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Ethical Decision Making

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The good qualities of the teacher produce good advise Advocating for better decision making, using ethics as a center! In my just previous life, I was Tibetan, back in the time of terrible danger. Tibetans went to other countries asking for help because a terrible catastrophe was imminent, but no one, no one helped us. Our freedom was being taken away and others said, “Your agenda is a non-agenda.” They said that their current interests and agenda did not mesh with our wishes, therefore they would not help. On the other hand, how should we decide to help, (without political influence) when the freedom of others is truly in need? How many can we afford to hurt in order to ensure the freedom of others that we perceive to be in danger? From an ethical point of view, an important part of a high quality decision-making process, whose agenda should we attack first? The one who appears to be the aggressor, or the agenda of those who appear to be victims? For example, a dysfun...