Ethics in Human Services

The assignment content discusses ethics in human services and youth work agencies. It explores why some people argue that morality is only possible if based on a belief in God or a higher being, and the arguments against this position. The discussion also touches upon potential ethical difficulties that arise when workers' ethics are informed by their religious beliefs, as well as the consequences of ethical egoism for youth work or human services work.

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3.1 Why do some people argue that morality is only possible if based on belief in God or a higher being?
What are the arguments against this position?
Morality is linked to the diversity and ethics. All are dependent on the God. Morality and the moral life
are usually linked to the God, as the God is considered as the morally good creator of the universe. Due to
the set belief, it has penetrated into the moral life of the person. It is conscious which makes us fearful
and wise, due to being punished as per the belief of the God. All this moral and the moral life is based on
the belief due to the religion. The religion preaches the moral life and considers not abiding, to be
punished by the God. People attribute morality due to their belief in the God which governs their
conscious, behavior and their mindsets.
3.2 What are the arguments against this position?
The moral arguments are the existence of the God of the diverse family of the argument.It is an issue
which been dealt with the metaethics.it is a favor of the religious arguments upon which the moral
arguments exist. While it is considered the moral arguments are theoretical in nature the other part
consider as a secular in accounts. it's a rational belief and the practical arguments may have a strategize
theoretical dimensions. The goals of the arguments are dependent on the existence of the God. It is
viewed as thesis arguments which can have philosophical arguments on account of the forming a logic to
reach the standards. Arguments suggest that there is a belief in the God which can people some
reasonable. It is positioned upon the God’s existence as an evidence.
3.3 Many human services and youth work agencies are operated by religious organizations.
What are the potential ethical difficulties that arise when workers’ ethics are informed by their
religious belief? How can the difficulties be avoided?
The ethics are self-consciousness upon which the human services and youth work agencies would like to
help the community. When there is a religious belief, it can bring a set pattern learning and the ideologies
which can penetrate into the behavior and the attitudes of the human services and the youth work

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agencies. It may lead to a conflict in between the ethics and the religious beliefs to perform their duties
(Porter, 2014). It is difficult to be avoided as there is a set mental block which is due to the strong beliefs
in the religion. If the individual has a strong ethics it can help in deterring the strong beliefs of the
religion and making the person overcome and follow his set duties.
4.1 Outline some of the reasons they propose to support this position?
It is based on the belief of the ethical egoism, which is the denotation of the ones own good according to
the support of mortality. It is a way to support one own’s belief and to promote one's own good. It is a
belief of not to promote it. The decision to act on the self-interest and to derive the value generation out of
it needs to work on the rationale of the self-interest. The belief to promote one’s self-aims and ambitions,
and to think about the self-interest is based on identifying one's own favorable conditions. It is a self-
belief to work on the desires of own’s happiness; gradually happiness will follow your thoughts. It is to
think one’s own priority and then take the other people consideration.
4. 2 Outline some of the objections to ethical egoism?
It is defined and analyzed on the basis of the moral agent's ethical egoism which claims that people work
as per their self-interest. The ethical egoism has the moral agents and the and a set obligation which needs
to work on the rationale of the self-interest. All the actions and the consequences are related and thought
from the perspective of the ethical egoism. The objections are they are better than the bigotry and divides
the people based on the arbitrary disputes. It has objections of the fact, why the interest of the other ought
to concern the interest of oneself. The ethical egoism is based on one’s own judgment and works towards
the oxymoron. Due to the ethical egoism, it fails to acknowledge the interests of the others as they view
the perspective of the care about one’s own self-interests.
4.3 Discuss some possible consequences of ethical egoism for youth work or human services work?

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The consequences of the ethical egoism upon the youth work and on the human services are the
identification in between the good or bad (Al-Attar, 2015). It would impact the reason to serve in the
morally and immorally ethically the community, as it would be based on the perspective of the impact of
the actions and the consequences based on oneself. The ideas, demonstration of the behavior to serve the
community or the youth’s thinking would totally depend on the approach oneself, we will not allow them
to serve and to help the community selflessly. They would aim to put themselves above all and to derive
benefits out of it. The approach and the perspective will be different while serving the community and
while dealing the family.

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References
Al-Attar, M. (2015). The ethics of divine command theory. The Routledge companion to Islamic
philosophy. New York: Routledge.
Porter, J. (2014). Divine Commands, Natural Law, and the Authority of God. Journal of the Society of
Christian Ethics, 34(1), 3-20.