Limmits

The prioritizing of one action over the other could arise from our limits in our own understanding as well as our ability to predict the outcome of our action. From this stance the existence of values and their role in our decision-making is essential. Humans have the great ability to analyze and understand the problems that they face in their lives. But doing so will be quite consuming, thus it is natural for us humans to rely on our own values and set them as our basis of our decision-making.

All of us have faced an ethical dilemma at least once in a lifetime. These are problems that are just on the border of two or more values. One must ask the question, “what can be done?” Take me as an example, I have chosen my major to be applied math in spite of the fact that I came from a family with a strong background in medical sciences. They expected me to follow in my father’s footsteps and become a surgeon. Now I faced the dilemma of choosing a medical career as my path or sticking with math. Lets investigate the factors that might contribute to this choice and they affect it.

As any human I value my freedom greatly and I believe freedom is the source of inspiration. I came from a country that is not quite stable. As I have grown up, I came to realize the probity of me having a chance for success within my home country is minimal. I also realize that only thing that might provide a chance of success in that society would be pursuing a job in medical field. On one hand seeing my father go through great amounts of stress every day pushed me further away from pursuing medical science. On the other hand the tendency of finding something stable pushed me toward math. This was an uninvestigated land that I could investigate freely and look under each and every stone of it without any prohibition.

It wasn’t until the last grade of high school that I realized that there is a side of math that it is little spoken of. There is beautiful side that is discrete, that has minimum redundancy and is quite fixed and unchangeable. It was as if I landed on the dark side of the moon! I had taken the first step to better understanding the underlying concepts of the math universe. At first I was extremely absorbed in this part of math, especially when one of my teachers proved that zero is a mutual factor in algebraic addition. Although the proof seemed redundant at the time, it ended up being an eye-opening experience for me. It was as if a new door was opened in my life to an uninvestigated land of wonders. It made me realize that for every why there was a response.

When I was introduced to the basic concepts of math there were a few ideas which were generally accepted with no proof (axioms). With these axioms we assumed the basis of the realm of mathematics. These fundamental ideas have passed the test of centuries and mostly left unchanged. Yet they are foundation of very complicated concept that some time is beyond our imagination. Look at all of the engineered structures by humans around you, from the smallest chip in your watch to the discovery shuttle, that orbited the moon, they all rely on these fundamental ideas to work.

On the other hand the satisfaction that one gets by treating people in medical field cannot be understated. Rarely does one get the chance of saving another’s life. My words are not enough to describe this satisfaction. On the other hand being in the medical field is quite stressful. This field evolves people lives and any small mistake can translate to a disaster, a disaster is not undoable. there is no question as to the high demand of doctors, which makes their jobs more secure than other fields. The security might translate to stability in ones life. Yet the stress induced into their life by their profession should not be ignored. The responsibility of peoples’ lives cannot be taken lightly. Perhaps the stress of the field outweighs its stability in terms of job.

In making this decision one’s capabilities