I agree that it is necessary to provide students with a protocol and a framework for thinking through an ethical dilemma. My problem is not algorithmic thinking, but just emotional reactions. Students will just state their opinion, and then say everyone's opinion counts. I'm not confident they are learning anything in the class. I was asking them to use a specification model I found in Beauchamp and Childress, in which they have to state the principle they are invoking, like autonomy or beneficence, and then specifying this principle into first rules and then judgments.
I agree that it is necessary to provide students with a protocol and a framework for thinking through an ethical dilemma. My problem is not algorithmic thinking, but just emotional reactions. Students will just state their opinion, and then say everyone's opinion counts. I'm not confident they are learning anything in the class. I was asking them to use a specification model I found in Beauchamp and Childress, in which they have to state the principle they are invoking, like autonomy or beneficence, and then specifying this principle into first rules and then judgments.