The Importance of Thoughtfulness

In an extremely competitive world, people tend to become primarily focused on themselves. Sometimes this focus on their own person or interests induces ethical conflicts, with outcome there is arrival at deliberate cheating of others to whom they owe some fiduciary responsibility.

Whenever one person owes fiduciary responsibility to another, there exists a morally or legally binding demand for trustworthiness.

Illustrations of fiduciary responsibility are inclusive of teacher — student relationships, that is, the fiduciary responsibility that students’ grades be fair representations of their performance — the fiduciary responsibility that ranking of students’ performance be fair.

If Professor A ranks students I and II as scoring 90 & 80, respectively, and Professor B of similar or higher expertise who lacks any conflict of interest with Professor A ranks same students as scoring 89 and 82, there does not exist any violation of fiduciary responsibility on the part of Professor A.