Wendy McNeil is a varsity track athlete and the volunteer head coach of a pre-te

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Wendy McNeil is a varsity track athlete and the volunteer head coach of a pre-teen track team (10-12-year old children) in a highly successful regional club. Her team practices in the same stadium and at the same time as Coach Smith's nationally successful under-18 soccer team. Over the course of the scason, Coach McNeil sees Coach Smith use obscene and abusive language with his athletes, kick their dufle bags, and throw fits of anger when they don't meet his expectations. 1· Coach McNeil should report what she has seen to the director of the soceer club. Coach McNeil should ignore the situation because it's not her team. Coach McNeil should meet with Coach Smith to tell him that his players are intimidated and fearful. a. b. c. For each of the responses describe how they can be justified or rejected based upon Teleological or Deontological ethical theories (choose one perspective from each - for example utilitarianism and social contract or hedonism and intuitionism). 20 marks Choose one of 2 or 3 (10 marks): 2. Describe how your behavior would differ if you perceived a co-worker as: a. A means to an end b. An end in herself. Using Hodgkinson's Value Paradigm, how would you describe the rationale for valuing honesty at each level. 3.

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1) a) Deontological ethics focus primarily on adherence to independent moral rules/duties. In order to make correct moral choices, you have to understand what your moral duties are and what correct rules exist which regulate those duties.When you follow your duty you are behaving morally.

1)b) Ethical egoism in teological ethics is if an action is good if it produces or is likely to produce results that maximize the person’s self-interest as defined by him even at the expense of others. The coach didnt think about the students suffering here in this case because he didnt think abput them and didnt find any benfit if he reports to the concerned persons.

1) c) This is the case of utilitarianism based on Teleological ethics.Utilitarianism is a teleological ethical theory as it is concrned with conseuences rather than motives. Also it is concerned that the happiness of the greatest number should be the result. The value of the consequences of an action is assessed in terms of the amount of happiness or well-being caused.When you make choices which result in the correct consequences, then you are acting morally; when you make choices which result in the incorrect consequences, then you are acting immorally.

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