#21 - Ethicist: As a function of one's job and societal role

[nivernova]

Can we ignore answer choices that one "should not" fulfill one's duty??

because it's a sufficient condition of the contrapositive of the principle

i.e) Should not fulfill -> Overwhelming evidence

and overwhelming evidence, which is a condition necessary, doesn't GUARANTEE that a duty should not be performed(Sufficient).

Based on this reasoning, I eliminated B,C and E.

Was I right in doing so?

[Rachael Wilkenfeld]

Hi nivernova,

I would certainly start with ones that focus on situations where we "should" fulfill a duty. Our conditional relationship makes "fulfilling a duty" the necessary condition, so we want to find situations where that occurs. However, they could look to the contrapositive of the conditional statement (if you shouldn't fulfill a duty, then you must have overwhelming evidence of disastrous consequences). I would read all five answer choices, but focus my attention on the ones that draw a conclusion that the person should fulfill their duty.

Good work!