Whistle Blower Blog

Unless a whistleblower did what he did for some personal gain i.e. money promotion etc., I still think they were justified for doing what was right. The author addressed this issue ( pg 64). Everyone should stand for something; not taking a position at all is worse. What kind of society would we be without ethics?

I am not completely convinced that all whistleblowers are moral narcissists. Some may lean towards this tendency, but not all. The environment, in which we are raised, plays an important role in the type of choices we make; this has a direct effect on our decisions. (pg 69) If you grew up in a community that taught you to help others, and taught you to treat people with kindness and respect, does that make you a narcissist, to want to do the right thing? Having moral convictions and ethics makes us human; totally destroying a person emotionally, physically and financially, because they were trying to stop people from dying, is much worse act, than blowing the whistle. The arguments presented to explain narcisstic moralization, could have some merit, depending on how you look at it, but I don’t feel it rings true for all of the whistleblowers. There are some people who truly care about children dying and not just their own children; in some communities people believe in looking out for all the children. I could see this type of person blowing the whistle. I guess the term moral narcissism is more what I have a problem with. The whistleblower is not according to the author, a narcissist in the true sense of the word per say. (pg 63) His discussion (pg 79) gives what I feel to be a better depiction of a person in relationship to using the narcissist term, for an individual who is doing the right thing.

I am reminded of what it means for a politician, an elected official to work for the people. You take on the responsibility of looking out for the interests of the public. You are the people’s voice. If there were some sort of environmental danger to the people of the community, which the candidate that I am volunteering for represents and he did nothing, he would not be fulfilling his commitment. It is his job to see that the people he represents are taken care of.