You Decide:
Ethical Decision Making
Scenario
SummaryOne of the great ongoing situations that calls for
ethical decision making is the reality that there is almost always a greater
need for something than there is a supply to meet the need.For our assignment and scenario, the demand is the
life-and-death situation of the need for transplantable organs and the rather
small and transitory supply. Hard decisions need to be made, and there is
little time to think things through. Thes..
Discussion Topic 1 – Posts 15 Pages
There are
three basic propositions in standard Utilitarianism (Please be sure to listen
to Mill's audio lecture before joining this threaded discussion):
1. Actions are judged right and wrong solely on their consequences; that
is, nothing else matters except the consequence, and right actions are simply
those with the best consequences.
2. To assess consequences, the only thing that matters is the amount of
happiness and unhappiness caused;..
Discussion Topic 2 – Posts 17 Pages Utilitarian
ethics clearly connect individuals with their larger community, but at the
individual level, they are not completely unlike the care-based ethics
presented in the Three Primary Schools model. Care-based ethics enjoys a kind
of reciprocity between people in which decision-makers can imagine themselves
as the object of the decision as well as the subject of the decision-making
process. At the same time, and perceiving themselves in dual roles in..