"...Right-versus-wrong choices are very different from right versus-right ones. The latter reach inward to our most profound and central values, setting one against the other in ways that will never be resolved simply by pretending that one is “wrong.”
Right-versus-wrong choices, by contrast, offer no such depth: The closer you get to them, the more they begin to smell. Two shorthand terms capture the differences: If we can call right versus - right choices “ethical dilemmas,” we can reserve the phrase “moral temptations” for the right-versus-wrong ones"
They are:
"The really tough choices, then, don’t center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values. Four such dilemmas are so common to our experience that they stand as models, patterns, or paradigms.
They are:
• Truth versus loyalty
• Individual versus community
• Short-term versus long-term
• Justice versus mercy"
(Found in:
HOW GOOD PEOPLE MAKE TOUGH CHOICES
RESOLVING THE DILEMMAS OF ETHICAL LIVING
by Rushworth M. Kidder)
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