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Assessment Task # 2 Chapter 7: Ethics and Culture

The document discusses how culture can narrow or widen ethical reasoning and how culture provides fundamental norms for practices and decision making in communities. It also discusses how issues like social media and same-sex marriage involve substantial cultural and ethical elements that deserve thorough discussion to understand different perspectives.

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Assessment Task # 2 Chapter 7: Ethics and Culture

The document discusses how culture can narrow or widen ethical reasoning and how culture provides fundamental norms for practices and decision making in communities. It also discusses how issues like social media and same-sex marriage involve substantial cultural and ethical elements that deserve thorough discussion to understand different perspectives.

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Name: Jay Ann A.

Rodrigo Date: April 21, 2020


Year & Section: BSICT - 3 Term: 2nd Sem., 2020-2021
Subject: Professional Ethics Prof.: Dr. Nikkithea L. Beduya
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ASSESSMENT TASK # 2
Chapter 7: ETHICS AND CULTURE

Answer the following questions concisely.

1. What is culture? How does culture narrow or widen a person’s ethical reasoning?

Culture is what gives a particular community it's unity and identity. It


encompasses way of life, practises, worldviews, religious rites, festivals, belief
systems, as well as oral and written literature's.
Culture can narrow or widen a person's ethical reasoning maybe by finding a
close link between ethics and culture especially among traditional activities. The
extreme scenario of this is when one considers all cultures equal and insulated
from any form of challenge or correction from others.

2. What makes culture a fundamental norm of ethical reasoning?

If culture, therefore, is the sole norm for determining what is and what is not
to be done, it will difficult to resolve moral delimmas as there would always be
questions as to which culture should prevail in deciding vital moral questions.
Culture provides fundamental norms for the practices and decision-making
processes of the members of the traditional communities just as ethics serves as
a concrete manifestation of cultural peculiarities.

3. Besides same-sex marriage, what are the other culturally-charged ethical issues
in our society today? Why do issues deserve a substantial and thorough
discussion?

Social Media. Through social media, self-expression and interpersonal


communication have become more convenient and more creative. However, it is
also the environment where harmful activities can be done such as cyberbullying,
scam and pornography.
Issues deserve a substantial and thorough discussion in order to
understand, to clarify, and to reach a decision.

4. Could you name a community or social group where culture and ethics are
closely linked?
Practice of bodong in the Cordillera region. Bodong refers to the
peacemaking system adopted by rival indigenous communities in the Cordillera
to prevent the escalation of hostilities between them. The fact that bodong is
practiced by the vary communities in conflict with each other. Rather than
focusing on what divides them, these indigenous groups choose build on their
commodities as a people. Besides the enhancement of their cultural heritage,
bodong also induces the further improvement of their judicial and peacemaking
systems particularly at the local level.

5. What is your take on the issue of same-sex marriage? What are the cultural and
ethical elements involved in your position?

Same-sex marriage. The main claim in favour of changing the law in this
way is that the current law unfairly singles out people who experience same-sex
attraction not allowing them to have the same status as people who are married.
It is important to note that the federal law in Australia has already been changed
to give same-sex partners the same legal rights as those who are married and in
an increasing number of states to register their unions. The remaining issue
therefore is the definition of marriage.
Changing the law so that marriage includes same-sex unions would be a
change to what marriage means. Currently marriage involves a comprehensive
union between a man and a woman, and norms of permanence and exclusivity.
Marriage has a place in the law because a relationship between a man and a
woman is the kind of relationship that may produce children. Marriage is linked to
children, for the sake of children, protecting their identity and their nurture by a
mother and a father.

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