TOPIC:utilitarian ethics and decision-making 1. Briefly explain what utilitarian ethics is and the process one would go through to make a decision based on utilitarian principles. 2. Looking at decision–making in the public safety realm, in what type of decision might utilitarian principles yield the best results or, at very least, be necessitated by the […]
Do you think that this type of moral choice between the lesser of evils as in this Trolley Problem is realistic to what we might face in our everyday lives or places of employment?
Texas has a law that prohibits the removal of mechanical life-support such as a ventilator from a pregnant patient. In November 2013, when Marlise Munoz was 14 weeks pregnant she was found unconscious in her Texas home. With her husband and family in deep distress, they rushed her to a hospital where she was placed […]