Personal_Ethical_Statement

My personal ethical statement According to the ethical inventory I fall under the rights and responsibility lens, it states that I use reasoning skills to determine my duties as well as the universal rules that each person should follow. My core values are autonomy and rationality over equality. I favor protecting the rights of individuals and am not swayed from believing that individuals should be able to do what they believe is right even if others protest that the results are not fair for everyone in the community. I moderately prefer rationality over sensibility. I tend to use reason to find the rules of life but my actions are tempered by sensibility, being flexible as I prudently follow my intuition and heart. My blind spot according to the report is that my belief that motive justifies method, because I am so clear about my reasons for acting I tend to believe that the motive justifies the method. I may unintentionally cause people to become upset and cause pain because I can be so focused on my good motive. This is a very true statement about me, sadly it is correct that I can and have several times over caused upset in order to achieve my goals. It also says that I tend to believe that ethics are a set of universal rules that everyone must follow, as I do. I follow the rules- everyone should. My strengths according to the statement are temperance, meaning that I act with integrity in the exercise of all of my values. I am also responsible, or at least my definition of responsibility and its application. I also believe in fulfilling duties in the fullest expression of fairness and justice and my gift is apparently self-knowledge. I use critical thinking skills in my method for learning and problem solving. My weaknesses include a possibility of becoming autocratic or bossy, I prefer people to do things my way in order to measure up ethically and I do not consider other interpretations of the facts to other approaches once I made up my mind. The only response to that is that I am a little like this, however if I have made up my mind then I already have the supporting facts, if I lack those then I am very open to suggestions. I am tempted by excuses, meaning that I can convince myself that the rules change or do not apply to me at the time if they do not meet my “responsibility,” even though my responsible self is telling me otherwise. My vice is becoming judgmental and legalistic which states that I can become overly rigid in my expectations and can judge others unfairly if they do not fulfill their believed duties. Finally my crisis is “becoming exhausted” which says that at some point if I do not develop a practice of being mindful and reflect on things then I will tire. It tells me that I cannot do it all! In conclusion I need to listen to my intuition and heart to ensure that they agree with my head. I need to be flexible and have concern for the entire community. I do not really agree with this though as I tend to be more of a self-reliant person and do not often agree with the community. To many people have to many feelings and everyone gets offended at the slightest hint of anything that they do not like. I prefer to be more self-serving but help those in need of help as they will be grateful for your assistance. So my plan of action is to stay true to who I am as again I do not believe in changing for anyone or anything as it compromises my “self” being. I am not a big fan of being analyzed by others or being judged by others as I do not actually judge others because we are all individuals and we fit in with those like us. The final statement in the lens is correct though I am a very compassionate person and I do care about others as long as they are true to who they are.