Ethical Lens Inventory Argumentative

The Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI) revealed my preferred lens as Rights/Responsibilities and Results Lens. Right/Responsibility Lens determines an equal balance use of reasoning skills and intuitions before making valuable decisions or judgments to best serve the people. The lens states that I prioritize and protect individual rights to ensure that I treat every one with respect, justice, and fairness. This results in looking ahead of the situation and considering the consequences that will surface before coming to a conclusion. Results Lens implies the use of my intuition and examining thoroughly before reaching my decisions. Additionally, I tend to think of others values and base my results not only on my intuition but also equality.

My Blind spot is the belief of focusing on the outcome or decision but not realizing the cause of unintentionally harming others. Despite my good motives to achieve a positive outcome, I trust the process too much and depend on people to take responsibility for themself. My strength lies within how I make rational ethical choices and to acknowledge the wellbeing of others by making sure every one treats each other equally. My weakness includes caring for people before following my intuition and making ethical decisions. For example, I worry more about people’s problems than they are worried about it themselves as well as overanalyzing their situation to make it better for them. Furthermore, I expect people to value their decisions and look at their standpoints like the way I view it. It seems that I tend to have high expectations on people without reason. Core values are Autonomy and Rationality/Sensibility, which means respecting and honoring individual rights as well as the whole community treated with justice and fairness. However, in righteous acts and decisions faced I do not generalize situations despite universal principles but acting to the specific situation while searching for the best solution to resolve the issue. Resultant behavior is fulfilling duties while creating the greatest good. I believe ethical people should take responsibility for their actions while making decisions or accomplishing tasks.

Using my personal ethics to determine a course of action would be to follow my intuition to reach my decision and goals and not necessarily focus on others wellbeing. It may be wise to remember that it is always good to help others, but within reason. I need to be more aware of people taking ethical responsibility for their actions rather than trying to make the best decision for them, despite my compassion for others.

In conclusion, through this Ethics Lens Inventory test I thoroughly examined my perspective view and the way I respond to others. The outcome of this evaluation has allowed me to realize the ethical choices I make throughout my daily life. I agree that the result truly defines my character and enlightens me to focus more on my weaknesses to become a better person.

References

Ethics game. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.ethicsgame.com/Exec/Eli/EthicalLensResults.aspx?R=1