My Ethical Dilemma

Everyone is faced with ethical dilemmas every day; some of them are small and seemingly insignificant while others have serious ramifications for us depending on what we decide to do. For me I was recently faced with the ethical dilemma of deciding whether to make up an ethical dilemma to blog about or if, through concerted effort, I would search the recesses of my brain to find a real time I was faced with an ethical dilemma worthy of being written about.

If I was to just make up an event, no one else would be the wiser. There is no way that anyone in my class or anyone reading my blog would be able to know if the event really did or did not happen. Even if they did have an inkling that the story was too elaborate or too perfect they would have no reason to question it. They would gain nothing by questioning it and everyone else in the class would see their claim about my dilemma as preposterous and pompous. I would get away with lying.

I however would know the truth; I would know that what I had told was a lie and if I was complimented on how I handled the situation it would be a shallow and hollow victory. Instead I decided to do the right thing and relay a real life ethical dilemma; deciding on an ethical dilemma to share with the class through my blog. It may not be a serious event and it may seem insignificant but it is the kind of ethical dilemmas that we all deal with everyday.