Ethics and Values / Unit 5 Ethics 224 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rules Without Exceptions, Almost
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The idea
The working lesson of the absolutism debate: keep rules near-exceptionless, and admit an exception only when the rule's own rationale demands it.
In practice
A hospital's "never share patient data" bends for the one call that saves the patient — the rule's own purpose, protection, wrote the exception.
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