DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 2 Dealing With Emergencies and Outcomes

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DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 2 Dealing With
Emergencies and Outcomes

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• ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 2 Dealing With Emergencies and
  Outcomes
• Chapter 9 of our text includes the terrorism
  situation at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and it
  needs to be read before engaging this discussion.
• The principle of utility involves maximizing
  happiness as a desirable outcome of decisions.
  Although it does not get directly said, there is
  an inverse intention to

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• minimize the undesirable outcome of disaster.
  Utilitarian decisions are directed toward
  outcomesthat is, the consequences of decisions.
• The Olympic hostage situation was a high-tension
  moment, full of dangerous surprises and
  strategies to deal with the situation that did
  not work out for the best. Among the strategies
  was the idea to kill the leader of the terrorists
  so as to disrupt the terrorist plot and to allow
  a good outcome in which the
• hostages would be saved. In the situation it was
  also entirely possible that a terrible outcome
  might occur in which all would die. The situation
  was an emergency.
• The German legal system might eventually take the
  terrorists and their leader to trial, but first
  there was the need to end the hostage situation.
  The account in our text ends with, But it was
  the lesser of two evils.
• As utilitarian ethicists this week, how shall we
  reason through to the decision of the law
  enforcement authorities at the 1972 Munich
  Olympics?
• call you?
• 3.    What ethics are you using if you just "look
  the other way" and let it happen?