10 June 2016, 11am, Friday. Moral Studies Tuitorial due date 17 June 2016
Case Study
Time is of the Essence...
Jenny is a private college student. She has been working extra hours at her part-time job in a clothing Store. The store needs her help to promote sales because the Mega Sale rush for the coming Eid Fitri festival is Starting.
She also needs the money to pay her tuition fees next semester and to fix her car so that she can drive home for the long Semester holidays. The coming holiday season also means the end of the semester, and unfortunately, final examinations. Jenny simply does not have time to study for all of her examinations as well as work the extra hours she needs.
Something has to be sacrificed, and she decides to pretend being sick on the day of her Business Management final examination paper so that she can take the make-up examination the next week, giving her more time to study. - -
She knows that it will not be hard to get a medical certificate (MC) from the busy college health clinic saying that she's too sick to take the examination. Her friend, Dennis, works there and can 'borrow' a page of their letterhead stationery. - - . . "Even if I have to lie, it's fair that I get extra time to study," Jenny tells herself, "because I have to work, and I can't study all the time like students who have their parents to pay for everything"
1. Jenny seems to see her lie as a simple case of manipulating an unfair system. Is there anything wrong with manipulating the System? Is her Strategy fair to the other Students in her business management class?
2. Jenny seems to justify her behaviour with a vague idea that 'unfair' differences between people (such as wealth) that have nothing to do with effort or intelligence should not be reflected in their grades. What do you think about her claim that she deserves more time to study than other students because they do not have to earn their own money?
3. Lying is a universally accepted bad moral value. Justify why lying is immoral and unethical.
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