Part 1:
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Someone puts in time and money and therefore they will still do it whether they want to or not. An example would be you do not want to go to the movies but you have already paid for the ticket therefore you will go. I actually did this myself this week. My friend and I decided we wanted to go to the movies. We called ahead and made sure there were tickets and reserved two. Later in the day I decided I was not in the mood because I knew it was going to be a sad movie. But I had already reserved the ticket and knew it would not be nice to not go, plus my friend also had my money for it!
Part 2:
Intuition can act as both a lens and as a filter when making a moral or ethical decision. It can act as a lens in the sense of moral things because it is our gut feeling. Moral means that is what we believe is right. If you see on the media something tragic happens, your moral compass would generally make you feel empathy for the people in the tragedy. It helps you understand things better and will also make you want to help. Ethically it is a lens because ethical decisions deal with religion a lot of times. In the bible it states things like you shall not seduce your neighbors wife (of course not in those words). Due to religion, intuitively we think that cheating on a persons husband/wife is bad, no question.
Intuition also can act as a filter though. A good example would be the media. A lot of times the media shows us only what they want us to believe and therefore does not show the truth about what is happening in the world at that moment. Because of only seeing part of the story, our intuition does not allow us to see the rest of what is happening. We make conclusions about what was said on the news and that is it. If we see anything else we immediately pin it as wrong and lies, whether that is true or not. Ethically it can not allow us to see clearly because we want to believe what the bible says. This kind of goes hand in hand with the gay marriage debate. In the bible it says that marriage is between a man and a woman. Many Christians , not all, believe intuitively that when the word marriage is said they think of a man and woman not a man and a man. Another place where there is a filter is on the LGBT side. Many Christians, again not all, just do not wish for it to be called marriage and instead want it to be called a civil union, but LGBT sometimes will not listen to this side and pin Christians as hateful when this is not true. there are Christians who are, but there are also a good portion who are not.
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When someone has knowledge they do have an ethical responsibility to share their knowledge depending on the situation. In a situation where someone knew that there was going to be an attack on somewhere and knew that hundreds of people would be killed in the flames, then it is their responsibility is to tell someone who could save these people. In the sense of knowing the recipe to a wonderful lemon square recipe it is not their ethical responsibility to do share this knowledge, as nice as it would have been for them to share it before they died.
