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Ethical Decision-Making in a Pluralistic World: Frameworks and Tools for Value-Based Priorities

In a diverse world of value pluralism, ethical decision-making requires respectful consideration of differing values to gain acceptance for policies with ethical ramifications. This commentary explores the need for frameworks and processes that provide ethical guidance, such as ethical committees and consensus-building tools. The Ethical Matrix, an effective tool in agricultural ethics, evaluates well-being, autonomy, and justice, taking into account a wide range of stakeholder interests. It serves as a foundation for democratic deliberation, helping to navigate the complexities of ethical scenarios and their consequences.

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Ethical Decision-Making in a Pluralistic World: Frameworks and Tools for Value-Based Priorities

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  1. Value pluralism and decision making A comment

  2. Setting value based priorities in a world of value pluralism • Different values must be respected and must to be taken into account if decisions with ethical consequences are to be accepted • Policy decisions may need ethical justification for acceptance—who and how • Ethical committees, advising governments international organizations • Frameworks/process to provide ethical guidance in decision process • Ethical delphi/consensus/ ethical matrix and many others

  3. Deciding how to decide • No single generic framework that can be used to assess and manage ethical issues across all technologies/issues or over the life-cycle of these • Key Framework characteristics for deliberations • Democratic deliberation • ethical pluralism • Ethical Matrix fulfills these characteristics as does the ethical delphi, consensus groups • (Beauchamps et Childress, 1979, 2001 , Mepham 1995,2005)

  4. Ethical Matrix: an ethical tool in food and agricultural ethics • Well being, autonomy and justice—columns • Specific definitions are a function of the issue • Stakeholders/interest groups -- rows • Broad range of interest groups • Applications: biotechnology acceptance/taxes/

  5. Ethical matrix example: future challenges of fisheries in Norway • Question: to enforce a special tax for the usage of common resources like sea and coastline. • Future consequences of measure not uniquely economic potential • Basic uncertainty about future developments/cc/ • Ethical scenarios---future scenarios and ethical consequences of each

  6. Ethical scenario process • Acceptable consequence: does not violate priority values and respects as many values as possible. • Mapping of values and weighting of them • Pluses(respected values),minuses(violated values),and zeros(values not relevant)

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