Mark and Jeff and You An ethical dilemma for ethical conflict) is defined by your text on page 144 as "...a situation that forces a decision that involves breaking some ethical norm or contradicting some ethical value..." It may also be defined as a circumstance where 2 ethical principles appear to oppose each other, and any decision one could make would seem to violate either one of the principles. Read the following scenario and answer the subsequent questions on this paper. When you are finished, submit it as instructed through Blackboard. Mark is a public health education/promotion student who has taken a job with the state to monitor the behavior of one 18- year-old male named Jeff, who has a history of violence. Jeffis not in prison only because he had committed his crimes as a juvenile delinquent. The state, knowing he has violent tendencies, is really in a quandary about what to do with him, so they hired one person to be a kind of big brother guard for Jeff while Jeff' is living in a non-secure facility. Jeff is not permitted to go anywhere without professional accompaniment. Mark takes him to the movies, plays pick-up baseball with him, counsels him, visits Jeff's family with Jeff and for 15 to 20 hours per week, Mark is Jeff's hired companion." At first Mark drives Jeff to his psychiatrist appointments until the psychiatrist terminates therapy because she states she does not feel safe alone with Jeff. Mark has noticed troublesome behaviors in Jeff Jeff talks about his uncontrollable urges to commit violence, especially against girls and women; Jeff reacts inappropriately at horror movies. basically siding with and cheering on the killers. Jeff commits acts against younger children at baseball games at local fields like sliding into them on the base paths. Jeff has even threatened and tried to push Mark Mark notes all of this in his reports and tells his supervisors everything One day Mark quits his job for unrelated reasons. Jeff becomes agitated because Mark left him and threatens to kill Mark. Mark goes back to work for a few more weeks and then quits for good. A few weeks later, Mark finds out that Jeff has committed a horribly brutal murder against a 65-year-old woman when the facility let him out without supervision. Two years later after Jeff has been convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison, Mark is approached at his current job by an attomey for the state, who is about to go to trial on a civil case in 2 weeks because the family of the murdered woman is suing the State for damages. The attorney wants to know if Mark can provide any information that would help the state's case. Mark replies that he is the last person the state wants to talk to, that the facility managers knew that Jeff was dangerous and was not to be let out that Mark had written reports indicating that Jeff was very dangerous am knows would in like sliding into them on the base paths. Jeff has even threatened and tried to push Mark. Mark notes all of this in his reports and tells his supervisors everything, One day Mark quits his job for unrelated reasons. Jeff becomes agitated because Mark left him and threatens to kill Mark. Mark goes back to work for a few more wecks and then quits for good. A few weeks later, Mark finds out that Jeff has committed a horribly brutal murder against a 65-year-old woman when the facility let him out without supervision Two years later after Jeff has been convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison, Mark is approached at his current job by an attorney for the state, who is about to go to trial on a civil case in 2 weeks because the family of the murdered woman is suing the state for damages. The attorney wants to know if Mark can provide any information that would help the state's case. Mark replies that he is the last person the state wants to talk to, that the facility managers knew that Jeff was dangerous and was not to be let out that Mark had written reports indicating that Jeff was very dangerous and that everything that Mark knows would in fact help the murdered woman's family's case. The attorney leaves and Mark is left to consider what he should do if anything at all. The questions that follow are about what Mark should do after the state's attorney leaves his office: 1. In a few sentences, explain the ethical problem or conflict in the scenario above. Consider the list of 7 ethical issues on page 153 of your text. Do not write about all of the 7 issues but chose the one or ones that may be involved in the scenario. 2. In a few sentences, explain what a person who follows the deontological theory of ethics would do and why? 3. In a few sentences, explain what a person who follows the teleological theory of ethics would do and why? 4. Please explain in one paragraph of 100-200 words what you would decide to do and why you would make that decision even if your choice is to do nothing. Include your understanding of the possible consequences of your decision for Mark, the state, the woman's family, the legal system and anyone else. For your answer, consider the ethical decision-making model on pages 143 - 146 of your text: you do not have to write out the decision-making process. Just use the steps to help you think. 5. In your own words, why do we need a code of ethics? 2 of 2 pages Mark and Jeff and You An ethical dilemma for ethical conflict) is defined by your text on page 144 as "...a situation that forces a decision that involves breaking some ethical norm or contradicting some ethical value..." It may also be defined as a circumstance where 2 ethical principles appear to oppose each other, and any decision one could make would seem to violate either one of the principles. Read the following scenario and answer the subsequent questions on this paper. When you are finished, submit it as instructed through Blackboard. Mark is a public health education/promotion student who has taken a job with the state to monitor the behavior of one 18- year-old male named Jeff, who has a history of violence. Jeffis not in prison only because he had committed his crimes as a juvenile delinquent. The state, knowing he has violent tendencies, is really in a quandary about what to do with him, so they hired one person to be a kind of big brother guard for Jeff while Jeff' is living in a non-secure facility. Jeff is not permitted to go anywhere without professional accompaniment. Mark takes him to the movies, plays pick-up baseball with him, counsels him, visits Jeff's family with Jeff and for 15 to 20 hours per week, Mark is Jeff's hired companion." At first Mark drives Jeff to his psychiatrist appointments until the psychiatrist terminates therapy because she states she does not feel safe alone with Jeff. Mark has noticed troublesome behaviors in Jeff Jeff talks about his uncontrollable urges to commit violence, especially against girls and women; Jeff reacts inappropriately at horror movies. basically siding with and cheering on the killers. Jeff commits acts against younger children at baseball games at local fields like sliding into them on the base paths. Jeff has even threatened and tried to push Mark Mark notes all of this in his reports and tells his supervisors everything One day Mark quits his job for unrelated reasons. Jeff becomes agitated because Mark left him and threatens to kill Mark. Mark goes back to work for a few more weeks and then quits for good. A few weeks later, Mark finds out that Jeff has committed a horribly brutal murder against a 65-year-old woman when the facility let him out without supervision. Two years later after Jeff has been convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison, Mark is approached at his current job by an attomey for the state, who is about to go to trial on a civil case in 2 weeks because the family of the murdered woman is suing the State for damages. The attorney wants to know if Mark can provide any information that would help the state's case. Mark replies that he is the last person the state wants to talk to, that the facility managers knew that Jeff was dangerous and was not to be let out that Mark had written reports indicating that Jeff was very dangerous am knows would in like sliding into them on the base paths. Jeff has even threatened and tried to push Mark. Mark notes all of this in his reports and tells his supervisors everything, One day Mark quits his job for unrelated reasons. Jeff becomes agitated because Mark left him and threatens to kill Mark. Mark goes back to work for a few more wecks and then quits for good. A few weeks later, Mark finds out that Jeff has committed a horribly brutal murder against a 65-year-old woman when the facility let him out without supervision Two years later after Jeff has been convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison, Mark is approached at his current job by an attorney for the state, who is about to go to trial on a civil case in 2 weeks because the family of the murdered woman is suing the state for damages. The attorney wants to know if Mark can provide any information that would help the state's case. Mark replies that he is the last person the state wants to talk to, that the facility managers knew that Jeff was dangerous and was not to be let out that Mark had written reports indicating that Jeff was very dangerous and that everything that Mark knows would in fact help the murdered woman's family's case. The attorney leaves and Mark is left to consider what he should do if anything at all. The questions that follow are about what Mark should do after the state's attorney leaves his office: 1. In a few sentences, explain the ethical problem or conflict in the scenario above. Consider the list of 7 ethical issues on page 153 of your text. Do not write about all of the 7 issues but chose the one or ones that may be involved in the scenario. 2. In a few sentences, explain what a person who follows the deontological theory of ethics would do and why? 3. In a few sentences, explain what a person who follows the teleological theory of ethics would do and why? 4. Please explain in one paragraph of 100-200 words what you would decide to do and why you would make that decision even if your choice is to do nothing. Include your understanding of the possible consequences of your decision for Mark, the state, the woman's family, the legal system and anyone else. For your answer, consider the ethical decision-making model on pages 143 - 146 of your text: you do not have to write out the decision-making process. Just use the steps to help you think. 5. In your own words, why do we need a code of ethics? 2 of 2 pages