A Restaurant Has Installed Microphones at Its Tables to Secretly

question 30

Multiple Choice

A restaurant has installed microphones at its tables to secretly record customer reactions to menu items so that the restaurant owner can know which entrees to raise prices on.Under which method of ethical reasoning is this approach considered ethical?

• A)Utility
• B)Justice
• C)Rights
• D)All of these methods are correct.
• E)It would not be considered ethical under any ethical reasoning framework.

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