The Engaged Professional

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The Engaged Professional

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The overarching ethical issue within the Helping Molly scenario that will be analysed is the discrimination against a person based on their weight with an underlying issue of whether or not it is ethical to disregard a person due to their appearance in order to maximise financial gains. This is apparent within the scenario when McJacks tries to apply the condition of dropping Molly from any advertising photos due to her ‘big build’ and concern of negative publicity regarding the company image.

The ethical frameworks of Non Consequentialism, Consequentialism, Virtue and Care will be applied to analyse this scenario.

Non Consequentialism is an action based perspective considering acts are right or wrong in relation to the rules or principles surrounding the act disregarding any following consequences (Burgh, Field, & Freakley, 2006). The most recognized version was developed by Kant and includes the idea that moral is to be based upon what a reasonable human would do (Preston, Sampford, & Connors, 2002). Natural rights are the belief that everybody has particular basic rights that nobody can violate. Rousseau’s (Jouvenet, 1984) Principles of Social Contracts are socially developed formal and/or informal rules and principles that are active yet can be changed within communities. Both are sub categories of Non Consequentialism along with Divine Command which calls for a deity or spiritual beliefs that identify the right or wrong ways a person may live their life however, I am assuming that Divine Command is not applicable to this situation. The final sub category is Deontology this is the idea that acts are classed as right or wrong with the consideration of both w...

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