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Discussion points
Identify conflicting moral reasons for this ethical dilemma
E. g. Conflicting responsibilities, rights, consequences, care relationships, ideals and virtues
Moral reasons include honesty, fairness, integrity, respect, compassion, loyalty etc.
Identify factual information pertinent to the dilemma
Identify realistic courses of action (possible decisions)
Be creative, but realistic
Think of this as a
pretest
Moral reasons include honesty, fairness, integrity, respect, compassion, loyalty etc.
4 sick babies - sacrifice 1 to save the rest?
Lack of complete honesty to parents - lack of respect of autonomy for the parents
Fair to hide from parents?
Need to be both upfront but also truthful about the impact after
Each decision has ramifications
Baby has right to live, diminished autonomy, right to the best care
Human rights are most
important and take priority over other rights
For example, right to life takes priority over right not to be lied to
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETroXvRFoKY
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS-tshQ9sys
2:20 for explanation of rights
Human rights are intuitively obvious (self evident)
Rights ethics establishes individuals as moral equals
[Declaration of Independence
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
First sentence - laws of nature and nature's God
Self
evident truths - all men created equal, endowed with certain unalienable rights (life, lib, pursuit..), ; don't interfere with other's abilities to pursuit their own happiness
Happiness is not hedonism - technically in this time right to property or to use time, talent, and resources that bring most satisfaction and would impacts family etc the most
Purpose of government - reason for government's existence is to secure these rights
Is equality missing? Could be included in liberty,
controversial despite saying all men created equal in document]
co-operation
self-discipline
excellence
consideration
honesty
respect
creativity
independence, courtesy, trust, kindness, courage, perseverance, enthusiasm, detachment, unity, humility, commitment, patience, flexibility, responsibility, truthfulness, determination
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