A first-term junior senator has placed a bill before the Senate that promises to

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A first-term junior senator has placed a bill before the Senate that promises to correct tax inequities that affect thousands of workers. However, the bill is being held up in committee. The senior senator who serves as Sub-Committee Chairperson is responsible. The senator, however, has learned of a secret scandal in the

Chairperson’s personal life. The junior senator visits the Chairperson and tells him that unless the bill is released from committee, he will divulge the scandal to the press. The Chairperson then releases the bill from committee and it is passed—and becomes law.

Identify and tell what ethical philosophy the senior and junior senators are using, if any.

Now, use your ethical philosophy to analyze the situation. Explain how, using your philosophy, you would have solved this situation either the same way as the characters in the situation did, or differently. Why?

Explanation / Answer

Answer: Here the ethical philosophy is utilitaruan principle that looks for the benefit for the all. That is why the junior senator compelled the senior to provide benefit in terms of the new law to the masses and used threat as a weapont to make the senior work as per his own desires.

If I would have been in his situation I would have followed the same path. Afterall mass benefit is what is desired by all the public servants.

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