Ethical Reflections On Social Public Crises Decision-making

Since human society has existed there were social public crises.In this era, the process of globalization,the new revolution oftechnology and people pursuit of utility increase the .possibility ofsocial public crises greatly. Social public crises become morefrequent and complex. China is in a period of social transformation,that is in a special period of social public crises break out frequently.As the crisis will harm public interests and affect the order of societyand social development .How to deal with public crises is a publicpolicy issue, even become a more important moral issue.Social public crises decision-making is a special kind of publicdecision-making that different from many other publicdecision-makings. Social public crises decision-making have threecharacteristics: first, it is urgency in the decision-making time; second,the information in the decision-making is limited; third, the decisionresults in areas of high risk. Make a better social public crisesdecision to deal with social public crises. The decision-makers shouldpay attention to the ethical characteristics of the decision-making,including responsibility, rationality and effectiveness. The ethicalvalues of social public crises decision-making can be realized on thisbase. And protect the personal safety of life and property andmaintaining social order and promoting social development.To achieve the ethical values, the decision-makers should payattention to the ethical characteristics and value of the public crisesdecisions. In the process of decision-making, the makers should obeyto four ethical principles: People-oriented principle, equitableprinciple, efficient principle and at least damage Principle. Differentprinciple have different moral requires.To achieve the ethical values, the decision-makers should payattention to the following points: first, analysis the Ethical Dilemmasthat in decision-making process carefully and rationally; second, try tomake public crises decisions moral. There are some mainly ethical dilemmas in the process of social public crises decision-making, theethical dilemma between public participation and governmentdecision-making, the ethical dilemma between cost and effect and theethical dilemma among different interests. The moral public crisesdecisions require to establish reasonable procedures, establish moralstandards and advance the decision-makers moral qualities.It is impossible to avoid the crises, but crises are not completelynegative, instead, it would make the government adopt a more rationalway to deal with public crises ,enhance the sense of responsibility andgovernance capacity greatly, improved relations between the membersof society to address the common values and social recognition, thusbuilding a harmonious society of socialism in our country.