ENGLI 1101 PROVIDE A BRIEF OVERVIEW CASE QUALIFIES ETHICAL ISSUE / TU ENGLI 1101 PROVIDE A BRIEF OVERVIEW CASE QUALIFIES

ENGLI 1101 provide a brief overview case qualifies
ethical issue
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There is a deep ethical dilemma in the Columbia shuttle disaster that's
been overlooked by both principals and commentators. Linda Ham
didn't recognize
it; neither did the Mission Management Team, or the Photo Working
Group, or the Program Manager for
Launch Integration, or the Debris Assessment Team,
or commentators like Donovan and Green or Davisor, perhaps, they
somehow subliminally recognized it
but all assumed it should be decided in the same way.
There was a genuine moral issue here. Assume
that, as soon as the photos were taken, it became
apparent that the tile damage was much greater than
on any previous mission, Indeed, let us suppose that
the gravity of the situation was fully recognizedby ground control.
There didn't seem to be any way
out-once the shuttle was aloft, it wouldn't have
been possible to dock with the space station, and
it wouldn't have been possible to rescue the astronauts. This might
lead us to think that, as Linda Ham
apparently did, "there isn't anything I can do."
But there is something of significant ethical
importance that you could do; the question is whether
you should do it or not. After all, as we're assuming,
you know there is a high probability that the astronauts will die on
reentry-but they don't know it.
Would you tell them? Ham, and apparently all others, have assumed
no. Yet this is not at all obvious,
and indeed different ethical approaches to the question may yield
quite different answers.
We might wonder, to begin with, what it is about