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Media Ethics ch. 1 Patterson, Wilkins and Painter, main points: -whats…

- - - - the belief that everyone's choice is equally valid
- - - - ethics begin when moral elements conflict
      - equally compelling or unattractive alternatives
      - choice between good and better, poor and worse
    - - i.e. the ten commandments or Buddha's eightfold path
      - right vs. wrong
- - - - consult your own conscious
    - - Seek expert advice for alternatives to the act creating an ethical problem
    - - conduct a public discussion with the parties involved in the dispute. those directly involved or those viewing a material
      - you can conduct an imaginary discussion if the parties involved cannot be present in time
      - must be done in advance to the event
- - - - know what you are doing
      - select the act for it's own sake- to flourish
      - the act itself must spring from a firm and unchanging character
    - - select heroes carefully
      - don't copy everything someone else would do
    - - cowardess courage foolhardiness shamelessness modesty bashfullness stinginess generosity wastefulness
      - the middle is the golden mean of virtues
  - - - an individual should act as if the choices one makes for oneself could become universal law
      - Treat each individual as an end and never as a means
    - - he believed that people with a bad character could still make moral decisions
    - - strict duties (negative)
        
        not to lie, not to kill ect.
      - meritorious duties (positive)
        
        aid others, develop one's talents, show gratitude
  - - - not mechanical like a math equation
    - - post enlightenment after the 1770s
      - the first time someone acknowledged that the fate of society is an ethical issue
    - - a valuational hedonist
        
        pleasure over pain=morality
    - - complicated when an action makes some ppl happy and some ppl unhappy
      - quantity and quality of happiness are equal
    - - social selfishness
      - can make ethics seem empirical or objective
      - it is difficult to accurately anticipate all the consequences of an action
      - can't actually calculate the good
      - people tend to rely on it along leading to ethical gridlock
      - may lead to short term benefits if done sloppily
  - - - fidelity
      - reparation
      - gratitude
      - justice
      - beneficence
      - self-improvement
      - not injuring others
      - not directly listed
        
        veracity
        
        nurture
    - - balancing competing roles
    - - prima facie duties
        
        seem to be right because of the nature of the act
      - duty proper
        
        most important given specific circumstances
      - must consider morally relevant differences to determine your duty proper
    - - explains why we feel so uneasy about breaking a relatively small promise
    - - prima facie duties are supreme in this case
  - - - doesn't trample the individual tho
    - - environment
      - business
      - politics
    - - we are born into our community = central to our humanity
    - - but in journalism it would look like constantly evaluating societal values and doing things to help the community, and the communities identity
- - - - but science evolves as new theories come about