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Ethical Decision Making in Professional Contexts
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You are a Superintendent of Police (SP) in a district. You are approached by a boy and a girl who are seeking police protection. They claim that they are adults and are of marriageable age and are ready to furnish documentary evidence to this effect. They want to marry each other, but they belong to different castes and their families and communities are opposed to the marriage. Further, the girl’s family and community have threatened the boy with dire consequences.
You are personally not in favour of marriages which involve elopement and believe family blessings are important for a strong foundation of marriage. Besides, your work force is hard pressed for man power on account of some political agitation which is going on. In such a situation you would
- Convince the boy and the girl to return to the their families and seek their blessings before marriage
- Take the telephone numbers of their parents, speak personally to their parents and try to convince them to allow the boy and the girl to marry
- Seek a report/complaint in writing from the boy and girl and then allow police protection
- Ask them to come after a week as you are busy and lack man power to give police protection