Michael Davis | Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules

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Michael Davis | Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?
Davis criticizes the view that professional responsibility goes beyond merely following the rules of one's code of ethics by necessarily involving certain character virtues. Rather, if a code of ethics is well-written, following these rules means that a professional is acting responsibly. He discusses seven different interpretations of "just following the rules": blind obedience, strict obedience, malicious obedience, negligent obedience, accidental obedience, stupid obedience, concluding with a positive discussion of interpretative obedience.
-Davis criticizes the view that

• A) professional responsibility involves moral choices and is therefore more open-ended than legalism.
• B) following the rules of a well-written code of ethics means that a professional is acting responsibly.
• C) legalism requires the integration of certain character virtues.
• D) professional responsibility and following the rules amount to the same thing.

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