Moral Muteness

There are time when we know the right thing to do but we don’t for whatever reason we turn away or walk on by, what do these moments say about use and are values and morality?

For me it’s hard to think of a time that I was morally muteness in the recent past. I truly try to do what I feel is right. However I guess there is one example that I can think of, it’s actually rather close to home as far as moral muteness events go. I got a midterm back from one of my classes this particular class also goes over the midterms in class, to see what you got right and wrong, as we were going over it, I noticed that I had missed 18 points out of a 100 on the paper but my carmen grade for the class states that I got a 87 on the exam. Clearly the points had been entered in wrong and for me the morally right thing to do would be to notify the teacher, I didn’t earn those points and since the class is curved my higher grade would in some small way affect the class curve for that test, but I didn’t I said nothing and kept the grade.

It does bring into question my values I value honest as one of my top three personal values however I didn’t follow through with it, why? For me I think that we hold are values to a certain degree but that values come into question when we are presented with a situation that is self-importance where we will be harmed or helped depending on whether we keep in line with our value.For me in that situation the harm was to great and I compromised my values in order to avoid the harm of losing the points. 

In general I think there are situations that test are values where we abandon them either do to a lack of understanding of the situation in which we don’t realize he have compromised our values. Or a situations where we know we must compromise are values to avoid pain, and are forced to weigh that pain against are value.