EXERCISE; ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR

• You find some good images on the web that would look good on your site.  You copy and paste them to your blog.
  
  

It would be unethical to just copy and paste someone else’s work. I will seek permission for copyright from the publisher, to re-use that.
According to me, I will be inspired by the good images and get some idea out of it, as I would use my creativity, imagination to get a better and original outcome.

You are in a hurry to finish an assignment and you find the perfect explanation of a difficult concept on wikipedia. You decide to copy it into your work.
Personally, I will try to paraphrase the information which I received from the article and I will not just copy paste . Along with that , i will give proper citation and references as it would be more ethical and right way of doing it.

You are a medical researcher and you think you have discovered a new drug that cures lung cancer.  It worked well on mice although a few of them died of heart problems. You want to test it on people.  You recruit 100 lung cancer patients into your treatment programme. You don’t tell them about the new drug.  You treat 50 patients with usual drugs and 50 with the new drug to see which is better.
Without seeking permission from the higher authority, we are not allowed to do this experiment. Above all, even in the medical field and the hospital, permission must be obtained from the person concerned. It’s unethical if they don’t follow the rules or try to hide from people about the experiment or research to the patients. According to a study recently published in BMJ Quality & Safety , an online journal that provides information relating to healthcare quality, 43 million instances of medical negligence  occur worldwide every single year.

• You are doing your PhD about drug abuse among students.  You interview 30 students about their drug use. You discover that one of the students is actually a fairly big time dealer and you report him to the police.
  Indeed it is one of the risky issues for the respective pupil. Just with the help of interview its impossible to figure out the student dealings.
  I will inform to the school counselor and his parents before involving the police. Because involving police may destroy his career as it is unethical. However they have to take necessary action against to protect the student from the disaster that’s quite ethical.
  
• You are a researcher looking at the effect of violent computer games on children.  You recruit 20 children into your study. Over a month you regularly show them images of violence to see if it has an adverse effect on their behaviour.  One of the children becomes quite distressed each time and so you stop showing her images and drop her from the study.
  
  

It’s ethical to do these tests with the permission of parents and children and as long as the child is comfortable and not getting affected by the research.
If something goes wrong with the child due to this, I have to drop the respective student and continue the research with the rest of the students.
I feel that children should not be involved with these outbreaks of violence which may affect their mindset.

• You want to research how easy it is to hack into your organisation’s computer system by persuading people to divulge login and password details.  You recruit a small team to ring up key people in the organisation and persuade them to give either their own or their boss’s details.
  
  I will seek permission from the organization for the research because it might end up as breaching the privacy. However it is easy to hack the system with the help of hacking team but its unethical.
  Selected team has to be trustworthy and they should sign a confidentiality contract that they will keep every information ,data as confidential and safe .
  In future if the information is leaked out then they will be prosecuted.

You are doing an initial research in area of a town where may bars and pubs are located, to estimate the level of problematic social behaviour in the area. your research is independent from the police, because you want to observe their behaviour as well. You observe both abusive and violent behaviour.

At some level, it’s really necessary to deal with other things without their knowledge, so that it doesn’t seem to influence many people.
It is followed in many cases by government officials as undercover investigative officers.
Once social issues emerge, the police should take the necessary steps to stop all such accidents. It’s legal to notice aggressive things because it helps a lot of others to be on a safer side.