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Can ethical questions be quantified? Describe an example or counterexample.
I don’t think that ethical questions can be quantified because there might be certain limitations to one’s ethics, but there are limitless events and scenarios that one has to apply those ethics to. We can classify which areas of ethics that the scenarios fall under but there are numerous considerations that need to be applied along with the ethics themselves. For example, we have a girl that has been out late past curfew. We can’t just say that ethics demands us to ground her for a week for coming home late. This problem can be categorized under breaking the curfew, but we have to consider why she was late. She had to do a group project with her lab partner and she told you about it, but it lastest longer than expected because of a few minor setbacks and the lab partners parent helped give her a ride home. We consider that we knew what she was doing, that she was chaperoned and in a safe environment, and that she actually finished the project despite the extra time that was needed to finish. We have to use reason to judge if her hardwork really deserves a grounding or does she get a pass because she was not doing anything inappropriate. The girl could have been grounded due to the ethical standards of the parents, but they are just standards and rules that can bend to accomodate unexpected events such as mistakes and mistaken information.
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