I spoke a bit about personal responsibility recently and what I feel it means to me, but there other types of responsibility also. One type is "ethical responsibility", and how the possession of knowledge affects us as individuals. The possession of knowledge does carry an ethical responsibility because there are certain kinds of knowledge that impose an obligation or a challenge on the person who carries that knowledge. Examples of this are when one discovers a murder scene, a robbery or any other situation of that sort. This is due to the fact that a person must choose between revealing the information, and potentially harming him/herself; or keeping it instead of potentially helping someone else. There is a conflict of interest in any of these situations. The ethical responsibility consists in the decision the person must make, being each person’s moral values and sense of what is right, what finally inclines this decision. Anyone with possession of knowledge is forced to weight the possible consequences of their actions, whether this be withholding or releasing that information. Many times people weight an action depending on the amount of people that consequences will affect. Most will consider the ethical implications of an action to a greater degree when there is large number of people involved. But one must wonder “why?” How come the number of people involved in a certain situation affect the perception of an individual on that specific case scenario. And how, that certain individual’s ethical and moral choices, suffer from that specific amount of people ?? This is one thing I treasure about being awake, and having my self surrounded by those who are awakened. We share the knowledge we have with others, alone or as a group, without fear of repercussion.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:45:57 +0000