something else. Objectivism places a lot of value on one's own interests and hard work. Objectivism states that the backbone of objectivism is productive work in order to reshape the world to mirror the image of one's values. I believe that within this framework, it would promote the idea that short cuts are unacceptable. That choosing to move forward with the hard work of finding another solution to the issue, is primarily the decision that should be made in this situation. Working in one's positive and ethical self-interest would promote a healthy economy and example of our law

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