By ecuboy - 26/10/2010 16:49 - United States
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To answer some questions: I attend a public university (ECU), and the professor teaches closed-minded ethics. If you take anybody's cultural background or own personal beliefs into consideration when determining if what they did was morally right or wrong than you are wrong. There are no gray areas and there are no extenuating circumstances to change that in his mind.
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People on all sides are prone to "my morals are better than yours." Don't just blame liberals while both sides are busy legislating their beliefs into law.
finally someone says something with sense.
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Perhaps he thinks your moral values are messed up because you're screwing his wife?
I got the same. They said put your opinion, I did and got a D :(
my sister goes to ecu. She hates most of her teachers..for reasons like that. sucksss.
Since morals and ethics are two different things, your professor ought to get a giant "F" for his reasoning on grading...
But differing morals may lead to some unethical practices. If OP argued strongly for eugenics, it could easily degrade into sub-quality treatment for 'inferior' patients.
It's a college paper. Within the brief, the student can argue for whatever they want, as long as they back that argument up.
In most subjects that should be correct, zebidee. My point is that what the professor referred to as a lack of morals could actually be an indication that he does not know the material. For instance, if OP was taught that refusing to provide medical treatment based on the patient's age, race, lifestyle, etc. is unethical but OP wrote a paper on why all homosexuals deserve AIDS or something, that would demonstrate he had not grasped the concept of medical ethics due to what might be considered low morals. It wouldn't matter what sort of supporting materials he had if his original statement was wrong. It was certainly the same type of thing in legal ethics and business ethics. I don't know what type of ethics class it was or what OP's argument it was; I'm just saying it may not be so clear-cut that OP is being victimised.
#92/ImaginaryFoe - you make a good point. Fair enough.
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that's illegal. sue his ass.
So many smart students believe that their points of view and opinions have been sequestered by their professors with the "You have every right to your opinion, just not in my class" attitude. Understand, that it really is the prof's class, not yours. You can successful challenge 'orthodox thought', provided you are politically correct about it. Attempts to prove the teacher wrong generally lead to lessons in public humility, a dish served exclusively to the student. My advice: sellect your fights carefully. If the issue is very important to you, get your degree and designatation that says you, too, are an expert. Then fight your fight. If it no longer matters at this point, then it never did. So why jeopardize your future over arbitrary BS?
No wayyy
Yep, sounds just like ECU. They need to hire better professors who don't do this kind of crap. I had one professor fail the whole class twice on a paper assignment. We didn't do it to her standards.
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that us why ethic classes are a joke.
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wow what a bitch. that is completely wrong and you should definitely report it! hopefully the problem can be resolved and u can either retake it or have it graded more fairly... she could get fired for that =
I completely agree that your professor is messed up. The same thing happened to me in my religion class. I told my teacher that I did not believe anything we were learning, and she gave me a F on the next test.