DISCRIMINATION
AN ETHICAL PROBLEM
Discrimination
– from the latin “discrimen”, which means
TO SEPARATE.
Why is it an ethical problem?
Discrimination is traditionally understood as
the impossibility to exert human rights in some sectors of our society due to
race, sex, disability, religion, politics, age nationality, etc. People who
discriminate have a distorted vision of humans. They think they are above those
groups of people who don’t fit the standard of our society.
People live together in society but those who
discriminate put our coexistence at risk because they reject members of the
community for the sake of being different from the standard. It implies
learning to distinguish between the good and the bad.
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Valuing
diversity means treating people equally while incorporating their diverse
ideas.
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Discrimination
means treating people unequally because they are, or appear to be, different.
As we said in the first term, Ethics deals with the
issue of the GOOD. The question here is:
what is the GOOD? What is meant by the GOOD? The answer is
needed so that humans will know how to live a GOOD life. It is reflection about the nature of the good life, of right
action, of duty and obligation. That’s why discrimination is an ethical issue.
WATCH THIS VIDEO AND ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:
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What kind of
discrimination is the speaker talking about?
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Why didn’t the
speaker understand his father reaction when playing with water guns?
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Why does he
understand his father today?
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Are black people socially accepted in USA?
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Are rich black
people socially accepted in USA? Give reasons.
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