An ethical dilemma is a complex situation that often involves an apparent mental conflict between critical personal values, in which to obey one would tarnish another.
Possible scenario:
You’re traveling internationally, far removed from your daily routine and you’re having dinner with a colleague.
Your dinner companion is a pessimist by nature, and he’s speaking of ending his life because it is so hard.
You’ve known this person for 15 years, and worked with him for a decade.
You share similar interests and spiritual beliefs.
He trusts you enough to share his intimate feelings.
Do you break his trust?
Could it save his life?
Is he over-reacting and is this conversation simply a dramatic but not serious moment?
If you reveal this conversation with your boss, will it jeopardize his employment?
If he lost his job, he might very well have nothing left to live for.
But if you don’t say anything and misread this, and he takes his life, will you ever be able to live with yourself?
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i asked the 90-year old, like i always do when we visit, “Are you afraid?”
Carrying a sense of obligation to help him articulate that he’s ok with his situation, even as it deteriorates.
Maybe i’ve tried long enough and hard enough.
Maybe next visit i don’t even mention it or concern myself with it.
It’s worth a try.
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This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.
On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
Every dang day i write five differently-themed blog posts.
The unanswered question is, “Why?”
Why start?
Why continue?
Every single day since April Fools Day 2009.
Seven-plus years.
Thirteen thousand plus blog posts.
No end in sight.
Impossible is nothing.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.