Week 4 - Do Won

Do Won Lee
Section 2
Week 4

Two of this week's readings by doctor Amy Block Joy, "Whistleblower" and "Ethics and 'Breaking Bad': Developing and practicing ethical skills, describe and reflect what she had to face after reporting a crime committed by her colleague. In "Whistleblower" we read of her first hand experiences in an "interview" with the lieutenant detective of the UC Davis Police. He questioned not so much what happened, but why Joy happened to report it to her superior. Questioning the morals and ethics of her thought process. In the latter piece by Joy, she writes about ethics and morality she created in a classroom environment. Using first hand experience she questions the class about their reasons for doing such actions. With some aspects of the class being taken from the television show, "Breaking Bad". The class is faced with observing a crime happen right in front of them from a fellow worker of a lab stealing equipment. The class takes different things into consideration when given options of actions to choose from.
The conflicts from ethics and morality can be tied to what the consequences may be from reporting crimes due to corporatization of universities. Reporting crimes in a setting where universities are there to do research and benefit society can be different from reporting crimes where universities are corporatized and are there mainly to create money.
It is known that universities are becoming more integrated with corporations as a means to create funding. But money can also blind us from seeing the right thing. As a result, ethics and morality can be obscured when given the possibility of drawing in more money. I think that is happening in Joy's papers and why she is being questioned because what she reported can't be revealed to the public or else the university may suffer a loss of funding from a source. Universities need money not just for their own interests and research, but also for students as well. This may make universities desperate and commit to actions that people may disapprove.
My questions would be, are there other materialistic objects that not just universities, but also people, can succumb to that isn't money and have their moral compass realigned?

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