Marta is applying for financial analyst positions after having stayed at home to care for her aging
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Marta is applying for financial analyst positions after having stayed at home to care for her aging mother for four years. She has not received any interviews yet and is feeling frustrated, so she puts a fake employer on her resume to make it look like she's only stopped working for two years.
How would a virtue ethicist evaluate this decision?
Marta is acting unethically because she is not expressing the quality of honesty.
Marta is acting unethically because there may be another, betterqualified candidate who could be harmed by her lie.
Marta is acting unethically because if everyone lied on their resumes, no one would be able to believe anyone's resume.
Marta is acting unethically because, while it may end well for her if she gets the job, lying has a social cost that exceeds her personal benefit.
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