Ethical Scrapbook Part Ii Cja/324 - 1486 Words

Ethical Scrapbook Part II CJA/324 November 29, 2012 Virginia Swisher Our first questions and issue discussed deals with the subject â€Å"Good Samaritan.† We as a team had to decide should jurisdictions have a â€Å"Good Samaritan† law requiring an individual to help another if he or she is able. Without thought or time wasted debating one another, we all agree (except Frank) that no there should not be â€Å"Good Samaritan† law. We believed that if individuals want to assist when someone is in distress he or she would do so no matter what. Also our team (except Frank) feels if it were a law that would promote vigilantism. Frank believes if individuals knew there was a law that allows them to help others in a time of need, perhaps more†¦show more content†¦With all the money and fame at risk in sports, it should come as no surprise that some of these athletes make unethical decisions to ensure a higher success rate and in turn more money for themselves. The unethical decisions made by athletes involve their choice to use anabolic steroids. Sports are officiated in fairness where the same rules apply to both teams. Athletes who use steroids gain a strength, speed, and performance boost. The increase in physical attributes for an athlete allows them to have an edge against athletes who do not use the drugs. Athletes that engage in performance enhancing drug use are cheating in the sport, but it is difficult to blame them given the incredibly large salaries a successful athlete potentially could make. The average NBA player has a five million dollar salary, the average MLB player has a three million dollar salary, the average NHL player has a 2.4 million dollar salary, and the average NFL player has a salary of 1.9 million dollars. Athletes must perform very well to earn these multimillion dollar salaries and anabolic steroids allow an athlete earn these large sums of money because of positive effects the drugs produce for them. Steroids have a low cost but high reward ratio; a couple of hundred do llars spent on an anabolic steroid cycle could easily help the athlete make hundreds of thousands of dollars in return with the boosts in the performance for the sport they play. This