QUESTION : At this point in the Coronavirus Pandemic lockdown response, is it time to open businesses to regular business practices?

*using the sheet attached, identify AT LEAST 3 ethical concepts that may be in conflict in making this decision.

ETHICS "CHEAT SHEET" -- Traditional concepts Guidance Focus Questions Strength & Weaknesses Name Text Duty Basic duties to self & The duties others Clear guidance but inflexible Ch 2 Obligations: To whom What are Against each other Does everyone have an equal chance unless differences justified? Fairness Ch 2 Equals equally; Resist unequals unequally prejudice Promises 'fairness' but may be difficult to implement Non-consequential Kant Ch 2 Basic duties to self & Universal and is solution Clear guidance but others others as ends universalizable? inflexible in special cases Not treating others as a means? Maximize freedom Individual's Does what I want Allows individuality but basic rights impinge on the basic does little to resolve freedoms of others? conflicts Respect others' rights Rights Ch 2 Egoism Ch 3 Increase individual My desires and what makes me happiness welfare happy over the long term? Good for short term individual needs but does not help society living together Altruism Ch 3 Consequential Increase happiness Others desires What makes others Others benefit buy of others and welfare happy over the long difficult to justify term? devaluing self. Ch 3 Utilitarianism Increase happiness Others desires What brings greatest General welfare served, of community & welfare as happiness to greatest but individual injustices an aggregate number? may persist ETHICS "CHEAT SHEET" -- Cultural Relativism Name Guidance Focus Questions Strengths & Moral Text Weaknesses Relationship Eternal Return Be self Consider What would Maximizes abandons Ch 4 eternal do if this is authenticity but no return repeated specific forever? recommendations Cultural Ethics Local Learn local What do the Helps you fit in but Community customs and customs locals do little ethical related only practices improvement Virtue Ethics Develop Practice Am I acting with Flexibility but little Adopts moral Ch 4 good moral virtues integrity? guidance character character Discourse Solutions to Talk: What do you Broad range of Fabricates new Ch 4 Ethics moral consensual think? solutions but requires rules dilemmas agreement process each time Ch 4 Ch 4 Ethics of Care Nurture and Respond to protect needs of immediate those close relationships What promotes Humanizes morality harmonious but risks tribalism relationships Replaces with loyalty to 'tribe