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Generate Candidate Values

Example: John's

1. Who Has An Ethical Stake In Your Decision?
   
   
   • Work out who the parties involved are
     
     
2. Bearing In Mind All These Parties What Ethical Values Are At Stake?
   
   
   • What do your emotional responses to the situation and decision, analysed earlier, suggest about what matters? Look back to the table listing your emotions and use these to generate ideas about what matters.
     
     
   • Do the parties involved have any important rights, duties, or responsibilities, or any important benefits or burdens at stake such as physical, social, emotional or financial goods?
     
     
   • Are there any important moral principles, such as fairness, at stake?
     
     
   • Imagine you have the power to put an ideal solution into place (ignore practical problems for now). What would it be? Why would this be a good solution - what are the values that are fulfilled if it is carried out?
     
     
   • What might the following say about what matters ?:
     • the parties involved (and people who care about them)
     • impartial, unbiased, observers
     • someone that you look up to and admire
       
       
   • What would a good person do in this situation?
     
     
   • What, if anything, does the law, codes of ethics, and best practice say should be done?

   
   

3. What Prudential Values Are At Stake? (*)
   
   
   
   • What initially seems to matter most to you in this situation?
     
     
   • What do your emotional responses to the situation and problem, analysed in stage 1, suggest about what matters? Look back to the table listing your emotions and use these to generate ideas about what matters.
     
     
   • Do you have any important rights, duties, or responsibilities, or any important benefits or burdens at stake such as physical, social, emotional or financial goods?
     
     
   • Looking from a different perspective, that of yourself in 5 years time, what else might matter? What about looking back in your rocking chair from your retirement?
     
     
   • What sort of person would you like to be in this situation?
     
     
   • Imagine that you have the power to put an ideal solution into place. What would it be? Why would this be a good solution - what are the values that are fulfilled if it is carried out?
     
     
   • What do you think a good and well-informed friend would advise you? What does this imply about what matters in the situation?

    

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Parties Involved

Candidate Values: