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.