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Ethics Of Care: Virtue Analysis

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Current data demonstrates that individuals make an average of 221 food related decisions in a day (Wansink & Sobal, 2007). Do you use bar-b-que sauce or ranch? Do you eat one cookie or five cookies? Though these choices include what you consume, when, and how much, they are trivial in nature because they are based on personal preference. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that individuals will also have to make more challenging decisions, forcing them to consider what is “right, good, virtuous or just” (Cahn, 2013, p. 3). Although there are multiple perspectives which can be employed to address problems of this nature, this piece will demonstrate how the Virtue of Ethics and the Ethics of Care utilize character traits to guide moral decision

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