- specify what the ethical question is
- stakeholders: who is going to be impacted by your decision
- NOTE: we are not concerned about how stakeholders are affected at this point
- evaluate your options using 3 perspectives
- consequence perspective: how each stakeholder will be affected by an action as well as to comparing the extent that each stakeholder is affected
- intent perspective: what is the goal of the person making the decison
- NOTE: intent is considered to be independent from outcome
- character perspective: would a moral take this action
- compare the three perspectives to see if they match
- if the 3 match, then the action is likely to be ethical
- if one of them does not the correlate, the action is ethically ambiguous and should be reconsidered
- decisively follow through with the action if you are comfortable with how the perspectives correlate
Van Den Einde, Lelli. "Ethics." Introduction
to Structures and Design. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2013. N. pag.
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