Ethical decisions are expressions of preference in the face of alternate actions that affect the lives of other human beings.
Ethical decisions are expressions of preference in the face of alternate actions that affect the lives of other human beings, and as such they are not determines by the knowledge of the consequences of the preferred action, but by the desire that the consequences of that action take place. Yet, for every human being, his subject dependent domain of knowledge constitutes his only basis for ethical decisions, because it determines the domain of alternatives over which he projects the world that he wants to validate with his actions. (CS 465)
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