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.
-The most common form of stupid obedience in professional ethics is

• A) reading a code of ethics as if each rule were dependent of the others.
• B) reading a code of ethics as if each rule were independent of the others.
• C) to blame oneself rather than a state of affairs.
• D) properly understanding and following the rules.