ALCOHOLISM AND AN ETHICAL DILEMMA When I first began my quest to become a police officer more than two decades ago, I passionately believed that one day I would achieve my goal. I also realized that o
ALCOHOLISM AND AN ETHICAL DILEMMA When I first began my quest to become a police officer more than two decades ago, I passionately believed that one day I would achieve my goal. I also realized that o
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ALCOHOLISM AND AN ETHICAL DILEMMA
Thanks to psychologist Leon Festinger, we now know this phenomenon as cognitive dissonance. What Festinger put forth was an outline for understanding ethical dilemmas as follows; “If a person holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent, he experiences Dissonance: a negative drive state (not unlike hunger or thirst). Because the experience of