Individual Ethics vs Society Ethics

Eventually one is faced with a problem to either help one or help many. Often, good for one is not the same, and sometimes the opposite, of good for others. It also frequently happens in ethics… Consider this: one of your relatives is very sick and asks you to take a certain amount of money to donate to some nonprofit organization that helps hungry children all over the world. If you do so, you will save many children”s lives. You can also spend the money to hire a really good doctor and possibly help that relative (maybe even save their life, who knows?). At last, but not least, you can take that money for yourself. The third option is of course the least ethical, but the first two are much harder to guess on. Going against the will of your relative and possibly indirectly killing children is unethical, but not doing anything to save your relative is also unethical and immoral. What would you do in this situation?

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