Name the goal and concrete action, clarify consent, consider significant consequences and unknowns; afterwards separate the result from earlier knowledge and choose available repair.
Questions explored
Does a good result justify sharing a private letter?
Not by itself. A useful outcome does not retrospectively create missing consent.
Does the ADC model prove a deed permissible?
No. The study describes scenario participants' ratings; normative grounds remain a separate question.
Can a deletion request guarantee that every copy has disappeared?
No, unless that is established. Name the completed step, recipient's response, and repair's limit honestly.
Key distinctions
Agent, deed, and consequence components relate to participants' ratings of brief scenarios; their weights depend on context. (Dubljević et al. 2018, selected experiment discussion, no normative inference)
A good intention and successful result do not replace consent to a particular disclosure of private information. (United Wisdom original ethical reasoning)
Wishing for an outcome differs from choosing available means. (Aristotle III.2–3 selected context)
Kant's treatment of humanity as an end excludes treating a person merely as a means, rather than prohibiting cooperation itself. (Kant Second Section selected humanity/promise context)
Limits of interpretation
- ADC experiments describe scenario ratings, not normative permission, moral diagnosis or tested exercise efficacy.
- Agent component includes character and intention; virtue ethics is not reduced to benign intent.
- 2018 correction notice read: tracked changes removed from supporting files; supplements not used.
- Historical selected passages only, not whole books; no worldwide translation reuse licence asserted.
- Consent boundaries and finite repair are original ethical author reasoning; no emergency or legal protocol.
Sources
- Deciphering moral intuition: How agents, deeds, and consequences influence moral judgment — Veljko Dubljević; Sebastian Sattler; Eric Racine
Publisher metadata/full abstract/rights lines149-159; Introduction/model and pretests lines164-213; selected Experiment1/2 design and outcomes lines242-326,327-375,435-450; conclusion lines464-478. Correction10.1371/journal.pone.0206750 full notice lines99-139 checked: tracked changes removed in supporting files, which are not used here.
Source use: OPEN_ACCESS_CC_BY_WITH_ATTRIBUTION
- Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle; English translation W.D.Ross
Publisher author/translator metadata and selected continuous BookII1-4, BookIII2-3 read. Whole book not claimed.
Source use: SELECTED_PARAPHRASE_ONLY_RIGHTS_NOT_UNIVERSALLY_ESTABLISHED
- The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) — Confucius/traditional compilation; English translation James Legge
Metadata translator/copyright and selected bounded passages with surrounding context read. No claim to complete Analects or modern alternative translations.
Source use: PUBLIC_DOMAIN_USA_SELECTED_PARAPHRASE_ONLY
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals — Immanuel Kant; English translation Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Metadata and selected continuous good-will/duty and humanity-as-end contexts read. Whole work and ThirdSection proof not claimed.
Source use: PUBLIC_DOMAIN_USA_SELECTED_PARAPHRASE_ONLY