Devry University Deontological Ethics Case Study

What criticism(s) do you have regarding Deontological ethics? Explain why. You may, but need not, use this scenario about Portia to illustrate your critique(s). Post in a threaded manner responding to a classmate’s post to this question.

What criticism(s) do you have regarding Deontological ethics? Explain why. You may, but need not, use this scenario about Portia to illustrate your critique(s). Post in a threaded manner responding to a classmate’s post to this question.

That’s the question.

And this is what my classmate written about it

Portia is a legal secretary hired with the understanding that all office information will be confidential. Her boss, a criminal lawyer in a large city, defends a man accused of vicious attacks on several elderly women. In the course of her work, Portia learns that the accused has told her boss that he committed the crimes and feels no remorse. A plea of “not guilty” is being entered, and there is a good chance the man will serve no time for his crimes. What, if anything, should Portia do?

Hello Class!

Portia I believe should continue the fight on proving him guilty considering she learned he admitted being the abuser. Given it might be hard to obtain the evidence. Regardless morally from my stand point if so said has admitted to the crime and no one else is being accused nor considered a possible suspect. She should fight to prove him guilty. Then again from another stand point you have the idea of the the boss being a Lawyer makes it extremely hard to think about the logic behind his reason on claiming the accused not guilty. Also him having such a large status as a lawyer in a situation like this would make it hard for her to defend herself in this matter. Truthfully she should figure out more information behind the matter before pushing for any extremes.