Consequentialist Normative Theory

Ethics is a set of moral principle to help people to figure out what action is right or wrong. Business ethics is every single company or business need to involved especially any business want to successful, it is a set of regulation about how a business conduct themselves legally and humanely. Moral dilemma is a problem that we need to solve usually in daily live, it means a situation has two options need to make a choice either one. Ethical theory has separate into two section there are descriptive and normative. Descriptive is describe the ethical phenomena and study on “how people do behave?” therefore normative is help human begin to distinguish the rightness and wrongness of an action and study on “how people ought to behave”. Consequentialist …show more content…
The purpose of this theory is to help the human begin to figure out what action are right and wrong. “How ought/should people to behave?” and “What is the good life for people”, these questions that normative theories attempt to answer. It deals with what should people do and should not do like murder is wrong. Besides that, donate money to charity, helping the poverty, become a volunteer for helping the people who need help in Africa, all this act is good and kind but not ethically mandatory. When doing a good act or activity must come from your heart, no other reason force you to …show more content…
It is more concern on outcome, consequence and result. The morally right action is the one that consequences will produce more benefit, see whether an action is right or wrong is depend on the result of the action, the action produces more good consequences the more right the act is. People don’t look into the act itself but look at the action’s result due to people choose an action and live as the maximize good consequences. A phrase saying that “the end justifies the mean” it tells us that if an action or goal is morally important enough, any method to achieve is acceptable even though the action is unethical. For example, a doctor has six patients, there are one patient had met accident and become brain dead another side there have five patients is witting organ donation like heart, kidney, stomach, liver, and lung for save their live and extend their lifetime, here has a decision doctor need to be made. Based on the consequentialist, the doctor should give up the patient who is brain-dead and save another five patients because the more good consequences the act produce the more right the act is, no matter what action depends on the outcome so doctors should save the five