Read the brief article from the November/December 2001 issue of Mother Jones entitled “Surgical Strike.” To access this article, click on the link below. After reading and reflecting on this article, please address the following in your essay:

Read the brief article from the November/December 2001 issue of Mother Jones entitled “Surgical Strike.” To access this article, click on the link below. After reading and reflecting on this article, please address the following in your essay:

1) What is the ethical dilemma here? Describe it in your own words.
2) Who are the stakeholders in this ethical dilemma? That is, who has something to lose or win, and why?
3) Analyze and evaluate the dilemma from the perspectives of Divine Command Theory, Egoism, Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, and Natural Law.
4) Explain which line of reasoning is the most plausible. Defend your answer in terms of the criteria of adequacy of moral theories presented on pp. 72-76 of the textbook.

All sources must have scholarly credentials (i.e., No websites allowed!!!). Only books from academic presses and/or scholarly journal articles may be used. Any material used in the paper must be cited appropriately (even the textbook).

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