Consequentialists and Deontologists

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Consequentialists and Deontologists
In recent years there has been an increase in the application of ethics in most fields. Most organizations are trying to employ ethics since it will help to protect their brand image. Even though there are different types of ethics, one common one is normative ethics which investigates varying questions about how a person should behave in a certain moral sense. Despite normative ethics theories having various ethics, the most outstanding ones are Consequentialism and deontological ethics. The main reason the following ethics are outstanding is that they have disputing perspectives, making the person struggle to fulfill both.
Consequentialism usually evaluates whether the person is morally right by looking at the consequence. In most instances, despite the process that will be followed, the Consequentialists will view an action as morally right by only having the best consequences compared to the available alternatives (Consequentialism 1). In most instances, this approach ignores the process followed to attain the outcome but only bases the whole judgment according to the outcome. When using these ethics, the person does not need to act with "pretty good" consequences, which have more good than harm or are better than average. In most instances, the action will only be supposed to be the best among the alternatives (Kagan 61). The action can vary in morality as the available alternatives vary.
On the other hand, deontological ethics usually base morality on whether the action the person is taking is following the set of principles that have already been set. Deontological ethics does not check the outcome that the action is likely to have, varying from Consequentialism ethics. To decide whether the action is morally right, the individuals usually check whether the action is likely to have. Furthermore, even when there are various alternatives, it can be morally wrong even when it has the best consequence as long as it does not adhere to the already set rules and principles.
In recent years the world has been experiencing technological advancements by a great margin. One of the areas that have experienced this boost is the transport industry. For instance, people are currently enjoying self-driving cars. Even though these cars are expected to make life easier, most people put it on the ethics lens. The consequentialists are working on the principle that the action will be moral based on the other alternatives available. For example, the consequentialists will be basing their actions based on the daily scenarios that will be surrounding them. Therefore, these ethics suggest that self-driving cars will be considered moral because they will offer the best consequence in every alternative.
For instance, the consequentialists highlight that the self-driving car could be moral if it can make the optimum decisions. Therefore, the following individuals advocate that the following process will be outstanding since the cars will use AI to make daily decisions. As long as the following AI successfully offers the optimum decisions, this invention will be moral. One of the claims of self-driving cars is that they will help to reduc...