ASSIGNMENT | Summarize the issue and explain alternative views about its resolution.

Write a paper in which you explain your own basis for making ethical decisions. You are welcome to employ what you have learned from your study of traditional approaches, but you may also develop your own distinctive approach. In either case, explain in some detail exactly what foundation and process you rely on for choosing the right course of action, and support your statements with research from professional or scholarly resources.
As part of your paper, select a contemporary ethical issue about which you have strong convictions. It may be a social issue—such as environmental ethics, marriage equality, or bioethics—or a more personal issue—sexual morality, familial obligations, or care for the elderly, for example. The choice is up to you, but make it something you care about enough to make this project interesting and worthwhile. Address the following in regard to your chosen ethical issue:
• Summarize the issue and explain alternative views about its resolution.
• Assess both sides of the issue, critically analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• Finally, show how and why your own position is correct. Think of this as an opportunity to persuade potential opponents of the reasonableness of your view.
I will attach the complete assignment instructions and highlight key elements as well as the grading rubric.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Ethics offers a set of behavioral principles that help humans determine how to conduct themselves under different circumstances. In a sense, it can be claimed that ethics is all about coming up with choices that are supported by reasonable justifications. Ethics is often confused or conflated with other means of making decisions including law and religion. Ethical aspects should characterize an excellent legal system, but the law often creates a precedent in attempting to dictate universal regulations, and is, therefore, unable to respond to individual contexts. Although many religions advocate ethical choices, sometimes they fail to address the full range of moral decisions encountered by humanity (Sheperis, Henning & Kocet, 2015). Personally, I make decisions based on three ethical frameworks: future implications, personal duty, and virtue. With regard to future implications,my focus is always on the consequences of the alternative courses of action, bearing in mind the stakeholders who might be affected directly or indirectly by my choices. I seek to understand…