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Ethical Theoretical Analysis

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First, before I start this analysis, I would like to provide definitions of the theories and perspective, I am about to mention in this paper. Starting with the first dominant ethical theory, utilitarianism that states that your set of actions right or wrong evaluated through morality that can produce their own consequences. For example, the moral theory focuses on the consequences of the action of the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War 2. Henceforth, the action, as a result, the United States dropping the atomic bomb nearly wiped out Japanese towns ' populations entirely causing to end Japan’s quest for world domination. Next, the second dominant ethical theory, deontology that states the right

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