Decision Making
Decisions, decisions, decisions...
It sometimes seems as if life is all about decisions, doesn't it? The Internet article that I've chosen to summarize and critique in this composition deals with the art and/or science of decision making. More specifically, it deals with the issue of making ethical decisions, as its title "Making Ethical Decisions" implies. (http://www.josephsoninstitute.org). The article gives a hypothetical example of an extreme situation in which a very tough ethical decision must be made. It then asks the reader what decision he/she would make in this situation. Here is the hypothetical situation, taken straight from the article:
Say you are the widowed parent of three children. You have no immediate family or close friends. A severe recession has left you jobless for 18 months. Your skills are not in demand. Six months ago you started looking outside your field, increasingly willing to take anything. But even minimum wage positions were scarce and did not pay enough for one person to live on, much less four.
English: Managing emotions - Identifying feelings
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