Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing

question 53

Multiple Choice

Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing
Davis presents the standard theory of whistleblowing and what constitutes circumstances in which whistleblowing is morally required of an employee. Three paradoxes follow from the standard theory (of burden, of missing harm, of failure) , to which Davis responds with a complicity theory that avoids all of them. He uses the example of the Challenger in demonstrating a test of the latter.
-The paradox of ___________, for Davis, shows that the history of whistleblowing virtually rules out the moral justification of whistleblowing.

• A) burden
• B) missing harm
• C) moral wrong
• D) failure

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