Ethics

Ethics

 Ethics and laws are there to help everyone make the right choice and follow the right laws, but are all laws ethical? There are many situations that make it impossible to know which solutions is correct. Even when all the laws are followed the situation might seem unfair to many involved as well as just to the rest. A situation of a married couple, addicted to drugs, unable to take care of their infant daughter who was taken away and put into foster care and then nine years later after rehabilitation and being clean the biological parents get their now nine year old daughter back even though she did not want to come back. She considered her foster parents to be her loving family. The court has decided according to the rules it is the biological parent’s right to be able to raise their daughter. Is that ethical? Does the ethics support the law?
Looking at this situation is not easy considering all the factors that are in it especially the long time on nine years. In order to solve a problem many things have to be considered and having theories to follow helps. According to the three primary school of ethics, ends-based theory emphasizes the good that result from human actions: the pleasure, wealth, or happiness that might come about as a consequence of our individual actions or social policies (lecture). Ends-based theory is a theory based on ends justify the means. This is a way of looking ahead of what one will have after the decision is made. This theory helps the person visualize the end achievement. To these parents rehabilitation was needed in order to get their daughter back. They did what they knew needed to be done and saw the results.
On the other hand a care-based theory could have been used as well and proved their point or a different point of view. Care-based theory ask you to empathize with others by making decisions based on what you would wish done for yourself if in the same circumstances as the people who will be impacted by your...

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