In the recent past, I experienced an ethical and moral dilemma that forced me to decide between loyalty and honesty, which the resulting choice on my side would eventually determine my future decisions. During that time, when I observed the unethical situation, I was working as an assistant for a pharmacy technician. At the time, a fellow assistant was likewise employed, and therefore, we worked together and ended up being close friends. Now, the ethical dilemma in this situation involved my fellow assistant technician, whom as a friend, I had observed him as being obsessed with bodybuilding to the point that he would take intravenous steroids from the workplace without anyone noticing but me. This situation was indeed unethical, but the dilemma came from the fact that he was my friend, and he was consistently successful in stealing the drugs without nobody noticing.
Up to today, my thoughts and opinion continue to haunt me because I never knew whether I was right in keeping silent on the situation or not. When I observed the situation from an ethical point of view, it is easy to point out the right and wrong in making a judgment concerning the stealing. However, from an empirical point of view, the decisions I had to make were easy, but the only problem was the psychological and emotional elements that influenced my judgment. To point out the fact, other people would say that my colleague did not deserve my loyalty for his indiscretion, as he continued to jeopardize our friendship. Be that as it may, he never asked me to cover his faults, and apparently, he trusted me to keep his secret.
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As a matter of fact, I was in a position to plead ignorance in case our employer found out, and at the same time, there was no concrete evidence held against me with regards to the situation. During that time, I felt that my decisions were correct because I stood with honesty as I was taught ever since childhood. However, with the burden still resting on my shoulders, I feel like it was my duty to inform the employer about the situation, but that would automatically end our friendship with my colleague. Therefore, to keep our friendship intact, perhaps my only duty was to remain silent and do my duties as assigned to me in the pharmacy. Keeping my friend's secret likewise felt like a duty, I ought to value. These duties conflicted and gave me physical duress. Therefore, the best move I could have made was to ask my friend to stop his endeavours, or I report him, and if he understood our friendship, he could have stopped.
