"Intuition, Ethics and Biases"

PART A:

Biases are constantly influencing our lives and how we perceive actions and ethical decisions.
The Halo effect is one cognitive bias that is very prevalent in our society. The Halo effect is the bias that people are effected by when they see someone is good at one thing and they are inclined to believe that that person is good in everything else as well, hence "halo" effect. When students at school have their eyes on a person that they like, they tend not to see his or her imperfections, but rather everything they're good at (i.e. sports, theater etc.) and believe that they are perfect at everything.

PART B:

Intuition can be both a lens into the truth and can also lead us to biases of the truth when we make moral and ethical decisions.
As an example, say you are a law enforcement officer who is trying to arrest a criminal but you're not quite sure who committed the crime. Intuition can be a great and valuable asset when you are searching for this particular person, but can also cloud your vision when trying to find the criminal. Intuition can help you have the gut feeling of who committed the crime based on the given evidence and circumstances, but at the same time, because of the evidence and circumstances, you're vision can be clouded because your intuition can lead you to a specific person that didn't actually commit the crime. It's like in the movie Silence of the Lambs (1991), when Jack Crawford and Clarice Starling are trying to catch Buffalo Bill. In one particular scene of the movie, Jack Crawford takes a team to Illinois in order to catch a suspect after cross referencing file information and using his intuition. While this is going on Starling, with the help of her intuition, figures out that it is possible that the first victim knew Buffalo Bill personally and travels to the victim's hometown in Ohio. This later leads her to the apprehension of the real killer. As I stated before, it is possible that intuition can lead us to the truth, but also cloud our vision. Crawford's intuition mislead him, but Starling's intuition brought down a dangerous criminal.

PART C:

The possession of knowledge carries ethical responsibilities.

Personally, I believe that this statement is true. For example, say that you and others know someone who is working more than three jobs trying to pay the rent of their apartment, pay back debts and feed their little children, but are struggling and are on the brink of eviction. If the you and other people who know this don't do anything to help this family then they might go under in debt, get evicted and starve, then potentially die from lack of food and shelter. You have an ethical responsibility to help these people so that they can keep themselves afloat because life is precious and should be preserved as much as possible.