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Applied Ethics · Chapter 10

The Whistleblowing Gate

Richard De George separates two questions students usually collapse: when is going outside the chain of command permitted, and when does it become required? Load a case, satisfy the conditions one at a time, then decide what you will actually do — and see what it cost the people who did it.

1 · Load a case

2 · De George’s conditions — tick what is true
3 · Try a rival theory
4 · How many times have you raised it and been overruled?
2times
5 · What will you do?

The gate

Not yet
Permitted
Obligatory
Moral distress and accumulating residue