The argument could be made that, although knowledge of the ethical course of action is not evidence of an intention to act ethically, it is an essential prerequisite.
"Shelving hard decisions", he said, "is the least ethical course".
Pull the lever, you save the five, but kill the one: what is the ethical course of action?
When the client, against the attorney's advice, insists on testifying falsely, the ethical course to be pursued has not been fully settled.
Surely, some of them will conclude that the more ethical course would be to continue their work, even if they must turn to more radical methods like creating new embryos through what is called therapeutic cloning.
"While we strongly believe this was the right and ethical course of action, this did place additional, difficult burdens upon the newly merged organization at a critical juncture," Ms. Nunn wrote.
After much deliberation over what would constitute the most ethical course of action, Roth dismissed the advice of his lawyers and agreed to pay her a percentage of all the publishing income those songs had generated over the past 12 years.
Moral distress (MD) occurs when the health care provider feels certain of the ethical course of action but is constrained from taking that action.
But in the conduct of their research and in their assessment of applications, scientists and engineers demonstrate a clearly ethical course.
