Ethical Leadership Of Boy Scouts

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For my ethical leadership paper I choose the Boy Scouts of America organization. The reason that I choose the Boy Scouts of America was that I could not think of a more ethical organization than them. The reason that they are so ethical is that they train young men every day to put other people before there selves when they do community service. A very good example of this would be in 2008 four boy scouts were killed trying to help others before there selves when a tornado hit a camp site in Iowa (Del,J 2008). This show a type of leadership that many people would not understand unless they went through the program. To me this show true leadership because they put their lives on the line to save others. This kind of mind set is put into …show more content…

This is really cool because it teaches many young kids how too properly and safely shoot a bow and gun. Many people do not think that this is a good idea because it could lead to violence when the kid grows up. I personally think it is a good idea and it teaches the kids ethics on other thing like how to be safe around guns. In the article it talked about the relationship between the Boy Scouts of America and the National Rifle Association (Mechling, Jay). In the article they made it sound like only men could shoot guns and that is another reason people were against it because it made the young boys think they are better than girls. I think that this is a bad idea because even girls need to learn how to shoot guns and bows too. To me this teaches people how to be proper citizens in the …show more content…

I feel like that if everyone had the attitude toward life like a Boy Scout the world would be a better place because there would be less greed in the world. I feel like I could make my life better personally by trying to help others in need more than saying it is there fault that they are like this. Everyone has the same opportunity in life you just sometimes need to find the best thing for yourself. I personally felt like this impacted my life because now for the community service required I am going to go to the Ozark Food Harvest to try to help them give food away to the people in