Discuss the text's example of confronting a drunk driving friend while on duty. What would you do? What should you do? Apply Kant, Mill, and our ethic to live by to the dilemma presented to you by the competing duties to "stick by a friend" and "to apply the law justly."
What will be an ideal response?
Do you arrest? Drive him home? Call a friend? Ethical formalism says you enforce the law, while utilitarianism says look to the long-term implications of your actions.
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What will be an ideal response?
Despite inadequate testing, H.R. Robins marketed a product that caused death, birth defects, miscarriages, and blindness in infants. The product was:
A. intrauterine birth control device. B. diaphragm. C. birth control pills. D. birth control patch.
A steady yellow light is...
a. a warning alerting the operator to proceed cautiously. b. A warning to vehicular traffic that the related green movement is being terminated and that a red light will soon be exhibited. c. An indication that the operator must bring the vehicle to a full stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection. d. A warning that the operator may not enter the intersection e. None of the above