Ethics Principles and Difficult Choices

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Ethics Principles and Difficult Choices

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1. Principles, fairness and conduct (20 entries)
  1. principled stance
  2. act in good faith
  3. fairness
  4. principled
  5. paternalistic
  6. recklessness
  7. permissive
  8. moral high ground
  9. prudent
  10. redeeming quality
  11. premeditated
  12. moral blind spot
  13. resolute
  14. resist easy categorisation
  15. unsentimental
  16. withhold judgement
  17. sportsmanship
  18. foul
  19. steadfast
  20. zealous
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2. Obligations and interests (20 entries)
  1. disclosure
  2. protect someone's autonomy
  3. declare an interest
  4. honour a commitment
  5. undue influence
  6. as appropriate
  7. undertake to
  8. sit uneasily with
  9. open to question
  10. withhold endorsement
  11. in mitigation
  12. defer to
  13. attribute good intentions
  14. consent
  15. take exception to
  16. extenuating circumstances
  17. on closer inspection
  18. explicit obligation
  19. express misgivings
  20. intervene discreetly
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3. Competing values (20 entries)
  1. reconcile competing values
  2. ethical dilemma
  3. weigh one duty against another
  4. incompatibility
  5. choose the lesser evil
  6. difficult precedent
  7. outweigh
  8. individual liberty
  9. distribution of costs
  10. ethical tension
  11. principled disagreement
  12. rationalisation
  13. partisanship
  14. conflicted
  15. question the premise
  16. challenge the premise
  17. avoid false balance
  18. in fairness to
  19. boundary
  20. shift the burden
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4. Justification and accountability (20 entries)
  1. burden of justification
  2. defensible
  3. arbitrary
  4. warranted
  5. answerable to
  6. account for a decision
  7. procedural fairness
  8. justify an exception
  9. transparency requirement
  10. independent scrutiny
  11. mitigating factor
  12. evidence base
  13. constrain choice
  14. unintended precedent
  15. command consent
  16. subtle coercion
  17. indefensible
  18. implicit threat
  19. tacit approval
  20. qualified approval
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5. Ethical consequences (20 entries)
  1. reputational damage
  2. redress
  3. remedy
  4. vulnerability
  5. set a precedent
  6. restitution
  7. repair a breach
  8. stigma
  9. complicit
  10. culpable
  11. remorse
  12. settle a score
  13. harassment
  14. vindicate yourself
  15. lose face
  16. well-intentioned
  17. aggrieved
  18. tit-for-tat
  19. bereavement
  20. a thousand apologies
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