Currently, What Are the Major Ethical Issues of Our Society? Have These Issues Changed Throughout the Years? If so, How?

Activity 1.4 - Discussion: Ethical Issues

Participate in the Module 1 Ethical Issues Discussion.

Currently, what are the major ethical issues of our society? Have these issues changed throughout the years? If so, how?

There are many ethical issues our society has nowadays. Considering the recession we have, the national depth, the Post Iraq and Afghanistan war. Due to the economy there are fewer jobs and many with low wages and no benefits like health insurance. The people in this country are getting poorer. The results are high unemployment and low job security. People can’t afford their houses anymore and the outcome is the high foreclosure rate. It is followed by homelessness. People or even families are living in travel trailers, cars or on the street. Cost of living and rent prices are going up. The country is divided how the government supposed to run, false decisions are made and unnecessary things prioritized. (e.g. same sex marriages, Government borrows money from Social Security funds to pay off national dept and so on…) When is it supposed to end? Will it take years to come? Will a new president save this country and will he be able to?

Many problems increased after 9/11; the recession and war with Iraq and Afghanistan. All the other problems were just a chain reaction to it. The main issue discussed so far in this forum is same sex marriage. It seems to push the button of many people. Sure it is an issue this country should not deal with while people are living on poverty limit, no jobs available and government making unethical decisions on how to run this country.

In my opinion it will take many years to heal. The recession after WWII took many years to recover from. For me being originally from Europe, my grandparents passed it on to future generations, including mine. We were raised on using thing sparingly, heat with wood, grow our own food and eat left overs. We were never poor but the fear was passed on to the third generation....