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Applied Ethics · Chapter 1

Three Lenses on One Case

Students want to be told which theory is correct so they can stop worrying. Resist that. Mature moral reasoning runs a case past several frames and pays attention when they converge or diverge. Pick a case, then turn the numbers up: watch which verdicts move with the arithmetic and which flatly refuse to.

1 · Choose a case

2 · Turn the stakes up
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3 · Your call
Where you standMake a call and you will be told which lens you just sided with — and what that costs you.

Four verdicts — tap any to open the reasoning

The arithmetic against the constraint

Verdict strength against the size of the stakes A rising curve for the consequentialist verdict and a flat line for the deontological verdict, plotted as the number at stake increases. FOR AGAINST consequences duty stakes →