eapons shortened the war, and, thus, saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The winners of the war made that utilitarian assessment, not the losers.
The Japanese did not accept the utilitarian justification of the mass annihilation of civilians, and that refusal points up another two additional dilemmas associated with utilitarian evaluations. First, one person may consider an event as a good, while another considers the same event as a bad outcome. Second, to many people, a net positive outcome cannot justify what is, at its root, an unacceptable act.
Similarly, when making decisions, engineers must not fall into the trap of making ethical judgments only on the basis of narrow perspectives defined by the interests of their employers or of the needs of the specific project on which they are working. Rather, ethical decisions involve
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