This assignment presents you with the opportunity to apply your new knowledge about ethical decisionmaking by applying Kidder’s nine checkpoints to an ethical dilemma of your choosing in a 3-4-pagepaper.Step 1: Identify an ethical dilemma currently facing a community that you care about (Kiddercheckpoint #1 for ethical decision making).In your description, tell us who the actors are/who the problem belongs to (Kidder checkpoint#2) as well as some relevant facts about the dilemma itself (Kidder checkpoint #3).Step 2: Apply checkpoints #4-8 from Kidder’s nine checkpoints for ethical decision making.Explain how your dilemma passes the four right vs. wrong tests (Kidder checkpoint #4).Be sure to go beyond just explaining the situation and identify which of the right vs. rightparadigms you understand this dilemma to embody and tell us why you think that way (Kiddercheckpoint #5).Determine what a solution/resolution to your dilemma would look like using each of the threeways of thinking about ethical decision making (Kidder checkpoint #6) and explain each briefly.In addition to your explanations, you should note how the solutions/resolutions differ based onwhich of the three theories (ends based, rules based, care based) you use as the foundation aswell as what the three solutions/resolutions have in common.Now think outside of the box! Is there a fourth alternative, commonly referred to by Kidder asthe “trilemma”? If not, why? If so, what would that alternative look like briefly (Kiddercheckpoint #7).Finally, make your decision. Clearly explain the action that you would take or recommendothers take to solve/resolve this dilemma. Go into some detail here, identifying which of theways of thinking you ultimately chose. (Kidder checkpoint #8).Step 3: Reflect and revisit your decision (Kidder checkpoint #9 for ethical decision making).Considering what you now know about ethical decision making as well as your “why”justification for the appropriate right vs. right paradigm from Step 2, explain to us why youchose the action that you did. To the best of your ability, use the language of ethical decisionmaking utilized by Kidder.As you reflect, pay special attention to the three ways of thinking about ethical decision making(Kidder checkpoint #6). What made the theory you chose to use most attractive to you? Whatmade it the “best choice” for your dilemma? What does that theory leave out that the othertheories may include? Are there options beyond the three theories presented? What mightthey add to the way you consider the dilemma?
