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ES3.5 Identifying and evaluating possible courses of action.
Often, ethical
mistakes are made more from a failure of imagination rather than a failure of moral
principle. If you simply cannot think of alternative courses of action, then you are left
with little choice. An important practical aspect of ethical reasoning involves determining
if all the available options have been exhausted. Many students will look at a situation
and assume that a few obvious and often dichotomous choices are the only choices. Practice
in recognizing a range of options can give students insight to think about choices.
Practice in evaluating options they have generated can provide students with the confidence
they will need to negotiate solutions in actual situations.
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