What factors must be considered when making moral decisions?
There are a variety of factors, which need to be considered when making moral decisions.
Everyday we have to make decisions, some are hard and some are easy. When we are talking about moral decisions we are talking about what actions are right and what are wrong. Morality is about actions and the consequences made by actions, motives and our human nature.
There are different ways in looking at making moral decisions, 2 main ethical systems are teleology' and deontology'.
Teleological ethics is the belief that a moral decision is right if the outcome is good. In other words the ends justify the means'. A teleological theory maintains that the rightness or wrongness of an action is decided by the consequences that it produces. So even if someone does something bad, in order for the outcome to be good it is seen as ok. The action may not be good in itself but good by virtue of the result. For example if a......
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