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All agree that moral issues are difficult issues mired in philosophical, political, social, and spiritual values. It's no wonder that the process of calculating moral positions has been likened to ``eating broth with a fork.'' While insuring moral behavior is difficult, teaching moral reasoning, a noble act, is even more difficult – especially when confronted by students who, by nature or discipline, are essentially objectivists dependant upon a need to structure what most will agree defies structure. This paper suggests one way the use of decision modeling may reach to moral objectivists in a classroom setting.
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Cahn, S., Pastore, J.M. Decision Modelling: An Objective Approach to Moral Reasoning. Teaching Business Ethics 7, 329–340 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:TEBE.0000005705.35440.3c
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