I can think of many situations in which moral principles conflict, many of which I deal daily at work. Before going into a specific situation, I think that it is important to understand three ethical theories from chapter 2: utilitarianism, deontology, and moral particularism. Utilitarianism says that” No action is, in itself, either good or bad. Utilitarians hold that the only factors that make actions good or bad are the outcomes, or end results, that are derived from them” (Burkhardt, 2014, p.40). One problem that presents with this theory is that it tends to neglect the minorities under which it is practiced because for an action to be considered “good” it must benefit the majority of people effected by it. Deontology on the other hand
