Personal morals must always trump job requirements regardless of the personal stakes, employees have responsibilities and duties to deny job requirements when they interfere with personal morals and values. On Wall Street, many powerful employers force their workers to complete horrendous tasks some of which would interfere with their personal beliefs and ideals. Many workers do not have enough self-respect to stand up to those who abuse their power, instead accept the demands, and let their morals be ignored, which mostly leads to negative consequences. Personal stakes can be ignored when morals are at stake, risk without definite sacrifice is an action which needs to be taken. Many people such as Jordan Belfort, and Albert …show more content…
In the story Frankenstein, a classic novel by Marry Shelley, the main character Victor Frankenstein, allows his morals to be trumped by job requirements, which results in damaging personal stakes. Victor discovers a way to reanimate the dead. Taking actions which he later goes on to regret states, “Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow,” (Shelley 62). While creating the monster he sounds disgusted at his actions, “I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment. The dissection room and the slaughterhouse furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion,” (Shelley 65). Bringing the monster of his creation to life, the monster then goes on to kill William, his little brother, while Justine, a person of great importance to his cousin, is framed for the