Important for all of society to follow the same

important for all of society to follow the same morals because we are all equal citizens, none
should be treated better than the other or have special privileges. With the same morals and
moral process people will be treated the same and will receive the same benefits.
Every individual can do what is most important to them or what benefits their group the
most. These prima facies can be contorted and used to help raise someone’s standards of
living, even if it’s at the expense of others. There is no specific method when deciding which
prima facies are most important and depending on the persons views on life they can consider
their money more important than the next meal of a homeless person.
Ross asks us to act upon more than one prima facie and synthesize the two most
important together to find our solution. Though at times that is nearly impossible, sometimes the
first prima facie and the second are conflicting resulting in them being unable to be synthesized.
This makes the moral deliberation extremely difficult and has the effects of having one of the
most important prima facies not be attended.
The lack of specification can make it difficult for a biomedical professional because they
can be in a situation where they’ve conflicting prima facies but one of the prima facies can
benefit the biomedical professional. This would be a personal vs professional conflict and the

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biomedical professional can choose which ever they prefer. If the professional were to choose
the option assisting the patient but then they receive damage, whether it be to their body or to
their reputation though it was in the best interest of the patient it may not be in the best interest
of the biomedical professional.
Doctor has a quarantined patient who needs this antidote immediately because they are
going into cardiac arrest but the doctor doesn’t have enough time to put on a hazmat suit. The
moral dilemma is to save the patient or to harm one self; these are conflicting moral decisions
and cannot be done together. This is an example of lack of specification in which we ask which
prima facies are most important, beneficence to the patient or non-malfeasance to myself? As
well an example of unable to synthesis because putting on the hazmat suit to save the doctor
will take too much time resulting in the patient dying but without the hazmat suit the doctor will
be exposed to the disease.