I need support with this Philosophy question so I can learn better.
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Formulating and implementing ethical decision making standards consistently can be a very tough thing to do. In some cases, there are several competing concerns and demands that might shape decisions made at the national security level that might have ethical implications. These implications are not always visible or communicated to the public based on a need to know classification level. For example, when decisions are made at the strategic level of our government that adversely impact the lives of Americans, such concerns can weigh-in on the timeliness and risk level of an ethical decision.
What are some other implications that might impact ethical decisions made within a national security contextual environment? 100 word answer
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It’s obvious that other nations do not follow the Geneva convention that was established after WWII for the fair treatment of prisoners, look at POW stories from Vietnam. It’s the reason that we send our soldiers through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) school and the possibilities of how they could be treated. I also agree that the economics that play into any conflict are major factors and a large reason we have become a “world police”. I would prefer to let some of these other countries fix their own problems but us as a nation are dependent on so many export products like oil. The biggest issue for us and the Geneva Convention has been the labeling of who is/isn’t a POW and the recognition of it? A lot of terrible pictures of some of our over seas holding cells were released to the world not that long ago from the Ghraib prison that shouldn’t have happened.
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