Which Ethical Principle States That, When Confronted with an Ethical

question 51

Multiple Choice

Which ethical principle states that, when confronted with an ethical dilemma, individuals should take the action that achieves the greater value for all of society?

• A) the Golden Rule
• B) Risk Aversion
• C) the Collective Utilitarian principle
• D) the Social Contract Rule

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Definitions:

Truth Values

Assignments of factuality, indicating the veracity of a statement, with the primary values being true and false.

Truth Table

A tabular representation used in logic to show the truth value of a compound statement for all possible truth values of its components.

Truth Value

The truth or falsity of a proposition.

Disjunction

A logical operation that combines two statements in such a way that the compound statement is true if at least one of the statements is true.