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Hughes Obligatory

In this exercise, students are presented with the most severe version of Goodearl's decision, and asked to use Richard De George's criteria for whistleblowing to evaluate whether she is justified in blowing the whistle, or perhaps even morally obligated to blow the whistle.

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