Instruction
Analyze the following case according to the three normative theories we discussed this term: utilitarianism (act), deontology and virtue theory. In other words, provide an argument, from each of the position identified above, that explain why the actions of Smith in the below scenario are either considered right or wrong.
Smith is a social worker in a hospital when he get a new case: a woman has come in very illand the cause of her illness is unknown. Smith has been told that the patient is getting worse, and then she is in need of a liver transplant. The patient's husband has offered to be the donor, and given that he and his wife match all of the medical requirements she will not go into organ rejection if she receives part of his liver. Smith is tasked with interviewing both the patient and the donor to assess their psychological health and prepare them for the organ transplant procedure. In the course of interviewing the patient, Smith discovers that the wife was planning to file for divorce and has been cheating on the husband. Smith doesn't have a professional obligation to tell the donor what he has found out about the patient, but he might have a moral one to let the donor know he will be donating his organ to a partner that has been dishonest with him. But, if Smith does tell the donor, it is likely the donor will decided not to give some of his liver to his wife, and she will die in the very near future because it is unlikely she will receive part of the organ from another donor. In the end, Smith decides to keep the information to himself, and allow the husband to donate his organ, even though the patienthis wifehas been cheating and planning to leave him.
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