QUESTION 20

Sally, a bartender, received a call at work that her daughter was injured and was being taken to the emergency room. She knows she will have to pay a deductible in the amount of $100 for her daughters care in the emergency room, and contemplates stealing a $100 bill from the cash register of the restaurant where she works in order to pay the deductible. If Sally uses a utilitarian model to evaluate her plan, she will

	a.	Compare the number of people that will benefit from the action (i.e., her daughter, herself and possibly the emergency room doctor) to the number of people that will be negatively impacted by the action (i.e., the restaurant owner).
	b.	Consider what would happen if every restaurant employee stole money from the cash register to pay for personal expenses.
	c.	Consider whether the Ten Commandments would direct her not to take the money.
	d.	Compare the number of people that will benefit from the action (i.e., her daughter, herself and possibly the emergency room doctor) to the number of people that will be negatively impacted by the action (i.e., the restaurant owner), along with an assessment of the significance of the relative benefits. Additionally, she will look broadly at who should be included in the cost-benefit analysis that she engages in.