This paper will analyze two out of the Three Primary Schools of Ethics. The theories used are the deontological and consequentialist.
In this circumstance the justice system resorted to the use of the deontological theory, or the rule-based thinking. This specific principle focuses on respecting the basic dignity of human beings, and simply doing the right thing in every situation. In this particular case, I have chosen to use the deontological and care based theories to come up with solutions.
Consequential theorists believe “the rightness or wrongness of actions is determined by the goodness or badness of their consequences. ”(Ruggiero, 2011, p.150). This basically means that based on your rating on the good or bad consequence scale, determines how right or wrong your actions are. My first solution to this problem came from this way of thinking, let the child say with the foster parents. Since the biological or “natural parents” were unable to take care of the child the first time, what is so different now? …show more content…
They are the ones that tend to ask, What if that were you? Would you react the same way if you were in that particular situation? My solution to the problem, using this way of thinking would be to let the child stay with the foster parents. My reasoning behind this would be because I would have taken the child’s and foster parents concerns and opinions into more consideration, for a number of reasons. For one the child doesn’t know her biological parents, so how could she be comfortable leaving the foster parents who she has known for her whole life to go live with some strangers. Secondly, I put myself into the foster parents shoes’: raising this child as my own from an infant, and then the birth parents, who originally gave the child away because of their addiction, comes back and tries to obtain custody again, I would be upset due to the fact that you are attempting to take a “my
In this circumstance the justice system resorted to the use of the deontological theory, or the rule-based thinking. This specific principle focuses on respecting the basic dignity of human beings, and simply doing the right thing in every situation. In this particular case, I have chosen to use the deontological and care based theories to come up with solutions.
Consequential theorists believe “the rightness or wrongness of actions is determined by the goodness or badness of their consequences. ”(Ruggiero, 2011, p.150). This basically means that based on your rating on the good or bad consequence scale, determines how right or wrong your actions are. My first solution to this problem came from this way of thinking, let the child say with the foster parents. Since the biological or “natural parents” were unable to take care of the child the first time, what is so different now? …show more content…
They are the ones that tend to ask, What if that were you? Would you react the same way if you were in that particular situation? My solution to the problem, using this way of thinking would be to let the child stay with the foster parents. My reasoning behind this would be because I would have taken the child’s and foster parents concerns and opinions into more consideration, for a number of reasons. For one the child doesn’t know her biological parents, so how could she be comfortable leaving the foster parents who she has known for her whole life to go live with some strangers. Secondly, I put myself into the foster parents shoes’: raising this child as my own from an infant, and then the birth parents, who originally gave the child away because of their addiction, comes back and tries to obtain custody again, I would be upset due to the fact that you are attempting to take a “my