Top 10 Questions to Answer Before Accepting
Any Judgment or Resolution of a Morally Problematic Case
- What ethical
issues are
relevant to the case? - state 2 but you must specify one as
primary
- Which ethical values must one presume
to decide what one should or should not do in this case? - state
3
- Who are primary stakeholders? - identify
2
- What alleged facts are relevant
to a resolution of the primary issue? - state 2
- What other assumptions (background beliefs, definitions, etc.)
are required to resolve the case? - state 2
- What ethical principles must
one use to decide what course of action to choose? - state
2
- What options are there (i.e., actions
doable and consistent with relevant ethical concerns)? - state
3
- What results are most likely to
follow from each option? - state 1 likely result
of each option cited above
- Which specific action (from among options described in 7) should
have been taken by the primary agent(s) in this case? - state which
option the moral agent(s) you are judging should have taken and say briefly
why
- What ethical judgment - based on the ethical principles in (6)
- do you make? - state it precisely then produce a standard
form argument that justifies accepting it, make sure that
it is about the issue you select as primary in (1)