Reflect on what you think the following ethical theories would tell you to do in this situation.

Assignment Directions
Below you will find the description of what appears to be a morally relevant scenario.
You are tasked with determining what each of the primary ethical theories would recommend one do in
such a situation, and you are to explain and offer an argument in defense of what you would actually do.
Create a document where you answer the questions.
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Scenario
You are an editor of a newspaper and have been given photographs of American soldiers
celebrating and doing unsavory things over a pile of dismembered enemy bodies which include
children. In addition, the photographs are 7 years old. Further, the soldiers in the picture are
directly responsible for winning the war that put an end to the oppression of the people in the
opposing land. The oppression included slavery. Also, you possess the only existing copies of these
photographs.
The Question: Do you post these pictures in your paper?
1. Reflect on what you think the following ethical theories would tell you to do in this situation. Write at
least one full paragraph for each ethical theory describing what they would recommend and why.
Utilitarianism (The Originals: Classic Readings in Western Philosophy – Mill On
Utilitarianism, pp.282 295)
Kantian/Deontological Ethics (The Originals: Classic Readings in Western
Philosophy – Kant On Moral Principles, pp.262 272.)
Aristotelian Virtue Ethics (The Originals: Classic Readings in Western Philosophy –
Aristotle On Virtue, pp.231 250)
2. Explain what you would actually do, and why (you need not fall in line with one of the ethical theories
your decision is your own, but you must offer an argument in defense of the decision you make).

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