Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing

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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.
-Whereas the standard theory focuses on the ___________, the complicity theory focuses on the whistleblower's own involvement in moral wrongdoing.

• A) employer's justification for wrongdoing
• B) employee's justification for complicity in wrongdoing
• C) prevention of harm
• D) obligation of those who are complicit in wrongdoing

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