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Chapter 2 Ethics and Public Speaking Introduction • Public speaking should ideally be governed by a strong sense of integrity • Quintilian: “The ideal of speechmaking is the good person speaking well.” Importance of Ethics • Asks us to consider if a given action is moral or immoral, fair or unfair, just or unjust, honest or dishonest Capital Punishment Importance of Ethics • Plato: In an ideal world, all speakers in a public forum would be “truthful and devoted to the good of society.” Guidelines for Ethical Speaking • Personal ethical frameworks Implications for Speaking • Don’t overestimate how closely your “frameworks” match • Rhetorical strategies for communicating ethics • Be mindful of how you evaluate appeals to ethics Guidelines for Ethical Speaking • Preparation! • Ethical obligation against providing erroneous information or misleading advice • Seek out opposing viewpoints Guidelines for Ethical Speaking • Honesty • White lie vs. “blatant contempt for the truth” • Outright lying vs. “less damaging yet still unethical behavior” • Avoid name-calling and other abusive language Guidelines for Ethical Speaking • Name-calling and personal dignity • • • • Dehumanization Not just about being “PC” Links to stereotypes Destructive social force On Stereotypes… On Stereotypes… Guidelines for Ethical Speaking • Name-calling and free speech • Prevents free-flow of ideas • Promotes ad hominem arguments • Strategic vs. ethical decisions Plagiarism • From the latin “kidnapper” • “to plagiarize means to present another person’s language or ideas as your own - to give the impression you have written or thought something yourself when you have actually taken it from someone else.” Types of Plagiarism • • • • Global plagiarism Patchwork plagiarism Incremental plagiarism Plagiarism in the internet age