Don't see, don't tell, and don’t hear.
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triple monkeysss |
Nowadays, when we saw any things wrong, or
anything is not fair for other people, we will only do the action--doesn't see,
don't tell and don't hear. From the concept of “Everybody does it”, every
single people parties this, then I should do it also. It is normal to do these
things in our life, like somehow, somewhere, we always see some people cheating
or acting unethically. But most of the time, we will pretend have not seen it
because of don't want to get trouble from the case. Why people using these excuses
to avoid forget trouble in our life? Is that we all selfish, have we ever think
of the people that will get hurt from the unethical participation?
That day, it was very early morning; I was
sit inside the car for going school. I saw guy that snatching the woman's hand
bag. Nearby was some shop, there aren't not people to stop it, but most of the
people are in the car jam, who will actually help?
Helping the neighbors in the Malay Kampung
are easily to see, but have you seen the people nowadays helping the neighbors
in the condominium, or the residential area? I even don't know who is my condo neighbors,
is a he or her, and is old or young. The interaction of the people are much lesser
than old days, because of the technology, the people often communicate via
technology. Even siblings, helping and gathering are not often. How about the
community?
The unethical behavior is start from the
lack of caring our community and families. The lesser caring about the
community, the people will have the unethical behavior that they don't want to
think of other feeling. If they think "if I do so, how the people
react", "if the victim were I, what I were feel." These thought
will prevent the people acting unethically, because they have try to stand in
others people shoes to think about their feeling. Everyone doesn’t like to be
cheated, but everyone does cheat to people. This theory applies to the
unethical behavior also. In the business environment, if the unethical producer
think before producing the unethical product such as the hair-soy-souse, the
reused oil. These foods are for people to eat, the producer might also eat the
same things into their stomach. If they have ever thought what and how if
they are the victim, they may think twice to do the unethical business.
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the hardest decision that i have made is to choose what to eat for dinner!!! |
We will forget what we want to choose, the
best choice to us, or the right things to us?
In our life, these choices are not easy to
make decision because the ethical choices are lesser benefit for us and it is
not easy to do it. The Coercion Myth: “I have no choice!” the situation only
allowed to do this, BUT THERE IS ALWAYS BEING A BETTER CHOICE THAT YOU
HAVE MADE!!!
Consequentialism or “It Worked Out for the
Best”, sometimes, the unethical behavior are excused as the best choice that we
can made. BUT, IT IS REALLY THE ONLY AND ONE CHOICE WE CAN MAKE? I have seen
some times in the hall, somebody asking the answer from the invigilator, but
the invigilator actually answers his question because he has a nice face. I
have seen someone bringing the note inside to the hall, and go toilet often.
Why the invigilator not stopping the convocation?
Actually, that time, someone rise up his
hand and stop the conversation of the inveigler and the people. The Futility
Illusion: “If I don’t do it, somebody else will.” Here comes another situation
for us, if we don’t voice out the mistake, who will voice the mistake to the
public? Many of us have this though that it is not my responsibility to find
out the mistake and tell others. Hamm’s Excuse: “It wasn't my fault.” It is not
my fault to not telling out the unethical behavior that acts by the
people.
The Perfection Diversion: “Nobody’s
Perfect!” or “Everybody makes mistakes!” So we should keep quiet that let the
unethical behavior continue and let them go with the wind? Of course every
people make mistake. BUT THE MISTAKE CAN GO VERY BIG IF YOU NOT VOICE IT OUT!!!
The Comparative Virtue Excuse: “There are worse things.” The unethical behaviors
I have made are not cause damage of the people, so is that the unethical behavior
is ethical then?
The Tortoise’s Pass: “Better late than
never”. We can voice the unethical behavior out after we get the bonus, or
after retired. The tough of “better late than never” make a very serious
mistake that help the unethical behavior go along, some people will assume that
their unethical behavior that since ethical that no people said it is
unethical.