Ethics Resource Center, "Three Quick Tests for Ethical Congruence"
Notable because it provides a checklist that might be useful in exigent circumstances, when there is no time for analysis
SOURCE FOR THE PROCEDURE
Ethics Resource Center. "Three Quick Tests for Ethical Congruence." 1998. http://www.lmco.com/erc/1-91b.html (9 Jun. 1999).
THE PROCEDURE ITSELF
- The self-test
- How does your stomach feel?
- Are you bothered or upset by the decision you are about to make?
- Do you have doubts?
- Do you wish you didn't have to choose?
- Is it frustrating to have to select one option over the others?
- The authority test
- How would you feel if your Mother were looking over your shoulder?
- How would you advise your own child to act in this same set of circumstances?
- The public scrutiny test
- Could you accept public review of the tradeoffs and compromises you made?
- Could you accept review by friends, neighbors and family?
WALT'S CHECKLIST
The same checklist was applied to all procedures.
- This method is most useful when the DECISION-MAKER ...
- is poised to act and merely wants to confirm the moral validity of the action
- This method is most useful in a SITUATION ...
- that is relatively simple
- where an immediate decision is required
