Thus, the Eichmann trial serves as precedent for all who would defend themselves with the statement "I was only doing my duty." It is for this reason that the militaries of free nations around the world do not require soldiers to carry out orders that are unlawful or immoral. Hannah Arendt ends her book with the phrase "The Banality of Evil...
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Thus, the Eichmann trial serves as precedent for all who would defend themselves with the statement "I was only doing my duty." It is for this reason that the militaries of free nations around the world do not require soldiers to carry out orders that are unlawful or immoral. Hannah Arendt ends her book with the phrase "The Banality of Evil...
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What would satisfactory moral theory be like? Deontology can be looked at as a generally flexible moral theory that allows for self-interpretation but like all others theories studied thus far, there are arguments one can make against its reasoning...	5 / 1228
The Deontology Theory: A Conceptual Perspective As, you can see from this medical example it is important to doctors to practice the principles of deontology because killing that healthy man to possible save for others would not have been morally responsible or ethical...	3 / 732
Deontological Ethics But hybrid views are possible. An indirect consequentialist, for instance, might argue that one ought to decide what is right as though one were bound by agent-relative constraints, since if everyone made decisions in this way it would bring about the most overall good...	4 / 879
What factors must be considered when making moral decisions? The way you achieve something is just as important as the outcome itself. For example they believe murder is wrong in every circumstance. For example in abortion, there is nothing to justify killing an unborn human no matter what the outcome, as even the very act of murder is evil...	3 / 682