Question 1

When examining the accepted steps in the Ethical Decision-making Process, you see that there is a difference between the relevant step to follow an ethical course of action and the final step to carry out the ethical decision. Required:

a) Discuss why this would be the case by way of an example, as it would have been thought that as the step to follow an ethical course of action is the 3rd step, already a significant amount of thought has gone into the decision-making process. Hence you would then expect the final step to implement the decision that has already been made would be very straightforward.

b) The first step in the Ethical Decision-making Process is to identify that an ethical situation arises provide an example of this identification process. For this question a total word count of approximately 75 words would be expected.