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Atomic Bomb and Decision Making

"To achieve the desired goals or maximize utility, an actor must choose among certain alternatives" (Model Theory, 2002). The alt...

Is Shell an Ethical Company?

and BBC Wildlife Magazine has also been argued as hypocritical, hiding the damage that the company causes to wildlife (M2 PressWIR...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

Report of Actual Ethical Cases

Anyone working in any area of mental health or social services faces ethical challenges and dilemmas on a regular basis and it is ...

The Film The Glass Shield and Decision Making

In five pages a protagonist's difficult decisions are examined within the context of the 1994 movie with an analysis of ethical co...

Google in China

Googles own definition of acceptability has been difficult in China. Google resisted Chinese censorship for some time, making a C...

FDI Influences in India and Iraq

reduce smoking in India (Lamont and Yuk, 2010). However, this has been a controversial decision, not only was cigarette manufactu...

Method of Inquiry; Using a Code of Ethics to Help with Decision-Making

philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to th...

Medical Futility And Ethics

2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...

Organizational Behavior, Technology, and Ethics

boiled. Whether this is an observation of something true is debatable, but whether it physically occurs or not, it is useful in m...

Analyzing the Film Adaptation of The Rainmaker by John Grisham

tradition of good vs. evil, the inexperienced novice is cast in the role of David facing off against Goliath, the legal dream team...

Selecting Between 2 Acceptable and 'Good' Decisions

be seen as a defining moment; the choosing between right and right. There may be several aspects that are considered. Firstly, the...

Reactions to Artical on Moral Decision-Making

Valasquez, Andre, Shanks, & Meyer, M. J. wrote an article entitled "Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision Making" in ...

Business Ethics

This report focuses on one aspect of business ethics that involves decision making. Several issues are discussed such as why ethic...

A 7-Step Path in Making an Ethical Decision

This essay discusses a scenario involving an ethical dilemma, and then relates the steps taken in making an ethical decision. Thre...

Something is Rotten in Hondo; An Ethical Case Study

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

Ethics and San Diego Utility

& Electric (SDG&E) and two other lines touched each other. This resulted in a huge fire in the area (Spagat, 2009). Subsequently, ...

Ethics Issues of the Caltex Plant in South Africa

become complex, as the firm has a duty to the shareholders to undertake business to create profit, potential losses and lost oppor...

Human Service Workers and Ethical Decisions' Guidelines

someone in human services. After all, the most fundamental component of human services work is the fact that it is grounded in mor...

The Process of Decision Making

factual data to meet a set goal or objective. There is a very basic concept to this, which is the company is at A, they want to g...

Function of Information Technology in Decision Making

This informative research paper first describes the decision making process and then how information technology (IT) fits into thi...

Community Policing and Ethics

In twelve pages community policing is considered from an ethical perspective in terms of virtue, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism wi...

Responsibility According to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

Juvenile Justice and Morality

In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...

Utilitarianism, Virtue, and Ethics

In six pages this paper considers relatives of people suffering from debilitative diseases such as Alzheimer's and concludes that ...

Considerations Regarding Investment Strategy Decisions

In five pages this paper applies Philip Fisher's decisions to investment strategy decisions considerations. Five sources are list...

Ethics in Health Care

that birth occurs when a woman is in the youthful childbearing years. A student asks: " Should age be factor in permitting pregnan...

Utilitarianism

with good and bad (Boeree). An example of this is when people ask one another for advice (Boeree). Egoism is another premise. It d...