Ethical Dilemmas Flashcards
1
Q
Double Bind
A
conflicting requirements ensure the victum is automatically wrong (damned if you do/ damned if you don’t)
2
Q
Morton’s Fork
A
choices would yield equivalent undesirable results
3
Q
Ethical Dilemma
A
chioce between ethical imperatives
4
Q
Extortion
A
pay, or not pay (pay tuition and stay, or leave)
5
Q
Fairness Dilemma
A
groups faced with how to share (ex. resources)
6
Q
Hobson’s Choice
A
“take it or leave it”
7
Q
Samaritan
A
choice between charity and withholding, to permit dependence
8
Q
Sophoie’s Choice
A
choice between two people/things resulting in the death of the unchosen
9
Q
Zugzwang
A
(chess) ‘compelled to move’; one must move and incur harm when one would prefer to do nothing. moving = weaker position but you HAVE to move.
