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Some Key Dilemmas in Ethical Communication Include

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Some key dilemmas in ethical communication include:

 Balancing transparency and privacy: Communicators must navigate the tension


between the public's right to know and an individual's right to privacy.
 Managing conflicts of interest: Communicators may face pressures to represent
certain agendas or interests, requiring them to maintain impartiality.
 Dealing with misinformation and deception: Ethical communicators must
identify and counter the spread of false or misleading information.
 Navigating cultural differences: Communication across diverse cultural
contexts raises ethical considerations around language, norms, and values.
 Upholding professional standards: Communicators in various fields must
adhere to industry-specific ethical codes and guidelines.

Ultimately, ethical communication is essential for building trust, promoting social harmony, and
ensuring the responsible use of communication technologies and practices. It requires
communicators to constantly reflect on their moral obligations and act with integrity.

Ethics when Communicating

Your audience expects you to treat them with respect, and deliberately manipulating them by
means of fear, guilt, duty, or a relationship is unethical.

Deception can involve intentional bias, or the selection of information to support your position
while framing negatively any information that might challenge your belief.

Bribery involves the giving of something in return for an expected favor, consideration, or
privilege.

Coercion is the use of power to compel action.

Below are some ethics proposals by Richard Johannesen to consider when speaking to persuade.
Do not:

 Use false, fabricated, misrepresented, distorted or irrelevant evidence to support


arguments or claims.
 Intentionally use unsupported, misleading, or illogical reasoning.
 Represent yourself as informed or an expert on a subject when you are not.
 Use irrelevant appeals to divert attention from the issue at hand.
 Ask your audience to link your idea or proposal to emotion-laden values, motives, or
goals to which it is actually not related.
 Deceive your audience by concealing your real purpose, by concealing self-interest, by
concealing the group you represent, or by concealing your position as an advocate of a
viewpoint.
 Distort, hide, or misrepresent the number, scope, intensity, or undesirable features of
consequences or effects.
 Use emotional appeals that lack a supporting basis of evidence or reasoning.
 Oversimplify complex, gradation-laden situations into simplistic, two-valued, either-or,
polar views or choices.
 Pretend certainty where tentativeness and degrees of probability would be more accurate.
 Advocate something which you yourself do not believe in.

Avoiding Fallacies when Communicating

Fallacies are another way of saying false logic. These rhetorical tricks deceive your audience
with their style, drama, or pattern, but add little to your speech in terms of substance and can
actually detract from your effectiveness. Some examples of fallacies include:

 Red Herring - Any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue,
particularly by relating the issue to a common fear.
 Straw Man - A weak argument set up to be easily refuted, distracting attention from
stronger arguments
 Begging the Question - Claiming the truth of the very matter in question, as if it were
already an obvious conclusion.
 Circular Argument - The proposition is used to prove itself. Assumes the very thing it
aims to prove. Related to begging the question
 Ad Populum - Appeals to a common belief of some people, often prejudicial, and states
everyone holds this belief. Also called the Bandwagon Fallacy, as people jump on the
bandwagon of a perceived popular view.
 Ad Hominem - Argument against the man instead of against his message. Stating that
someones argument is wrong solely because of something about the person rather than
about the argument itself.
 Non Sequitur - It does not follow. The conclusion does not follow from the premises.
They are not related.
 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - After this, therefore because of this, also called a
coincidental correlation. It tries to establish a cause-and-effect relationship where only a
correlation exists.

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