Ethics Scenarios

Assignment

Learning Team

Each team should respond in paragraph form to the questions that follow the scenarios presented below. Any disagreements or complications that occur within the team regarding the correct response should be noted in the Learning Team Reflection Worksheet for the week.

SCENARIOS

Duty-based (Deontological):

1.

Donna was wrong for setting rules for the team without any input from Michael. He is not going to follow the rules if there was no buy-in on the rules. Donna and Michael should renegotiate the rules together and come up with a set of rules with which both are comfortable. If that doesn't work, try to get another team member (or a member from another team) to mediate between the two.

2.

Stephanie should not lie for her teammates. If she believes strongly that lying is wrong then she should follow that. Her classmate had ample time to make arrangements before the class if she really was getting married.

Goal-based (Teleological):

1.

Corin's attitude is impacting the entire team. When it comes to team assignments, a team needs knowledge from everyone to finish the project. When he blows them off, the other team members have to pick up the slack and it makes it harder from them to complete the task.

2.

Yes, Darcie is acting on a goal-based ethic by giving up part of herself for the good of the whole team. She is adhering to the goal-based ethical theory of Utilitarianism or the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

Rights-Based:

1.

Jerry and Samantha's arguments fit into the rights-based ethical philosophy because the movie was censored by a local group, who do not make up the majority of the people in the community. Since rights-based ethics relies upon the majority of people in a community to agree on a specific behavior as acceptable or unacceptable,