Lin is involved in a complicated case of plagiarism and is trying to make heads and tails of the ethics. She gets the facts about the situation and asks relevant legal and lay people about it. She then evaluates which option would treat the different parties in the most equal way and considers all solution options. Finally, she carefully implements her decision and reflects on its consequences. Which would be the BEST way for Lin to make a perfectly balanced ethical decision?

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Andres Cannon

Social Studies

31 January, 00:51

Lin is involved in a complicated case of plagiarism and is trying to make heads and tails of the ethics. She gets the facts about the situation and asks relevant legal and lay people about it. She then evaluates which option would treat the different parties in the most equal way and considers all solution options. Finally, she carefully implements her decision and reflects on its consequences. Which would be the BEST way for Lin to make a perfectly balanced ethical decision?

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Lizbeth Braun · Answer 1

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A. Lin asks relevant legal and lay people about facts, recognizes that it is a problem of ethical nature, and evaluates which options treat parties in the most equal way. She then considers all solution options and carefully implements her decision.

B. Lin asks relevant legal and lay people about facts, and then evaluates which options best serve the community. She then considers all solution options, carefully implements her decision, and reflects on its consequences.

C. Lin asks relevant legal and lay people about facts, and then evaluates which options do the most good and the least harm. She then considers all solution options, carefully implements her decision, and reflects on its consequences.

D. Lin asks relevant legal and lay people about facts, recognizes that it is a problem of an ethical nature, and evaluates which options treat parties in the most equal way. She then considers all solution options and carefully implements her decision and reflects on its consequences.

Answer:

Option D, Lin asks relevant legal and lay people about facts, recognizes that it is a problem of an ethical nature, and evaluates which options treat parties in the most equal way. She then considers all solution options and carefully implements her decision and reflects on its consequences.

Explanation:

Ethical decision-making relates to the assessment and choosing of solutions in a manner that is consistent with ethical principles. For ethical decisions, unethical alternatives must be viewed and discarded and the best ethical choice must be chosen.

The ethical choice is one of how one responds to purely comfort or utility to a given scenario based on "good / right" and "bad / bad" principles.

For example, think of a dinner and there comes in an unbelievably loud and disgusting guy who disturbs everyone's dinner.