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Cost–benefit analysis in engineering ethics is most closely associated with which ethical theory?

1. Virtue ethics
2. Deontology
3. Divine command theory
4. Utilitarianism

Answer

D. Utilitarianism

Solution

It weighs the consequences (benefits and costs) of alternatives.

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