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Essay / Kantian Ethical Dilemma Theory - 846
Every person has moral values and follows some type of personalized moral code. Nursing assistants and other professionals have a duty to care for their patients/clients, help those in need, and be held accountable. According to the mentioned scenario, is the parent considered a thief because he took the medicines from the hospital without any consent or proof of purchase. Is this scenario cut, dry and simple? Using the Kantian theory of ethics, you can easily argue that the parent's actions in the scenario were not justified. Kant's idea is that the categorical imperative should be used as a tool to determine right or wrong actions. Overall, it basically states that you should not perform any action that you would not want to be a universal law. Essentially, you shouldn't do anything that you wouldn't want someone else to do. Thinking back to universal law, based on Kant's theory, his approach when referring to theft would be that theft is wrong and unacceptable regardless of the case. The problem with this theory is that it leaves no room for the unknown, variables, or life-threatening situations. The decisions we make in life are not as simple as Kant's theory of ethics..