Hand's Role In Questioning Ethical Behavior

No. It was unethical for Hand to permanently delete Seed’s incriminating files. In choosing her course of action, Hand violated at least one of the tenets of the Principle of Respect for Persons: she did not show each and every person in her department the sympathetic consideration they deserved. By choosing to help Seed and delete all the incriminating files, she did not thoroughly consider the potential repercussions her actions could have on her co-workers, associated third parties, the Internal Affairs Department, and the Sheriff’s Department. Considering the ideal of honesty, Hand was not being truthful to others as she choose to deceive Internal Affairs of their suspensions by deleting the files. Further, Hand appears to have violated the ideal of prudence; she acted impulsively and with her emotions, thereby, not thoroughly thinking through the consequences. Hand also violated the ideal of fairness, as Hand did not act partiality and without bias. Hand appeared to also …show more content…
Ethical behavior, according to Utilitarians, is one in which provides the greatest advantage or pleasure to the greatest number of individuals. One should weigh and consider all parties affected by the action and calculate the pain and pleasure of everyone who is influenced; therefore, an individual should choose the action which produces the least amount of pain or maximizes the total amount of pleasure. Rule Utilitarian further accentuates this perspective by concentrating on the outcomes of the activity, looking at their potential long haul impact, and the point of reference, such a conduct would set. Therefore, Rule Utilitarian looks to expand the advantages to the most number of people over the longest period of time, so conduct that achieves that objective would therefore, be viewed as