Talk:Ethical dilemma

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ethical dillemma in managerial decisions

Contents 1 What does this mean? 2 What paradox? 3 sysop/trolls paragraph removed 4 Division By Zero 5 Recurring Struggles 6 Some more examles please 7 Roe vs Wade Removed 8 Roles within structures

[edit] What does this mean?

"Design of a voting system, other electoral reform, a criminal justice system, or other high-stakes adversarial process for dispute resolution will almost always reflect the deep persistent struggles involved. However, no amount of good intent and hard work can undo a bad role structure:"

It seems to come from nowhere and mean nothing coherent with the preceding (or indeed following) text, though perhaps I just missed something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.235.74.134 (talk) 16:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What paradox?

I'm not a philosopher. Hell, I'm at tech school, the closest I'll come to logic is computer programming. The beginning of the article mentions a contrast involving "love your neighbor", but I just don't see the paradox. It can't be argued "Love thy neighbor for all eternity" because its inherent the loving human will die eventually. The paradox doesn't appear between loving your neighbor and self-defense because that assumes you can avoid death forever, which isn't possible.

I'm not sure if that makes sense outside of my head. Liastnir 03:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sysop/trolls paragraph removed

I removed the second paragraph in "Roles within structures" since it was confusing and references Wikipedia directly, and seems NPOOV. Can someone come up with a real-life example that those outside of the Wikipedia culture might understand?

[edit] Division By Zero

I removed this section as it was complete nonsense. Artificial intelligence cannot comprehend infinity?

If someone actually understands what it was trying to convey, could they please translate it into sane english and add it again?

It's pretty hard for me to imagine what division by zero has to do with ethics at all, but that is just me.

[edit] Recurring Struggles

This section is not clear and not related to ethical dilemmas.

[edit] Some more examles please

I hoped the article might list some classic examples, along the lines of "Sophie's Choice", family of four with a lifeboat for three, etc. I believe there are some ethical dilemas regularly used in military training and psychological research. If anyone is familiar with these a list would benefit the article greatly, I believe. I'm not really qualified to make such a list myself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.239.48.141 (talk) 04:35, 22 March 2007 (UTC). Update: Ah, I see that link to The Generalized Structure of Ethical Dilemmas provided at the end of the article leads to a page with lots of good examples.

[edit] Roe vs Wade Removed

I've removed the "see also:" link to Wikipedia's Roe vs Wade article since there appears to be no coherent link between the US Supreme Court case and the general question of what an ethical dilemma is. Furthermore, the entire Roe vs Wade article lacks any reference to either 'ethics' or 'dilemmas' and so the link seems superfluous.

If there's any counter-arguments, I'd be happy to hear them. Otherwise I feel the link is best left removed.

[edit] Roles within structures

This whole section appears to be bizarre and unsupported... if anyone agrees can they flag or remove it or something. Didn't want to delete the whole thing without getting a second opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.175.95.181 (talk) 17:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)