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    This document discusses sources of authority and ethics, including law, religion, and culture. It examines these three sources both as individual bases for ethics and what happens when they disagree. As an example of conflict, it discusses the debate around the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines, which was opposed by the church on religious grounds but eventually passed into law. The document concludes that while these sources generally align, injustice occurs when laws disadvantage cultures or emerging cultures are silenced by dominant religions. When sources disagree, the separation of church and state must be upheld, and oppressed groups will organize and protest to have their issues heard.

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    This document discusses sources of authority and ethics, including law, religion, and culture. It examines these three sources both as individual bases for ethics and what happens when they disagree. As an example of conflict, it discusses the debate around the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines, which was opposed by the church on religious grounds but eventually passed into law. The document concludes that while these sources generally align, injustice occurs when laws disadvantage cultures or emerging cultures are silenced by dominant religions. When sources disagree, the separation of church and state must be upheld, and oppressed groups will organize and protest to have their issues heard.

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    This document discusses sources of authority and ethics, including law, religion, and culture. It examines these three sources both as individual bases for ethics and what happens when they disagree. As an example of conflict, it discusses the debate around the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines, which was opposed by the church on religious grounds but eventually passed into law. The document concludes that while these sources generally align, injustice occurs when laws disadvantage cultures or emerging cultures are silenced by dominant religions. When sources disagree, the separation of church and state must be upheld, and oppressed groups will organize and protest to have their issues heard.

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    DELGADO, BRENDAN LEWIS 15 NOV 2021

    AAMT 1-7 GEC 2108 ETHICS


    GROUP 2: BERUNIO, DELGADO, HERNANDEZ

    Lesson 4: Sources of Authority

    Experience:

    In your own experiences, which three – law, religion, culture – do you think has been
    most influential, in terms of directing you to act in certain ways rather than others?

    (insert answer)

    Assess:

    Consider the following questions:

    1. Give one of the problems with taking the (law, religion, and culture) as one’s sole
    basis for ethics.

    Law: The law can be a sole basis of ethics of an individual. They can be technical in
    terms of what can be considered as good or bad. Loopholes may be used to justify
    actions. However, it is important to be noted that just because it is the law it doesn't
    mean it is righteous. The law may criminalize actions regardless if it is morally good or
    bad.

    Religion: as a sole basis for ethics may work, as it serves to guide an individual to
    decide whether that is right or wrong. However, what can go wrong is that religion is
    used to justify things, even the wrong ones, for the sake of it. It can appear as
    hypocritical for a religious person to abide by religion yet support something that it
    prohibits (example: death penalty). 

    Culture: as the sole basis for ethics can define what is good or bad. The thing about it
    is that there are different cultures, and it tends to clash with other people's culture and
    may come off as miscommunication. Culture is a difficult one to change as it is
    ingrained within people and conditioned to accept it even though some aspects of it are
    considered bad by other people.

    Challenge:

    Brainstorm and come up with a list of what may be called common Filipino
    values. Consider the strength and weaknesses of maintaining these.

    1. Utang na loob
    Strengths:
     Being able to return the favor
    Weaknesses:

     Being used to manipulate people


    2. Bahala na
    Strengths:
     Accepting what may or may not come

    Weaknesses:
     Fatalism

    3. Hiya
    Strengths:
     Knowing one’s sense of self

    Weaknesses:

     Being used to manipulate people


     Shame/Embarrassment

    4. Family oriented
    Strengths:
     No matter what, we always prioritize the needs of our family
    members that contribute to ones emotional and mental health

    Weaknesses:
     Some family members tend to be laid back and too much
    dependent on the head or bread winner of the family and some
    become lazy

    5. Hospitality
    Strengths:
     Provides foundation in building social relationships
     You are able to meet interesting people and gain broader
    perspective

    Weaknesses:
     Being abused or used

    Harness:

    Our discussion these three institutions (law, religion, and culture) in order to
    assess their status as determinants of our ethical thinking discloses an ever-
    thornier problem. Generally, everything is fine as long as this three are telling us
    the same thing, but what happens when they disagree? What do we do when the
    clerics of a religious traditions object to a law being proposed? What do we do
    when the law disadvantages certain cultures? What do we do when emerging
    cultures claiming legitimacy stands at odds with certain religious communities?
    Try to research on such actual conflict.

    The separation of church and state is inviolable, that is found in Article II Section
    6 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution. The church may object to the proposed bill if they
    think it is not righteous but that's that, there needs to be more than religious reason for it
    to be rejected. One such example is the RH Bill, opposed by the church as they thought
    it encourages abortion.

    If the law sector decides to be oppressive, that will be an attack on its own as it
    has its own provisions that prevents them. Sectors that claim legitimacy will push for it
    as what was unheard of will be now known to others and recognize that they have
    existed, it just so happens they have been oppressed by others.

    People protest when the law isn’t enough, especially those who are victims of
    injustice. In that way they make issues heard and to show how incompetent those who
    run it. There are groups who will organize ways in order to help the oppressed and in
    such cases, injustice happens when there are those who will try to silence them.

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