Explain (and illustrate) two ways in which ethical reasoning requires us to be consistent

What will be an ideal response?


ANS:
One respect in which ethics requires us to be consistent is in the way we apply moral principles. If, in the context of debating health care policy, we maintain that society shouldn't spend scarce resources on care for the elderly, then we should be willing to make the same judgment when it is our loved one whose life is at stake.

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