Ethical conflicts can emerge when codes of conduct conflict in a given situation. For an example, consider a scenario posed several years ago in the magazine "Social Work Today." A social worker in a state-funded public agency is not allowed to counsel a clinically depressed undocumented immigrant who has previously attempted suicide. If he counsels the immigrant and saves her life, he will lose his job. If he turns away and the immigrant successfully commits suicide, the social worker’s inaction will have broken moral and ethical codes against allowing harm to come to others.