High School Ethics
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Do you tend to act in the most ethical of manners? Perhaps your sense of the moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour is somewhat skewed? Let’s take a look at the following quiz on ethics using high school as an example – picture yourself back in school and imagine yourself in the following scenarios and let us know how you would act. Let’s find out how ethical you are!
- 1.Before lunch, you find $20 in the restroom. What do you do?
- A.
Quickly pick up the $20 before anyone else comes in and sees it.
- B.
Use it to buy your lunch for the day.
- C.
Turn it into the office.
- D.
Go into the lunchroom and ask if anyone has lost a $20.
- 2.You are working in the school store and a student wishes to purchase a sweatshirt, but only has $10. The price of the sweatshirt is $15. What would you do?
- A.
Since he/she is a friend, you tell them they can have the sweatshirt for $10.
- B.
You notice that you have a bunch of sweatshirts left, so decide to just give them the sweatshirt.
- C.
You check with the store supervisor to see if you can discount the sweatshirt.
- D.
You spill something on one of the sweatshirt and tell them it has now been discounted to $10.
- 3.You are getting ready to take a test, but you have had to watch your siblings for the past two days and have not had any time to prepare. Your best friend, Alex, is also in the class with you and has offered to help you on the test. Nobody would see if you decided to take Alex up on the offer to help? What woud you do?
- A.
After attempting the test, there are only two answer that you do not know, so you let Alex help you.
- B.
Since nobody will know, and you don't want to have a bad grade, you let Alex help you on the test.
- C.
You go ahead and take the test and accept whatever grade you get.
- D.
You speak with your teacher and explain the situation. If they then tell you that you have to take the test anyway, you figure they don't care about your situation and you decide to take Alex up on the offer.
- 4.Sam has left his cell phone on the desk and gone to his next class. You have been trying to get online to see the score of a national baseball game and you notice that his phone has internet access. What would you do?
- A.
You get online and check the game score.
- B.
You turn the phone into your teacher or give it directly back to Sam without accessing the internet or making any calls.
- C.
You not only check the game, but send a text to Alex about the score.
- D.
You put the phone in your pocket and thank your lucky stars that you won't have to buy a new one to replace the one you ran over with your car this morning.
- 5.You have a "friend" who has just crossed the line by starting to date someone you are interested in. Another friend suggests that it would be a great idea to post something on Facebook about your previous "friend." What do you do?
- A.
Both of you come up with some really creative stories that you decide to share on Facebook.
- B.
You decide to confront your friend about their action, and if you don't like their answers you can always post those pictures from 2nd grade.
- C.
You laugh, but tell your other friend that it wouldn't be a good idea to cause deliberate hurt.
- 6.Your friend just bought a new CD that you really like. He/she said they don't care if you copy it onto your computer.
- A.
Since they paid for the CD this is legal to do.
- B.
You should go and buy your own copy of the CD.
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