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    Ethical Game The first skill set is learning how to use the four primary ethical perspectives that are used in decision making. These perspectives are called the Four Ethical Lenses. The second skill is learning to use a practical and repeatable decision-making method called the Baird Decision Model. As we become adults‚ one of our primary responsibilities is to decide what values and ethical priorities are the most important to us. The ethical game simulation assist with that. Mysterious

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    T$ HU4640 3/29/14 Unit 1 Assignment 3 Would You Throw the Switch In reading the Ethics problem box regarding the Trolley Problem I will attempt to answer the question of would I throw the switch. I have had the chance to research different profiles to try and answer this question. The first profile is Ayn Rand. I don’t think that she would have thrown the switch base off her theory about the “virtue of selfishness”. Her theory promotes the philosophy of Individualism. Individualism states

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    Situation 1: Adapted from WAFBLA “Everyone Else Does It!” Ethics Project You have been struggling in your Engineering Models class. The content does not come easily‚ so you have put in countless hours to understand and do the assignments. There is another student who breezes through the assignments‚ getting high marks for the work he turns in. You know for a fact that he has used his college-aged cousin to do some of the assignments for him. You don’t know how many assignments were turned in this

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    Federal Charter. [Online] Available at: http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/federal-charter [Accessed 8 December 2013]. AUDI‚ R. (2007). Can Utilitarianism Be Distributive? Maximization and Distribution As Criteria In Managerial Decision. Business Ethics Quarterly. 17(4). pp.593-611. BARNETT II‚ W.B.‚ SALIBA‚ M. & WALKER‚ D. (2001). A Free Market in Kidneys: Efficient and Equitable. The Independent Review. 5(3). pp.373-385. BENNER‚ K. (2008). Did Madoff act alone? [Online] Available at: http://money

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    Introduction According to the article‚ Rhino poaching is in no way shown as moral. The ethical issues I see are that people are ignoring the fact that this horrible act is occurring and many people who do know about it won’t do anything about it‚ but are able to waste time watching pointless videos. The You Tube interventions took a moral approach to help with the petition. Although some were offended‚ the majority signed the petition and became more aware of the world around them. Utilitarianism

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    shootings are brought on by people seeking to die. -Evaluate the moral permissibility of “suicide by cop” -To what extent is a police officer morally obligated to assess whether a person he or she shoots actually wants to be killed? Virtue Ethics Aristotle’s theory of moral virtue categorizes the pursuit of happiness as a process that is achieved by pursuing real goods in a morally correct way. It is a mean between two vices (excess & defect). Our actions are voluntary and the product of

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    that make up the world of an individual or corporate life. Specifically‚ Contemporary Rhetorical Theory offers a way to understand the communicative process and what the communicative process is. Contemporary Rhetoric itself is not communication - rather‚ it provides important aspects into understanding what communication is; rhetoric is praxis. “Praxis is when theory and action are combined…” (Farrell‚ 1999). Contemporary Rhetorical Theory establishes theoretical assumptions of human society and

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    for ethics and social ethics. Introduction: Explorations of the gap individual and social ethics and attempts to bridge this gap‚ have resulted in either detailed philosophical abstraction (Mukerjee 1950) or proposals to measure the subjective potential between impartiality and utilitarianism (Mongin‚ 2001). One phenomenon that occurs in this cleft which may explain individual and social ethical thinking and decision making is that of compassion. This essay will briefly describe ethics and

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    SE 571—Christian Ethics and Social Issues Patrick T. Smith‚ Course Instructor Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Fall Semester 2011 Friday Sessions‚ 6:00-10:00 PM; Saturday Sessions‚ 9:00-4:30 PM Email: ptsmith@gcts.edu Phone: 978-646-4120 COURSE SYLLABUS Course Description This course is a study of the interaction between Christian ethics and social issues. Attention is given to biblical‚ theological and philosophical perspectives on select contemporary social issues facing the church

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    Deontological Ethics in Location-based Social Media There are so many location aware applications on my “smart” phone; I do not know how I could have lived without these features. There are applications that tell me where is the closes gym that I am a member of. There are applications that give me information on the weather of the current city. There are even applications that will locate the closest “driver” to taxi me wherever I want to go. And of course‚ all these can be shared on facebook

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